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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

September 11, 2007

Council Central offices
851 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100
Portland, Oregon (map)
503-222-5161  fax 820-2370

To participate in any of the meetings, call our central office, 800-452-5161, for the call-in number.

Monday, September 10

Council Member tour and briefing on transmission at Bonneville Power Administration Dittmer Center in Vancouver, Washington; and tour of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Removable Spillway Weir (RSW) for Lower Monumental Dam at the Portland Shipyard.

Tuesday, September 11

Fish Committee - large and small conference rooms - 8:30am

• Update (90k PDF) on status of Snake River Fall Chinook transportation evaluation
• Fish and Wildlife Program amendment discussion (180k PDF)
  • Science Policy Exchange
  • Call for recommendations - draft letter and attachments
  • Decision recommendation on program amendment schedule
  • Report by Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority on Program amendments
• Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority Report (250k PDF) on abundance
• Update (70k PDF) on Regional Coordination
• Follow-up action (120k PDF): Project 1992-026-01, Grand Ronde Model Watershed Program Habitat Restoration - Planning, Coordination and Implementation

Power Committee - 13^th floor conference room - 8:30am

• Briefing (180k PDF) on residential exchange and Average System Cost methodology
• Develop recommendation (70k PDF) to Council on CO₂ footprint paper
• Report (510k PDF) on recent transmission expansion activity
• Options (280k PDF) for an economic adequacy target
• Summary (70k PDF) of comments and proposed changes to fuel price forecasts
• Power division work plan update (240k PDF)

Council Meeting - large and small conference rooms - 10:30am

	10:30 - 10:45am	Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chairs:  Rhonda Whiting chair, fish and wildlife committee; Jim Kempton, chair, power committee; and Larry Cassidy, chair, public affairs committee.
1.	10:45 - 11:30am	Council decision on Innovative Proposals:  Patty O’Toole, program implementation manager.	download 170k PDF
2.	11:30 - 11:45am	Council decision on follow-up Fiscal Year 2007-2009 actions:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation. - Project 1992-026-01, Grand Ronde Model Watershed Program Habitat Restoration - Planning, Coordination and Implementation	download 120k PDF
	11:45am	Public comment on any subject before the Council.
3.	1:30 - 2pm	Council decision on the schedule for the program amendments. and Review of draft letter calling for recommendations for the Fish and Wildlife Program amendment process:  Tony Grover, director, fish and wildlife division; Patty O’Toole: and Lynn Palensky, program planning and special projects coordinator.	download 130k PDF
4.	2 - 2:15pm	Council decision to adopt final revised fuel price forecasts issue paper (Council document 2007-10):  Terry Morlan, director, power division.	download 280k PDF
5.	2:30 - 2:45pm	Council decision on release of the CO2 Footprint paper:  Terry Morlan; and Jeff King, senior resource analyst.	download 70k PDF
6.	2:45pm	Council Business: Adoption of minutes

The Council will meet in Executive Session at the close of business on Tuesday,
September 11, to discuss Council organization and procedures.

The Executive Committee will meet in Executive Session after the close of the Council Executive Session on Tuesday, September 11.

Wednesday, September 12 and Thursday, September 13:  Council Member attendance at Science Policy Exchange sponsored by the Council, held at Portland State University.

The times listed for specific agenda items, and the order of those items, are approximate and are subject to change. Public comment will be taken after each agenda item as time allows.

Last updated: 9/5/2007  10am