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| A | 249569 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Habitat project implementation management and contract administration | Summary: Management and administration of habitat project implementation: clearances, permitting, materials acquisition, site preparation, construction, construction management and accomplishment reporting.
This work element includes the administrative and technical work by the contractor required to fulfill BPA's programmatic commitments and contractual requirements. These include: a) implementation of the current contract SOW, managing a budget, and satisfying BPA contracting requirements, including preparing and submitting invoices and any subsequent statement of work and budget, confirming accrual estimates, accounting for cost-share, and progress reporting; and b) coordinating habitat restoration planning and project implementation with SRSRB, WDFW, NPT and CCD staff, to promote effective and efficient actions across all the work areas in the watershed.
Status: The work emphases expected in this contract period are the continuation of tasks already underway in Lakes Assessment & Conceptual Design (73982 REL164 (FY23), first initiated in FY23, and primarily associated with co-managers coordination, geomorphic analysis and conceptual design development, clearances and approvals, permitting, and funding coordination of project designs tipping out of the Lake Assessment. These projects are larger in footprint and scope than previous efforts in the basin, which has led the co-lead habitat implementers to team up on the first project tipping out of the assessment PA8-10.1 Big 4 Dam Removal and Floodplain Restoration.
(a) Lake Assessment & Conceptual Design (overview): Under prior contracts (73982 REL164), CTUIR is managing the assessment of the PA5-15 reach for the impacts of large infrastructure impacts caused by the put and take off channel impoundments operated by WDFW. The development of conceptual and preliminary designs for the work at Project Area 5-15 will continue into the summer of 2024 and is planned to be completed in early 2025. The first project tipping out of this effort is PA8-10.3 a 2.45-mile reach. CTUIR will continue to coordinate this assessment and design effort in 2024.
(b) PA-8-10.1 (Big 4 Dam Removal) (overview): PA8-10.3 is entering the conceptual development in FY24 supported by CTUIR, NPT and WDFW as co-sponsors of a construction contract to peruse State of Washington Targeted Investment Salmon Recovery grant funds in the sum of >$5 million over a five year period with the first opportunity in 2024 followed in 2025-27. The anticipated restoration designs would focus on several major restoration elements including but not limited to: removal of the Big 4 Dam and supporting diversion point and ditch and all protective levees and rip rap. Restoration of the impacted reach is being scoped to about 2.5 river miles and ~ 2 valley miles with the opportunity for restoration average of ~500’ wide.
(c) In this contract (FY24), riparian planting will continue at (PA 27/28) Phase III (73982 REL 168) which was freshly implemented with work completed in October 2023. This project has over 18 acres of newly connected floodplain to begin planting on in the Spring 2024 with significant potted plant planting to begin in the fall of 2024 and spring 2025.
Notes:
(1) the CTUIR Contract Manager, with the assistance of SRSRB staff, will administer this contract as an additional component of the implementation roles and relationships developed through the existing programmatic habitat project responsibilities in the Tucannon Watershed (#2010-077-00), and as addressed separately in the ongoing CTUIR yearly Accord project contract with BPA that supports habitat restoration actions in the Tucannon, and elsewhere in SE-WA.
(2) the incremental cost of contract management, including any subcontractor oversight, communication, and supervision, is otherwise encompassed within the FY24 and FY25 contract budgets for Project #2008-202-00: Protect and Restore the Tucannon Watershed (CTUIR). Additional funding may be included in the line-item budgets for those contracts. | $1,000 | 0.20% | 04/01/2022 | 12/31/2025 |
| B | 249570 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Compliance Documentation and Clearance: floodplain restoration and enhancement project: PA-8-10.3 (Big 4) | Notes: EC compliance (including the HIP 3 risk determination) and the cultural resource consultation for the work at PA-8-10.3 (Big 4 Levee Removal and Floodplain Restoration) will be initiated by CTUIR in the current FY24, and previously supported (conceptual design) under BPA contract #84042 REL24. This effort was a partnership between WDFW, CTUIR and NPT habitat programs. It is our current approach to host the project design with CTUIR as the lead. It is currently our intention that NPT will host the construction contracts of implementation and WDFW and CTUIR will provide design permitting and construction support. The current alternative analysis and concept development is underway in the WDFW (#84042 REL24) contract supporting CTUIR. This contract would work to develop the design to preliminary and then near final/final with the intention of initiating implementation in 2025.
[PA-8-10.3 (Phase I)]: All EC compliance activities for Cultural Resources and Environmental clearance requirements are expected to be completed under the design products advanced to support this build contract:
(a) The 30% Conceptual design will be attached to the prior contract (#84042 REL24) during the contract term (FY24). The near-intermediate design (60%) will be provided to the BPA EC-lead to confirm the HIP IV risk determination and the completion of cultural resource clearances;
(b) HIP IV criteria documentation should be completed, and submitted for full review by Mar 15, 2025; and
(c) the HIP IV project notification form will be submitted before Apr 1, 2025, for the work to be completed in the current year. The final designs, as available, will be attached to this contract early in the contract term (FY25).
(1) Work with the BPA Environmental Specialist (EC-Lead) to ensure that work tasks and project actions currently underway or developed through design/planning activities, or previously initiated in the prior contract term, will meet permitting and environmental compliance requirements. For example, provide needed information and support to ECF for ESA consultations (USFWS or NOAA Fisheries) and Cultural Resource reviews and concurrences (e.g., State [SHPO] & Tribal [THPO]) for construction activities that are planned for implementation in the contract period.
(2) Coordinate with the BPA EC-Lead to obtain NEPA, ESA, cultural resources, and other environmental compliance clearances required to implement contract actions -- including the development of materials or equipment staging areas and construction access points -- and as design features and implementation logistics and schedules become more firmly documented through final design adjustments and site planning.
(3) For cultural resource clearance(s), the EC Lead will initiate consultation with the affected tribes and state. To begin the process, CTUIR will provide the BPA EC Lead with a brief project description and maps showing the area of potential effect (APE) of an action, to include the section/township/range for the whole area. Once the APE has been submitted and accepted, the CTUIR lead archaeologist and technical staff (or appointees) may perform the cultural resource survey(s), and provide construction monitoring (if necessary). A survey report will be provided to BPA for submittal to the affected tribes and state for approval.
Note: To ensure clearance is obtained prior to work activities, CTUIR staff will start this process no later than 4-mos prior to the date desired for field work. On-the-ground work cannot begin until environmental compliance and cultural resource clearance has been received from the EC-Lead. | $1,000 | 0.20% | 04/01/2024 | 12/31/2025 |
| C | 249571 | 175 | Produce Design | Finalize Design Specifications and Engineering (completion or adjustment): PA8-10.3 (Big 4 Reach) | Note: A near-final assessment, design report, and project design is being completed pursuant to BPA contract support for the CTUIR in FY23 and FY24 (see #73982 Rel 164 and 84042 Rel 24).
The purpose of this WE is to refine and adjust the habitat improvement and restoration designs developed by the CTUIR subcontractor in the previous contract periods (WDFW supported preliminary design 84042 REL 24) to the preliminary level needed to initiate grant proposals and initiate environmental clearances and permits, and to organize construction planning for phasing implementation beginning the Summer of 2025. Review and refinement of a final design may be required prior to going to construction, to accurately reflect changes in river conditions that may be expected to occur between the time of the previous contract award and the work-window construction period, following high-flow runoff conditions in the stream channel during the Spring (2024 and 2025).
Background: The Project Area 8-10.1 (Big 4 Levee Removal) habitat restoration proposal is part of a large-scale project located on the Wooten Wildlife Area, a WDFW property within the active river channel and floodplain. The larger project is being proposed as a WA State Targeted Investment Salmon Project, a contract under the BPA Programmatic Habitat Project (pending funding and permitting capacity), and with the CTUIR Tucannon Watershed Habitat (Accord) project. The PA8-10.3 project will be sequenced over a period of years across multiple contract periods due to: a) funding constraints in any single contract term; b) limitations on contract duration; and c) the timing and duration of instream work-windows.
Under the previous contract, the design emphasis is to reconnect the floodplain through this reach. The overall project is comprised of high priority restoration actions identified in the Conceptual Restoration Plan for the Tucannon River (Anchor 2021). The conceptual design is currently underway and will be completed by April 2024 as part of the ongoing BPA contract support for the CTUIR (#73982 REL164).
Overview: The overall reach design goals are to remove the Big 4 Levee, diversion, protective rip rap, and parking lot for the purpose of increasing floodplain connectivity and channel complexity through channel shape modification driven by wood placement. The primary objectives for restoration actions at PA 8-10.3 are to: increase in-channel shape complexity (LWD), expand/maintain floodplain connectivity, increase perennial channel length through reconnecting historic flow paths/side channels, place LWD for cover/complexity, and reduce channel confinement through the placement of log jams.
Status: This design stage is expected to finalize the preliminary design and/or adapt as needed a site plan, technical drawings or engineering specifications, access points, and a plan for materials management and equipment staging areas – based on the final design Report, CTUIR and SRSRB staff review, and engineering technical comment. Depending on the anticipated construction schedule, additional final design review may be required prior to project implementation to: (1) respond to BPA engineering staff (ETS) review conclusions or recommendations; (2) incorporate permit or clearance requirements; or (3) accurately reflect the changes in river conditions or channel structure that can be expected to have occurred between the time of the earlier design approval and this contract award, or the work-window construction period.
Purpose: This work element is intended to: (a) guide the transition from an 30% (or preliminary) design to the development and confirmation of final engineering, design specifications, and site planning required to permit and sufficient to implement the project; (b) accommodate any late-stage adjustments in planning due to changed circumstances (confirmation of site plan, construction access points, materials staging areas, and scheduling); and (c) conclude all work associated with the preparation of engineering or technical drawings, specifications and/or budgets required for the construction of in-stream large wood placement and the installation of any additional structures or design features at: PA-8-10.3.
This work element includes all work associated with the preparation of engineering or technical drawings, specifications and/or budgets required for the construction of in-stream large wood placement and the installation of any additional structures or design features. Refinement of the design plan may include ancillary work such as land surveying, photogrametric surveys, field surveys, etc. Materials identification and the coordination of acquisition of construction material (i.e., trees with root wads) are also to be incorporated in design considerations and planning. | $269,651 | 52.99% | 04/01/2024 | 12/31/2025 |
| D | 249572 | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Plant trees, shrubs and grasses to support the PA28.1 restoration design and remediation of site impacts | Enhancing and restoring instream habitat in this project area will be accomplished through a variety of treatment actions in the main channel, along the banks, and within the floodplain. The associated treatment of riparian areas is expected to induce naturally occurring repair, restoration, and recovery of both floodplain and riparian zone function and processes.
Establishing native plant communities, in conjunction with the addition of LWD and other structural features in this channel segment, contributes to improved instream habitat complexity, encourages greater diversity in riparian plant communities, and promotes increased connectivity and function between instream and riparian habitats, and the reemerging, reactivated floodplain areas. The overarching implementation strategy is the establishment and support of riparian plantings that: a) serve in the long-term to provide shade and reduce temperatures, and b) contribute to proper floodplain structure, connectivity and habitat function.
USDA CRP Native Grass seed mix will be used to establish a conservation cover. Riparian trees and shrubs such as Blue Elderberry, Mock Orange, Ponderosa Pine, Cottonwood, and Willow (Pacific, Peachleaf, Drummond, and Coyote) stems will be planted for floodplain connection and habitat function in areas where natural recruitment is lacking, or where conditions are sufficiently changed to support the establishment of new plant communities. Monitoring the sites, conducting survival inventories, and identifying maintenance or replanting needs will be an accompanying, ongoing strategy to support the complexity improvement restoration objectives of the project.
Note: Riparian plantings in the Tucannon have the greatest survival when they are planted early, as soon as fall/winter soil moisture is sufficient to maintain survival. This can range from October into December in poor-water years. The work is combined with post-implementation site restoration, for efficiency, that includes the clean-up and restoration of construction access points and materials or equipment storage and mobilization areas, to address the unavoidable negative impacts of construction activities. | $125,000 | 24.56% | 04/01/2024 | 12/31/2025 |
| E | 249573 | 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. | $1,500 | 0.29% | 07/01/2024 | 12/31/2025 |
| F | 249574 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Report encompassed in yearly Programmatic Habitat reporting for the Tucannon (#2010-077-00) | Progress Report for this contract to be completed within the requirements of the next administration, management and coordination support contract for the SRSRB in FY24/25.
The COTR is providing guidance to the CCD, CTUIR, WDFW, NPT and other contractors to work with the SRSRB staff to produce a single, comprehensive document that encompasses all of the work funded by BPA through the Tucannon Programmatic Habitat Project [#2010-077-00], including the FY24 accomplishment reporting for this contract, and any subsequent renewals (FY25/26). | $500 | 0.10% | 11/01/2024 | 12/15/2025 |
| G | 249575 | 174 | Produce Plan | Conceptual Habitat Restoration Strategy (Tucannon Lakes): Floodplain Connection & Habitat Complexity | Background: In April 2011, the Columbia Conservation District (CCD) completed work with Anchor QEA to produce the Tucannon River Geomorphic Assessment and Habitat Restoration Study (Anchor QEA 2011 April). Later that year, focusing on the high-priority areas for Tucannon spring Chinook, the District coordinated the development of a habitat restoration plan for the Tucannon River from RM-20 upstream to RM-50: the Conceptual Restoration Plan (Reaches 6-10), Tucannon River Phase II (Anchor QEA 2011 Nov). In 2020, the CCD working with Anchor QEA, updated the 2011 Assessment and Conceptual Restoration in the Geomorphic Assessment & Restoration Prioritization (GARP) (Anchor 2021).
The Restoration Plans have been the foundation for addressing the restoration objectives of the Habitat Programmatic, consistently used to identify and prioritize the projects evaluated and selected for implementation in the Tucannon River beginning in 2012, and continuing to the present. However, at the time of the development of the Conceptual Restoration Plan (Anchor QEA 2011) WDFW initiated the development of the W.T. Wooten Floodplain Management Plan (WDFW 2014) in which large infrastructure situated on the floodplain was identified and conceptualized if not prioritized. The floodplain management plan has led to the removal of camping areas and parking from the floodplain as well the reconfiguration of Rainbow Lake contributing ~3.5 ac of additional available floodplain area.
Overview: In 2020, during the initiation of the GARP the large infrastructure work identified in the Floodplain Management Plan were not considered as part of concept development or prioritization. In 2022 CTUIR initiated a geomorphic assessment and conceptual restoration design for the lakes reach PA 5-15.2 (#73982 REL164), focused on identifying and evaluating restoration opportunities that would lead to significant gains in floodplain connectivity and channel complexity.
Status: There are seven lakes and supporting infrastructure, all located in the floodplain, located on the Tucannon Wooten Wildlife Area. The impacts of confinement are evident in the Project Areas where they are located (PA-8, PA-9, PA-11.1, PA-12, PA-13 and PA-14.2), but this assessment will look to identify solutions to minimizing these impacts that can be prioritized for implementation based on the greatest benefit to spring chinook and steelhead habitat.
Current Emphasis (FY24): The first project to tip out of this effort will be the Big 4 (Levee Removal and Floodplain Restoration) project involving PA8-10.3. Efforts in this WE will aim to support data gaps in the assessment technical support in the development of that project as it relates to the Tucannon Lake Assessment PA 5-15.3. CTUIR will work with the habitat programmatic staff and the selected contractor doing both the assessment and design in this case to support the design and NPT in the coordination of a construction contract. | $100,218 | 19.69% | 04/01/2024 | 12/19/2025 |
| H | 249823 | 199 | Remove Vegetation | Support Establishment of Native Riparian Spp | As identified in the CTUIR Tucannon River PA27/28 Phase III Restoration Plan, invasive non-native annuals and perennials will be suppressed/removed at this site to support the reestablishment of native riparian and wetland plant species. Removing non-native plant species helps address limiting habitat factors for salmonids in the Tucannon River basin, including improving riparian plant communities and ameliorating high stream temperature for Snake River Spring Chinook (all tributary life stages including adult holding, spawning and summer/winter rearing). This work will remove and suppress non-native invasive annuals and perennial plants common to newly disturbed lands of SE Washington (see list below), while native riparian plants of low regularly flooded areas become established. In previous work (73982 REL 164), Phase III construction reconnected ~11ac (previously active agriculture) to regular low
summer/winter flows to reduce stream power during flood events and reconnect disconnected floodplain. To successfully reestablish functioning riparian forests, weed control will be necessary for several years (2025-28).
TARGETED VEGETATION: will be removed on 11 acres to aid in the establishment of native riparian species (below).
Kochia scoparia
Solanum rostratum
Chondrilla juncea
Centaurea solstitialis
Conium maculatum
Cynoglossum officinale
Carduus nutans.
Vegetation removal will be subcontracted to agricultural operator Tye Knebel. | $10,000 | 1.97% | 11/01/2024 | 03/31/2025 |
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