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| | A | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Complete NEPA Compliance | The NEPA Checklist must be completed prior implementation of specified work elements. | | |
| | B | 191 | Watershed Coordination | Cooperate with other Tribal projects and local agencies to maximize restoration benefits | This Project must interact with other projects and agencies to ensure restoration and conservation efforts are consistent with one another and complement each other's activities. This Project will continually interact with the Hangman Fisheries Project (BPA Project #2001-032-00) and the Albeni Falls Mitigation Project (Project #1992-061-06) to ensure consistency between projects. But will also interact with BPA Project #1990-044-00 to ensure consistency in data gathering and restoration techniques. Also, coordinating restoration efforts with the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's Wildlife Program on properties purchased in the Hangman Watershed as mitigation for Avista licensing of Post Falls Dam will expand habitat improvement efforts well beyond the property purchased for BPA Wildlife Mitigation. Interacting with the Spokane Conservation District as well as the Benewah Conservation District to implement conservation projects and practices will improve native fish habitat in the Hangman Watershed by assisting in restoring the natural hydrologic cycle. | | |
| | C | 189 | Coordination-Columbia Basinwide | Coordinate Efforts with regional partners | Regional relationships will be maintained by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe Wildlife Program Manager and the Hangman Restoration Project Manager. The Program and Project Managers will attend regional manager's meetings facilitated by UCUT, NPCC, CBFWA, BPA and other agencies, as well as interact with local agencies and groups that participate in management and restoration activities relevant to the Hangman Restoration Project. | | |
| | D | 114 | Identify and Select Projects | Identify & select lands within priority areas where conservation partnerships can be developed | Much of the Hangman Project Priority Area is within private ownership. Landowner agreements will be sought that allow the implementation of restoration activities on lands that currently do not support native habitats. The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CCRP) may be used with landowner agreements to improve habitats within the Project Area. CRP and CCRP have the potential to enrich and/or restore extensive fish and wildlife habitats within the Hangman Watershed. To date, the Project has been able to partner with NRCS/FSA on five properties in the Hangman Watershed to implement restoration activities within priority areas. These properties encompass 61.44 acres were restoration efforts can be implemented with minimal costs, and they demonstrate the potential of this process. FY2018 efforts will continue the search for willing landowners and new partnership opportunities through either Natural Resource Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency conservation programs or similar programs. | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | E | 172 | Conduct Pre-Acquisition Activities | Exclude uplands within the hnt'k'wipn Management Area in favor of additional floodplain acreage | Upland acreages within the hnt'k'wipn Management Area do not fit well with the objectives of wildlife mitigation for Albeni Falls. Also, portions of Hangman Floodplain areas that could contribute more strongly to Albeni Falls Wildlife Mitigation as well as stream flows and in-stream habitats for fish in Hangman Creek have been identified. Appraisals completed in FY2014 were used specifically to identify properties more suitable for Mitigation Management than the uplands within the hnt'k'wipn Management Area. A relinquishment of management rights trade of the conservation easement off of uplands unsuitable for Wildlife Mitigation and encouraging improved base flows for a conservation easement on Priority Area floodplain habitats would benefit BPA's Mitigation Program. Surveys and legal descriptions of Hangman upland and floodplain areas owned by the Tribe that are suited for a trade were completed in FY2016. In FY2017, all preliminary preparations will be in place to complete the trade of the conservation easement on approximately 390 acres of uplands for a conservation easement on approximately 520 acres of floodplain that is better suited to Wildlife Mitigation.
This Work Element has been ongoing for a number of years as tasks association with negotiations, appraisals, legal surveys, Tribal and BPA approval have been completed. As of the writing of this Scope of Work, there was a high probability that the trade would be completed by the end of FY2017. However, if the trade is not completed as hoped and expected, completion of the trade will be | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | F | 115 | Produce Inventory or Assessment | Determine immediate threats to integrity of habitats within Project Sites | Habitat degradation within the several project sites can occur from stochastic events (such as wildfires), noxious weed invasion, or through unapproved, abusive use of the property. The properties must be surveyed frequently to identify threats and devise strategies to neutralize those threats to the extent possible. The exact timing of quarterly surveys will vary depending on weather and work schedules but will occur at least once a quarter. No ground disturbance is anticipated or planned during these property security assessments. | Trout, Rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss) | Wildlife |
| | G | 27 | Remove Debris | Remove scrap debris from past use or from illegal dumping | As debris or illegally dumped garbage is encountered within Project Areas during inspection or during restoration activities it will be removed and disposed of appropriately. | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | H | 188 | Provide Access and Public Information | Maintain and/or establish access to the Project Areas | While the management plan does not encourage the access and use of the hnt'k'wipn Management Area, it does not deny access and use that causes no harm to the native fish and wildlife habitats. Access points and property boundaries will remain properly marked and gates and fences maintained to reflect professional management. This Project is not responsible for access management on Project Sites other than the hnt'k'wipn Management Area. The focus on these subsidiary Project Sites will be to ensure Project Activities don't encourage access, No ground disturbance is anticipated or planned during these property security assessments. | | |
| | I | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Plant trees and shrubs according to pertinent management plans | Establishment of native vegetation is a primary step in establishing the full complement of native floodplain habitats, which will in turn promote wetland characteristics in the Hangman Floodplain and contribute toward the optimum stream habitats for native redband. In FY2017, native deciduous tree and shrub tall-one nursery stock will be purchased and planted using 4 inch augers within previously established temporary exclosures within the hnt'k'wipn Management Area. Native deciduous tree and shrub nursery stock in tall-one containers will also be planted in the Isom, A434, A64, Workley Rockpit (F1036) and the A485 Project Sites. | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | J | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Minimize the presence of noxious weeds on managed properties | Noxious weeds will be controlled on properties managed by the Hangman Restoration Project by 1) crop production within the hnt'k'wipn Management Area that await restoration activities in out years, 2) chemical herbicide (aminopyralid/2,4-D(amines) with Activate adjuvant) treatments within hnt'k'wipn, the Isom Property, A434, A485 and A64, where noxious weeds are unwanted competition for native vegetation, and 3) mowing and seed source removal of approximately 350 acres of the hnt'k'wipn Management Area where Vententata dubia is a problem. | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | K | 190 | Remove, Exclude and/or Relocate Animals | Establish and maintain temporary fences to protect planted native vegetation | Native deciduous trees and shrubs have been planted to increase terrestrial habitat complexity, increase channel stability, and provide food and building materials for beaver. Those plantings must be protected until they are fully established and can tolerate browsing. In the past, small space protection has been established for clusters of native deciduous shrubs and trees by using 16 foot long livestock panels that are made from four gage wire. Livestock panels were placed in pairs with the ends tied together and the middle separated to form a small exclosure. Large, long term exclosures that are approximately 100 yards by 100 yards were constructed of 7 foot high woven wire nailed to posts to form four rectangular and one triangular structures. In addition, large protective exclosures were established to protect FY2015, and FY2016 plantings. This exclusionary fencing was established to ensure plants attain growth that will withstand browse. The increased costs of livestock panels prohibits their continued use, however, deer fencing is quite effective and will be used to create larger exclosures. Wire mesh deer fencing, 6.5ft tall, is more difficult to erect and move then livestock panels but is within Project budget limitations. The larger deer fence exclosures will be further expanded in FY2018 to encompass any fresh plantings not protected within existing exclosures. | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | L | 29 | Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity | Maintain benefits of reinforced beaver dams and minimize conflicts that may arise from beaver activity. | Beaver dams in the Hangman Watershed are small and do not persist through the annual hydrologic cycle because of the extreme high flow conditions of late winter / early spring. The work of reinforcing beaver dams in the John Day Watershed encouraged the Hangman Restoration Project Wildlife staff to experiment beginning in 2014 with installing wooden fence posts in beaver dams to promote their persistence through the annual flashy hydrologic cycle. Persistence of beaver dams is key to improving habitat for native redband trout throughout the Project Area and in dampening the extreme fluctuations in the annual hydrologic cycle. With the success of the limited number of dams over succeeding years, additional dams were reinforced in FY2017 with a KAPD23 hydraulic post driver setting 3 inch posts into active beaver dams within project sites. Reinforced dams will be inspected in FY2018 and additional reinforcement will be added, if needed.
Problems that result from beaver activity, such as plugging road culverts or flooding private property, will be managed by constructing exclusionary devices that limit a beaver's ability to either construct a dam at a specific location or a dam that impounds water to a damaging level. | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | M | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Evaluate survival of Project plantings | Planting native trees, shrubs and grasses is one of the primary means by which this Project improves habitats for native fish and wildlife. Evaluations must be made annually of the success rates of plantings in order to adjust species to location and improve planting techniques. Counts of shrub and tree planting survival and estimates of native grass cover are required to make the needed evaluations. Evaluations will focus on FY2017 and FY2016 plantings and no ground disturbance is anticipated or planned during these planting survival survey assessments. | Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) | Wildlife |
| | N | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and administer project | Ensure completion of all FY2018 Work Elements and Milestones and prepare for FY2019.
This work element covers administrative and technical work to fulfill BPA's programmatic and contractual requirements such as financial reporting (accruals), and development of a contract renewal package (includes SOW, budget, property inventory).
May also include:
• Administer subcontractor paperwork: Read all BPA contract terms and conditions including all contract clauses that are required to flow down into subcontracts in preparation for subcontract negotiation. Upload confidential copy of subcontracts to Pisces no later than 30 days from date of subcontractor signature.
• Submit monthly invoices electronically within 45 days: Contractor's Contract Manager should review all charges included in contract invoices to ensure they are allowable, allocable, and consistent with the approved line-item budget. For contracts with subcontracts, invoices and associated supporting backup must be submitted electronically within 90 days of the end of the month in which costs were incurred. Subcontracts should be written to include requirements for timely submission of invoices from the subcontractor.
• Track inventory: If equipment is purchased, Tag all equipment purchased during the contract. If you are not a government entity with required procedures for what does, and does not have to be tagged, please follow requirements in the standardized language of your contract and with any additional clarity as provided by BPA’s Contracting Officer if you have questions.
• If electronic equipment is purchased, dispose of electronic waste in accordance with state and local jurisdiction, laws, and policies: Confirm that adequate waste identification and collection procedures are in place and proper disposal practices are followed according to your governmental policy. If you do not have a policy, please contact your CO and/or COTR for guidance. The purpose is to keep hazardous materials from entering the normal waste stream, becoming land-fill, or being boot-legged into unregulated re-processing and/or metals extraction. E-Waste usually includes: batteries, light ballasts, fluorescent tubes and bulbs, modems, routers, computers, and all equipment with electronic components. For current EPA guidance, please see: http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/ecycling/rules.htm
• Administer subcontractor paperwork: Read all BPA contract terms and conditions. Include all BPA contract clauses that are required to flow down into subcontracts in preparation of subcontracts. Upload confidential copy of subcontracts to Pisces no later than 30 days from date of subcontractor signature.
• Attach documents that support TERO (Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance) duties: In instances where it is anticipated that TERO will be charged, the following are required: All budgets must clearly identify the type of work, amount, and location(s) of the subcontract work, along with the TERO rate (%) and amount for each subcontract, and cumulative projected TERO fee. Invoices must clearly indicate any amount that is being charged for each subcontract (to which TERO is being applied), the percentage being applied, and the amount for that specific subcontract, consistent with the Budget (so as to allow adequate invoice review).
• Prepare FY2019 Scope of Work and establish contract for FY2019 Work Elements. Preparation for FY2019 Scope of Work includes initiating steps to gain Environmental Clearance for FY2019 Work Elements. | | |
| | O | 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. | | |
| | P | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Annual Report Required | A report for the 2017 performance period will be completed to describe actions and the results of those actions.. A review of the changes, setbacks and accomplishments will be completed as well as an analysis and presentation of the gathered data. | | |
| | Q | 99 | Outreach and Education | Involve students and inform public of Hangman Restoration Project activities | Continue to contribute articles to public newsletters, participate in public meetings and educational forums as part of the ongoing public outreach for the Hangman Restoration Project. | | |
