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| A | 241923 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance Clearance for watershed restoration and habitat enhancement projects | EC compliance (including the HIP risk determination), permitting and cultural resource clearances for the work at: (1) Lower Lostine (2) Chesnimnus Creek was initiated by the NPT in FY23; All remaining EC compliance activities for Cultural Resources and Environmental clearance requirements will be completed under the design products advanced in this contract:
(a) HIP IV criteria documentation to be submitted for full review by Jul 1, 2024, to be in the review and/or approval process stage, and all HIP IV criteria for these project areas are expected to be completed successfully by the end of this contract period (Apr 2025);
(b) Construction considerations, evaluation of potential impacts, and additional clearances for implementation activities for the completed designs are expected to be incorporated within the subsequent contract(s) that support on-the-ground project construction of the work (funding commitments within Programmatic Habitat projects - Snake River region); and
(c) The additional design work will progress during this contract period and be provided to the BPA EC lead to continue HIP IV risk evaluation and cultural resource clearance. The near-final designs, as available, will be attached to this contract during the contract term.
(1) Work with the BPA EC lead to ensure that projects developed through the prior design contract will meet permitting and environmental compliance requirements. For example, provide needed information and support to ECF for ESA consultations (US Fish & Wildlife Service 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 next 3-years.
(2) Coordinate with the BPA Environmental Specialist (EC-Lead) to obtain NEPA, ESA, cultural resources, and other environmental compliance clearances required to implement the project designs or plans -- including materials or equipment staging areas and construction access points -- and as design features and implementation logistics and schedules become more firmly documented through preliminary planning and design, final design adjustments, engineering details and site planning.
Also coordinate and assure completion of all environmental compliance requirements and clearances for any other on-the-ground work developed or encompassed within the scope of this subregional habitat project, but expected to be implemented with funds outside this contract because implementation support remains with other projects (i.e., the GRMW). Include the documentation of public outreach (where required) for projects proposed for funding, prior to implementation.
(3) For cultural resource clearance(s), the EC Lead will initiate consultation with the affected tribes and state. To begin the process, NPT 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 NPT 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, NPT 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. | $25,000 | 4.74% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| B | 241924 | 114 | Identify and Select Projects | Develop and identify project concepts; evaluate, prioritize and select Habitat Projects | This work element encompasses contract efforts that continue through the contract period: ongoing work to screen and select potential projects throughout the Grande Ronde and Imnaha subbasins, including the Pine, Wallowa, and Lostine watersheds in Northeast Oregon, as well as the Asotin, Alpowa, and Tucannon drainages in SE Washington. In addition, select fish passage barriers for replacement, using the report and prioritized list of structures for replacement consideration that was prepared as part of the BPA Wallowa Culvert Inventory project. Grants will be obtained to replace high-priority problem structures identified within that final report.
This work is closely linked to Produce Project Specific Designs: projects that will be planned and developed need to be evaluated and selected prior to submitting proposals for funding support to advance a conceptual restoration approach. Once a project is selected as a priority, outside funding sources will be sought for design development and subsequent implementation.
Management Considerations (most watersheds): No matter the funding source, the final contract(s) and funds would need to be in-place by June 30th of the year in which a selected project would be implemented. This deadline has to be met in order to meet the instream work window in most of the watersheds in Wallowa County. There are exceptions to this deadline however. The watersheds that only contain steelhead (e.g., Toynima, the Lower Grande Ronde) have a much longer work window. Thus, contract funds could be secured later in the year and still leave adequate time to accomplish the implementation work.
Background: When this contract began, the project selection process included utilizing the adopted NPT Department of Fisheries Resource Management priority HUC 5 watersheds. This process also involves the coordination with other entities (FS, ODFW, OWT, NRAC, Hells Canyon Collaborative, Wallowa Resources and etc) to prioritize areas to work, which will be the first step in deciding where work should occur. Once the areas are prioritized, specific high priority projects will be developed. This coordination is also essential to ensure that other entities are not already planning the same project, funding matches can be sought and to seek input on project designs.
The selection process for fish passage projects is outlined in great detail in the final report for the previous project. Other types of projects are selected based on Subbasin Plans, the Wallowa County-Nez Perce Tribe Salmon Habitat Recovery Plan, and watershed assessments. For example, the Toynima watershed has a current watershed assessment, which outlines the need to close over 100 miles of road. This assessment also provides the prioritization for the selection of roads to begin decommissioning. This watershed is also listed in the Grande Ronde Subbasin Plan as having one of the highest road densities of anywhere in the subbasin. This area has also been the focus of implementation activities for NRAC, Wallowa Resources and the Forest Service. However, none of these entities have begun working on the roads aspect. In order for the NPT to fit into the existing network of restoration efforts, we have offered to begin this work. | $140,000 | 26.52% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| C | 241925 | 191 | Watershed Coordination | Coordination with Watershed Partners: Identify, Evaluate, Select and Implement Projects to Protect & Restore Habitat | A sub-regional watershed-based coordination effort with all partners and co-managers within northeast Oregon and southeast Washington to support and facilitate the necessary collaboration and work to identify, select and implement the highest priority habitat projects.
Background: The purpose of this project is to develop, evaluate, prioritize and implement selected habitat restoration and enhancement projects in: (a) the Grande Ronde & Imnaha subbasins, and the Wallowa, Lostine & Joseph Creek watersheds in northeast Oregon; and (b) the Tucannon River, Alpowa Creek and Asotin Creek watersheds in southeast Washington. This is accomplished through establishing partnerships and maintaining collaborative relationships with the ongoing programs associated with Grande Ronde Model Watershed and Snake River Salmon Recovery Board watershed restoration planning. Projects proposed and selected are evaluated and prioritized on the basis of the existing conceptual restoration strategies or implementation frameworks developed for the Tucannon, Asotin County, and Grande Ronde watersheds (e.g., Atlas).
Summary: Contract funding includes coordination support for the NPT to sustain development and implementation of on-the-ground watershed restoration projects through direct BPA F&W Program funding or outside (WA/OR grant) funding sources. Therefore, an emphasis in contract activities is identifying and evaluating projects, coordinating with other entities to develop and manage implementation priorities, seeking funds to implement selected and prioritized projects, and the actual implementation of the projects. Typically, the primary focus of restoration projects during the contract period will be efforts to reduce instream sedimentation, channel reconstruction to improve habitat complexity, riparian planting to reduce stream temperatures, and addressing passage barriers to increase available in-channel habitat area. Beyond the coordination and collaboration commitments required to sustain project reviews and approvals during this contract period, the majority of the time will be spent on: a) implementing identified and approved priority projects, and b) developing these types of projects for design and implementation funding during the next contract cycle. | $226,000 | 42.82% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| D | 241926 | 175 | Produce Design | Chesnimnus Creek - Williams Design - 80% | Background: The project is part of a multi-phased effort to complete designs, and permitting along 14 miles of private and USFS properties in order to implement a thoroughly vetted instream and floodplain restoration project benefitting limiting life stages of ESA listed steelhead in Chesnimnus Creek, Wallowa County, Oregon.
This current phase spans approximately four miles on private land and adjacent to the upstream USFS parcel. The project seeks to restore the mainstem channel and adjacent floodplain to proper function and condition. The restoration of the channel will greatly enhance endangered and poorly functioning fisheries and wetland habitat.
Current Status: Chesnimnus Creek is a tributary of Joseph Creek, located in the northern end of Wallowa County. Joseph Creek and its tributaries, identified as MCC1 in the Wallowa Atlas Restoration Prioritization Matrix, is a Tier 2 subwatershed. Although the Joseph Creek steelhead population is among the most viable in the region, its headwaters do not originate in high elevation snowpack dominated mountains, which makes this watershed extremely susceptible to changes in temperature and hydrologic regimes.The ESA Recovery Plan for NEOR Snake River Spring and Summer Chinook Salmon and Snake River Basin Steelhead Populations (NOAA 2017) ranks the status of the Joseph Creek Steelhead Population – one of four extant populations within the Grande Ronde River Major Population Group, as having a very low risk of extinction. The recovery plan also states, “The recovery strategy will maintain and improve the population’s highly viable status by restoring tributary habitat conditions for steelhead incubation and juvenile rearing”. Decreasing summer water temperatures and minimizing sediment input are listed among the Key Strategies and Actions to be applied in lower Chesnimnus Creek to improve steelhead incubation and juvenile rearing.
Summary: Project intended to restore floodplain and side channel connectivity, hyporheic exchange, sinuosity, and complexity. Project design considerations include, but are not limited to:
• Levee removal or breaching to re-connect historic meanders and side channels.
• Channel fill/stage 0/stage 8 methodologies
'• Beaver dam analog (BDA) structures, post assisted log structures (PALS) to achieve appropriate surface water elevations for seasonal and persistent floodplain inundation.
• Large Wood Material (LWM) structures to provide additional cover, interstitial spacing and deep zero velocity pools for juvenile salmonid rearing.
• Floodplain excavation to promote hyporheic and cold water exchange.
• Native seeding, container planting, and sedge mat installation to create an intact riparian forest.
Purpose: Refine and produce 80% and final designs, obtain environmental clearances and permits, and organize material staging and construction access planning for implementation of some project components as early as the fall of 2024.
Note: This work element includes all work associated with engineering, technical drawings, specifications and/or budgets required for the construction of in-stream features, large wood placements, channel or floodplain excavation, passage modification, or the installation of any additional structures or design elements. Refinement of the design plan may include ancillary work such as land surveying, photogrammetric 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.
Subcontractor will complete task - RIO ASE | $26,056 | 4.94% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| E | 241928 | 100 | Construction Management | Lostine Town - RM 5.7 Construction Oversight | The project reach includes approximately 0.5 miles of Lostine River main channel and 10 acres of associated floodplain, located upstream (south) of the Caudle Lane bridge (Figure 1). The goals of the project are to improve floodplain and instream habitat conditions for ESA-listed Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus), and potentially re-introduced Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus).
Habitat conditions within the project reach have been negatively impacted by floodplain development, levee construction, and bank armoring, which have led to simplified channel conditions and floodplain disconnection over time. Additionally, a steep bluff is located midway along the project reach on river right and appears to be contributing fine sediment to the river.
Related implementation contract 1992-02-01; 84044 REL 26 subcontractor will complete that contract.
Additionally, the site was surveyed and treated in spring 2023 for noxious weeds. NPT staff will work with the landowners and contractors to treat the site prior to construction.
NPT and sub-contractor Interfluve will provide construction oversight. | $28,000 | 5.30% | 05/01/2024 | 12/31/2024 |
| F | 243849 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Lostine Town - RM 5.7 Noxious Weed Treatment | A noxious weed inventory/assessment was conducted by local contractors through the Wallowa County Weed Board in spring 2023. The site was treated as per priority species on the property. It was recommended another assessment be done pre and post construction, spring and fall 2024 to help minimize construction impacts related to noxious weed proliferation. NPT staff will coordinate the effort, a sub contractor will complete the work. | $6,000 | 1.14% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| G | 241929 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Tamkaliks planting and weed treatment | Construction was completed in November 2021. The project site was seeded and planted during project completion. Noxious weeds continue to compete with native vegetation and attempt to colonize. Noxious weeds were surveyed and treated spring 2023, but more treatments are deemed necessary to help native vegetation in the project area proliferate. Noxious weed treatments will occur either spring 2024, fall 2024 or both. Vegetation will also be surveyed and additional willow or cottonwood cuttings or container plants added. NPT staff and sub-contractors will conduct a noxious weed assessment, treatment and planting spring and fall 2024. Additionally NPT staff consulted with "Plantworks" out of Cove, Oregon who did an additional assessment for Reed Canary grass. NPT staff and the groundskeeper for the Homeland project will seek to treat the project area, specifically the wetlands to aid in the removal of Reed Canary Grass.
Subcontractor will be hired by NPT to complete weed treatment and or planting. | $8,156 | 1.55% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| H | 243811 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Poley Allen Survey and Vegetation Management | The project site is located at a privately-owned irrigation diversion dam that crosses the Lostine River approximately 1 mile south of the town of Lostine, Oregon, river mile 4.8. The project was completed fall 2023, restoring fish passage through the Poley-Allen diversion structure, by modifying the existing channel spanning concrete sill and concrete abutment, installation of a roughened channel downstream of the sill, and enhancing habitat in the adjacent side channel through LWM placement.
This project will maximize year-round fish passage and diversify fish habitat for all life history stages of Bull Trout, steelhead, and Chinook Salmon, while maintaining access to irrigation water for current water rights holders. As the channel stabilizes and has access to its adjacent historic side channel vegetative and longitudinal surveys will be necessary to assess and further stabilize the site.
Vegetative management will be assessed by NPT staff and Plantworks.
A subcontractor will conduct any survey related tasks. | $6,000 | 1.14% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| I | 241931 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Habitat Project implementation management and contract administration | This task includes the duties associated with watershed-based program management, the identification and implementation of priority riparian restoration projects, and the administrative and technical work by the contractor to fulfill BPA's programmatic and contractual requirements. These include: implementation of the current contract SOW, managing a budget, and satisfying BPA contracting requirements, including preparing and submitting invoices and next year's statement of work and budget, maintaining a property inventory (if applicable), confirming accrual estimates, accounting for cost-share, and completing quarterly status reports, etc.
It also includes management, administration, preparation for, and implementation of priority habitat restoration actions: directing the planning and implementation of priority ecological restoration and habitat enhancement projects throughout the watersheds in the Snake River subregion, and adaptively managing implementation actions. It may include supervising and training staff, and providing professional development; addressing issues presented by various user groups and county, state, tribal, and federal entities; maintaining licenses/training requirements; responding to information requests and addressing local concerns and unforeseen opportunities and issues as they arise. | $58,394 | 11.06% | 05/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
| J | 241932 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Protect Restore SE WA/NE OR Watershed Annual Report - 4/1/2024 to 3/31/2025 | The (annual) progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and adjustments to implementation strategies or long-term planning considerations. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or adjustment to the level of effort for contract implementation, including any ramping up or ramping down of contract components, or of the project as a whole.
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. | $4,000 | 0.76% | | 04/30/2025 |
| K | 241922 | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Quarterly Status Reports | NPT shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in CBFish on a quarterly basis. 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. | $200 | 0.04% | 07/01/2024 | 04/30/2025 |
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