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| | A | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Pre-work for FY09 contract | Assemble, gather, acquire, or prepare documents in support of obtaining environmental compliance from BPA (such as filling out a NEPA Checklist, providing maps, obtaining permits, conducting public involvement activities, completing an archaeological survey, etc.). Ensure a compliance letter has been received, or is still valid, prior to commencing any affected work.
This project does not require NOAA, USFWS, or WDFW permits, as we do not "take" fish. | | |
| | B | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Overall Project Management | Manage on-the-ground efforts. Also covers administrative work in support of on-the-ground efforts and in support of BPA's programmatic requirements such as metric reporting, financial reporting (e.g., accruals), and development of an SOW package (includes draft SOW, budget, spending plan, and property inventory). | | |
| | C | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Steelhead redd surveys | Complete steelhead redd surveys that will be conducted at 25 sites approximately every 2 weeks, from approximately March 1 through June 30 depending on environmental conditions. This contract covers the last three of four surveys that began around March 1. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | D | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Snorkel surveys | Collect fish population data at 50 status and trend sites in the Wenatchee subbasin using day snorkeling in the summer and assist in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in data collection at up to 30 effectiveness sites in the Entiat subbasin in the fall (night snorkeling) following the snorkeling protocol.
Survey Protocol and Data Gathered: Fish will be surveyed by direct observation using single-pass snorkeling as described by Thurow (1994). Up to 10 snorkelers and 1 shore tender (when necessary) will conduct the surveys. Survey crews will enter the downstream end of the designated sampling site and snorkel as unit in an upstream direction to the end of that site. If working at night, glow sticks or other visible markers will be affixed near the applicable benchmarks prior to each survey to assist crews in defining the sample site.
All USFS staff involved with this survey work will be trained in snorkeling methods and have prior snorkeling experience. Snorkeling will be done in dry suits. Data will be recorded by each diver on a PVC cuff secured to their arm and transferred to a datasheet at the end of habitat units. Snorkelers will be positioned across the stream channel so as to cover the entire channel. The distance between snorkelers must be sufficient to clearly survey the areas between each snorkeler and/or between snorkeler and the stream bank. Water temperature and turbidity will be taken at the start of each survey.
All fish observed will be counted by species and assigned to a size class. In status and trend sites the number of fish will be tallied by site and in effectiveness monitoring sites the number of fish will be tallied by habitat unit. These habitat units will be identified jointly by USFWS, Terraqua Inc., and WDOE habitat crews.
References: Thurow, R.F. 1994. Underwater methods for study of salmonids in the Intermountain West. Gen. Tech. Report INT-GTR-307. USDA, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. Ogden, UT. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | E | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Entiat subbasin temperature and sediment data | The Entiat Ranger District collects water temperature data from data loggers to record continuous water temperature data at 30-minute intervals at 30 stations in the Entiat and Mad Rivers, collects and process 60 spawning gravel samples from the Entiat and Mad Rivers to determine percent fines <1.0 mm and <0.85 mm. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | F | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Annual Report | Produce an annual report per the specifications listed, and submit to NOAA Fisheries via Terraqua, Inc, and copy BPA. | | |
| | G | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Periodic Status Reports for BPA | The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COTR. Additionally, when indicating a deliverable milestone as COMPLETE, the contractor shall provide metrics and the final location (latitude and longitude) prior to submitting the report to the BPA COTR. | | |
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