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Contract 84045 REL 15: 1994-015-00 EXP IDAHO FISH SCREENING IMPROVEMENT

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	Sort Order	WE ID	Work Element Name	Title	Description	Primary Focal Species	Secondary Focal Species


	A	119	Manage and Administer Projects	Routine Administration of Contract	Project oversight and management work related to the administration this contract. Supervise staff. Manage individual projects identified in this contract. Provide financial accounting. Build Statements of Work, Budgets, Inventories, and submit Accruals as required. Report on all activities in the format prescribed.
	B	165	Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation	Complete Environmental Compliance	Perform comprehensive cultural surveys in accordance with approved standards and practices in support of NEPA documentation for fish screens and fish passage projects. This work will be supplied by contract consultant. Perform biological assessments, prepare documentation, and consult with the proper agencies for an ESA Section 7 Informal Consultation for all diversion improvement projects identified in the SOW within anadromous waters occupied by ESA listed species. Prepare and submit routine regulatory paperwork including NEPA compliance checklists, SHPO required documents, CWA Section 404 permits, State and Federal special use permit applications, construction permits, and special validations.
	C	99	Outreach and Education	Communicate and coordinate with participants in habitat projects - Salmon Region	Hold and attend meetings with interested publics and agencies to identify potential fish habitat improvement projects, prepare proposals for funding, review and prioritize projects and proposals, coordinate activities, and implement fish habitat improvement projects. Habitat Biologist communicates and coordinates with all stakeholders, including being the initial contact and project lead for soliciting participation and project development on private property. Prioritization of habitat projects is based on many data sources and recovery plans including identification and documentation of high density spawning and rearing areas, mapped designated critical habitat, and addressing habitat limiting factors in site specific locations. Although many of these watersheds (Pahsimeroi River/North Fork Salmon River) are not sampled as extensively as other subbasins (Lemhi River) and are not an identified Intensively Monitored Watersheds, these populations are critical to recovery efforts for Chinook salmon, steelhead, bull trout, and westslope cutthroat trout in the upper Salmon River Basin. This biologist position communicates and coordinates with all project partners, especially landowners, and regulatory agencies, NMFS, USFWS, CoE, IDWR, and BPA Environmental Staff in development of preliminary designs and moving through the permitting and final design processes. Potential projects are prioritized, developed, and ranked prior to soliciting funding in the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Project’s Technical Team Subcommittees consists of large interagency teams of biologists, hydrologists, land managers, State and Federal Regulatory agencies, and including Contract Officers and Environmental Staff for BPA.
	D	114	Identify and Select Projects	Develop preliminary plans, projects, and proposals - Salmon Region	Develop preliminary habitat improvement plans, projects and proposals. Review plans and make recommendations for funding. Includes coordination with other agencies. Habitat restoration projects are ranked and prioritized in the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Projects’ Technical Team by local fisheries and hydrologic experts in State, Federal, and partner non-governmental agencies that are familiar with specific subbasins and watersheds. Each project is presented to the subcommittee (Lemhi River, Pahsimeroi River, North Fork Salmon River) for discussions about merit and prioritization with the group for the habitat improvement action in improving production and survival all life stages of Chinook salmon, steelhead, and bull trout. Then a conceptual design is created with engineers, and then the project is brought back to the USBWP Technical Team for review, ranking, and comments. The comments that are received during the Tech Team meeting are then integrated into the design moving forward for pursuing potential funding.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)	Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)
	E	191	Watershed Coordination	Agency Project Coordination	Meet with all stakeholders, assign specific project tasks that will lead to a project proposal. Coordinate with various agencies to ensure interest and viability of potential projects. Allow opportunity for all stakeholders to understand the interconnectivity of their projects and ensure projects do not clash in terms of outcomes. Identify opportunities to enhance aquatic natural resources within the Pahsimeroi River subbasin, Lemhi River tributaries, and mainstem Salmon River tributaries. Work with Tribes, BoR, OSC, USFWS, NRCS, local conservation districts, NGO's and stakeholders to identify problems and solutions within the watershed. Coordinate with agencies, stakeholders, and other entities on restoration and enhancement efforts to prevent duplication and enhance communication and cooperation. Work with landowners, interest groups and agencies to research and identify funding and cost share opportunities.
	F	191	Watershed Coordination	Conduct Meetings for Restoration Planning	Develop preliminary plans, projects and proposals. Includes coordination meetings with other agencies and private landowners.
	G	115	Produce Inventory or Assessment	Stream Investigations & Habitat Assessments	Perform fisheries investigations on designated tributary streams to identify species absence or presence, distributions, densities, and habitat inventory. This work includes determination of landowner willingness to participate in future year fisheries improvement projects, mapping irrigation systems, and documentation of seasonal in stream flows, fish passage, and identifying water conservation potential. Screen Program Fisheries personnel continue to be involved in fish salvage operations that are a part of various projects aimed at improving habitat and fish passage, and the seasonal shutdown of irrigation diversions within the Upper Salmon River Basin. The Screen Program is required to provide an annual report on the number of federally listed fish species that Program employees handled during salvage and rescue operations and under their Section 4(d) permit. Screen Program Biologist provides numbers of bull trout to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the number of listed anadromous fish to NOAA Fisheries. Fish were either handled during stream surveys or during salvage operations associated with irrigation ditch shut downs or habitat improvement projects. All Fisheries data that is collected is input and stored in the IDFG Stream Survey and Redd Survey Databases. IDFG and BPA have been working together to develop a GIS tool to share and display data for habitat restoration partners. BPA has been an active participant in the Habitat Restoration Planning Group which has been developing this effort.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)	Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)
	H	122	Provide Technical Review and Recommendation	Technical Review and Recommendations for Fisheries Projects	Provide technical review of products not generated by this program, but funded by BPA. Reviews include engineering plans, specifications, and designs of structures, bifurcation devices, pipelines, roads, bridges, power lines, waterways, and instream structures for fisheries impacts. Field review would include tours of proposed projects with project sponsor to provide technical expertise in fisheries related matters. Provides fisheries data, evaluations, and recommendations to other fisheries enhancement project sponsors. Recommendations would include technical advice concerning dewatering methodologies during construction activities, assisting with language selection in biological assessments, permitting, and other submittals.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)	Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)
	I	175	Produce Design	Topographic Surveys - Hayden Creek- 01 (LHC-01) Fish Screen	Note: some work may be done by subcontractor as noted in the line item budget. Survey proposed project sites. May include screen installation sites, head gate sites, diversion sites, or property boundaries. Develop topographic drawing of these sites and provide suitable temporary bench marks. Some of this work will be supplied by contract consultants.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)	Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)
	J	175	Produce Design	Topographic Surveys - Lemhi River-45A (L-45A) Fish Screen	Note: some work may be done by subcontractor as noted in the line item budget. Survey proposed project sites. May include screen installation sites, head gate sites, diversion sites, or property boundaries. Develop topographic drawing of these sites and provide suitable temporary bench marks. Some of this work will be supplied by contract consultants.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)	Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)
	K	175	Produce Design	Topographic Surveys - Lemhi River-08 (L-08) Fish Screen	Note: some work may be done by subcontractor as noted in the line item budget. Survey proposed project sites. May include screen installation sites, head gate sites, diversion sites, or property boundaries. Develop topographic drawing of these sites and provide suitable temporary bench marks. Some of this work will be supplied by contract consultants.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)	Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)
	L	132	Produce Progress (Annual) Report	Submit Progress Report for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023	The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or level of effort for contract implementation, including any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole. Date range July, 1 2020 to June 30, 2023 will be agreed upon by the COTR and the contractor. This may or may not coincide with the contract period. For an ongoing project, a progress report covering a contract period may be submitted under the subsequent contract, if approved by the COTR. Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the ''formatting guidelines'' link at the Technical Reports and Publications page: https://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments. If producing a technical report for this contract, a discrete experiment, or a peer-reviewed publication, use work element 183: Produce Journal Article.
	M	185	Produce CBFish Status Report	Periodic Status Reports for BPA	The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in CBFish. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COR. 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 COR.