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| A | 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. | | |
| B | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance | This project is concerned with coordinating the fieldwork of other agencies participating in the ISEMP and with outreach to disseminate information about the ISEMP. It does not require NOAA, USFWS, or WDFW permits as there is no "take" of fish. As such Environmental Compliance permits are not appropriate in this case. | | |
| C | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Entiat habitat restoration project monitoring | The agencies and stakeholders involved in restoring the Entiat River subbasin have endorsed the Entiat Intensively Monitored Watershed (IMW), an approach that calls for habitat restoration actions to be implemented in a spatially and temporally explicit manner (an Entiat IMW is required under the 2008 BiOp RPA 57.1 and seeks to determine whether a suite of instream habitat actions designed to improve habitat for listed salmonids and steelhead are effective). This approach to restoration action implementation and monitoring requires significant coordination, facilitation and support for the many agencies and stakeholders involved in restoring the Entiat River. This work element supports a technical and coordination position at the CCD that is essential to the successful implementation of the Entiat IMW. The purpose of this position is to provide technical and coordination assistance for the implementation of the Entiat IMW in support of the Entiat Watershed Planning Unit.
Duties of this position include:
1. Project Management Coordination
This position will oversee the implementation of the Entiat IMW. This will require keeping partners informed, overseeing, supporting, and facilitating the decision making processes for the Entiat, and acting with the authority of a program leader and taking responsibility to facilitate decision making when consensus isn't readily reached.
2. Project Figurehead for Entiat IMW
a. This position will provide a single point of contact regarding monitoring, project implementation, outreach, and project design work in the Entiat and will disseminate information and provide outreach to a broad range of Entiat stakeholders. b. The position will communicate effectively with landowners in the Entiat to keep them apprised of activities under the IMW and other partners’ work as is relates to the Entiat IMW and work to recruit new landowners and increase support for the Entiat IMW.
c. Serve as a spokesperson for all aspects of Entiat IMW and coordinate the updates to the Entiat Implementation Schedule in partnership with the Upper Columbia Implementation Team Leader and various other requests from private, state and federal partners.
3. ISEMP and UCSRB Coordination
This position will work with the ISEMP and the UCSRB Data Steward to implement the IMW framework to advance project implementation, monitoring and adaptive management efforts in the Entiat
a. Coordinate with ISEMP team and support all aspects of the Entiat IMW.
b. Take responsibility to develop the Entiat IMW outreach letter (2x per year) per BPA contract—and mail it to key stakeholders
c. Interface as opportunities arise (public meetings) with landowners to further the Entiat IMW in conjunction with the Wenatchee/Entiat ISEMP coordinator. | 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 | Habitat Survey Outreach | Outreach and education to specific landowners about habitat survey and request access permission to conduct physical habitat surveys on private land. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened) | Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi) |
| E | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Interagency coordination and outreach | Coordinate with Washington Department of Ecology (WDOE) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to identify various survey sites and conduct reconnaissance of site feasibility.
Conduct specific outreach for additional projects that may arise in the future, for example outreach for PIT tag detection arrays. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| F | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | CCD Integrated Status & Effectiveness Monitoring | Covers work by the contractor to manage and administer on the ground efforts associated with the project. Also covers administrative work in support of on the ground efforts and in support of BPA's programmatic requirements such as monthly Pisces reports, metric reporting, financial reporting (e.g., accruals), and development of an SOW package (includes draft SOW, budget, spending plan, and property inventory). | | |
| G | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit CCD final (annual) report for the period of performance | A final (annual) report will be prepared for this contract following the guidance listed under the "deliverable specification" section. | | |