FY 2007 Fish & Wildlife Program Project Solicitation

Project Proposal Request for FY 2007 - FY 2009 Funding

Proposal 200600100: Mcintyre Dam Feasibility Study

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Section 1: General Administrative
Section 2: Project Location
Section 3: Project Species
Section 4: Past Accomplishments
Section 5: Relationship to Other Projects
Section 6: Biological Objectives
Section 7: Work Elements
Section 8: Budget
Section 9: Project Future
Section 10: Documents

Part 2. Reviews

Part 1 of 2. Administration and Budgeting

Section 1: General Administrative Information

Process Information:

Date Proposal Submitted & Finalized	Status	Form Generator
January 10, 2006	Finalized	Kari Long

Proposal Type:

Ongoing

Proposal Number:

200600100

Proposal Name:

Mcintyre Dam Feasibility Study

BPA Project Manager:

Linda Hermeston

Agency, Institution or Organization:

Colville Confederated Tribes

Short Description:

Providing fish passage at McIntyre Dam will allow anadromous salmon access historic habitats and improve the conditions experienced by fish moving downstream through the dam. The irrigation flume will also be screened to prevent fish entrainment.

Information Transfer:

This inormation will be presented via pubic open houses and regional working groups as well as doumented in written reports.

Project Proposal Contacts

Contact	Organization	Address	Phone/Email	Roles
Form Submitter
Kari Long	Okanagan Nation Alliance	3255C Shannon Lake Road Westbank, BC V4T 1V4 CANADA	Ph: 250-707-0095 Fax: 250-707-0166 Email: w8d5j@unb.ca	Form Submitter
All Assigned Contacts
Chris Fisher	Colville Tribes	23 Brooks Tracts Omak, WA 98841	Ph: (509) 422-7427 Fax: (509) 422-7428 Email: chris.fisher@colvilletribes.com	Contract Manager Technical Contact
Kari Long	Okanagan Nation Alliance	3255C Shannon Lake Road Westbank, BC V4T 1V4 CANADA	Ph: 250-707-0095 Fax: 250-707-0166 Email: w8d5j@unb.ca	Form Submitter
Joe Peone	Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation	Highway 155 N P.O. Box 150 Nespelem, WA 99155	Ph: 509-634-2113 Fax: 509-634-2126 Email: joe.peone@colvilletribes.com	Interested Party

Section 2: Project Location

Sponsor Province:

Columbia Cascade

ARG Province:

No Change

Sponsor Subbasin:

Okanogan

ARG Subbasin:

No Change

Location(s) at which the action will be implemented

Latitude	Longitude	Waterbody	Location Description	County/State	Subbasin	Primary?
49 15 24	119 31 42	Okanagan River	McIntyre Dam	BC, Canada,	Okanogan	No

Section 3: Focal Species

Focal Species:

Primary	Secondary	Additional Species
Chinook Upper Columbia River Summer/Fall ESU Sockeye Okanogan River ESU Steelhead Upper Columbia River ESU	Rainbow Trout

Section 4: Past Accomplishments

Past Accomplishments for Each Fiscal Year of This Project

Fiscal Year	Accomplishments
2005	Work began in BPA's fiscal year 2006: From November 2005 to present, the feasibility study has been completed (find attached). In 2006 we will also be completeing the engineered designs (To be completed by August 2006.

Section 5: Relationships to Other Projects

Other Current Projects Related to this Project (any funding source)

Funding Source	Related ID	Related Project Title	Relationship
BPA	[no entry]	Skaha Lake sockeye reintroduction feasibility study	BPA#200001300. Future directive to have unimpeded fish passage for sockeye to migrate into Skaha Lake.
Other: DFO	[no entry]	Chinook population and habitat assessment	chinook assessment will need to be extended to include above McIntyre Dam
Other: COBTWG	[no entry]	Fisheries Ecosystem Planning	This project falls in line with prioritized ecosystem planning outlined
BPA	200302200	Monitor/Eval Okanogan Basin Pr	M&E sites found upstream and downstream of the project area.
Other: DCPUD	FWMT	Fish-water management tools	the reguation of the dam is apart of the FWMT program

Section 6: Biological Objectives

Biological Objectives of this Proposed Project

Biological Objective	Full Description	Associated Subbasin Plan	Strategy	Page Nos
Remove barriers	return anadromous salmon to thier historic rangeby providing passage	Okanogan	AU017: Construct passage at McIntyre Dam	7 & 77
Screen irrigation intake	screen the dams irrigation flume to prevent entrainment	Okanogan	AU017: Screen the irrigation canal at McIntyre Dam	77
Survey salmon spawning and rearing areas	survey the spawning and rearing areas of anadromous salmon for limiting factors	Okanogan	AU17: survey the reach upstream of McIntyre Dam and compare with steelhead and chinook spawning and rearing requirements	77

Section 7: Work Elements

Work Elements and Associated Biological Objectives

Work Element Name	Work Element Title	Description	Start Date	End Date	Estimated Budget
Manage and Administer Projects	Administration	Administration and management of the contract	10/1/2007	10/1/2009	$186,000
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

1: Coordination	Stakeholder meetings, Environmental Impact Assessment and permitting	Coordiate meetings, prepare and EIA and obtain required permits	10/1/2006	10/1/2007	$65,600
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

10: Submit/Acquire Data	Habitat assessment	using data on fish distrubution and field measurements of spawning and rearing areas prepare a limiting factors report	10/1/2008	10/1/2009	$13,760
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Survey salmon spawning and rearing areas			No Metrics for this Work Element

11: Produce/Submit Scientific Findings Report	Final evaluation and summary report	prepare a final evaluation and summary report as well as refining a water use plan for McIntyre Dam	10/1/2008	10/1/2009	$10,000
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

2: Install Fish Screen	install fish screen on the irrigation flume	install fish screen on the irrigation flume	10/1/2006	10/1/2007	$782,609
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Screen irrigation intake			No Metrics for this Work Element

3: Submit/Acquire Data	M & E: baseline data for fish moving downstream through the dam	M&E: collect baseline data for sockeye smolts moving downstream through the dam	1/1/2007	10/1/2007	$42,100
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

4: Remove/Modify Dam	Modify the dam	Refit the dam with 3 of the 5 overflow gates and build the backwater riffle	10/1/2006	10/1/2007	$517,391
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			* # of miles of habitat accessed: 13

5: Submit/Acquire Data	M& E fish movement upstream through the dam	monitor the movement and distribution of anadromous salmon migrating upstream of the dam	7/1/2007	12/30/2007	$16,850
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

6: Submit/Acquire Data	M&E fish movement downstream through the dam	monitor the spring movement of sockeye smolts and fry through the dams gates.	10/1/2007	10/1/2008	$42,100
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

7: Remove/Modify Dam	final dam modifications	basedon the ability of the fish to migrate upstream the final 2 overflow gates are installed or 1 gate and 1 fish ladder.	10/1/2007	10/1/2008	$330,435
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

8: Submit/Acquire Data	M&E: fish movement upstream through the dam	modnitor the upstream migration of anadromous salmon and thier distribution upstream of MacIntyre Dam	10/1/2007	10/1/2008	$16,850
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

9: Submit/Acquire Data	M&E: fish movement downstream through the dam	monitor the movement and condition of sockeye smolts and fry moving downstream through the dam in the spring.	10/1/2008	10/1/2009	$42,100
Biological Objectives			Metrics
Remove barriers			No Metrics for this Work Element

Section 8: Budget

Itemized Estimated Budget

Item	Note	FY 2007 Cost	FY 2008 Cost	FY 2009 Cost
Personnel	ONAFD staff	$47,800	$38,000	$41,200
Supplies	[blank]	$16,650	$16,650	$15,860
Travel	[blank]	$4,100	$3,300	$2,800
Other	sub-contracts	$1,356,000	$331,435	$6,000
Overhead	CCT and ONA admin	$140,500	$39,000	$6,500
Totals		$1,565,050	$428,385	$72,360

Total Estimated FY 2007-2009 Budgets

Total Itemized Budget	$2,065,795
Total Work Element budget	$2,065,795

Cost sharing

Funding Source or Organization	Item or Service Provided	FY 2007 Est Value ($)	FY 2008 Est Value ($)	FY 2009 Est Value ($)	Cash or in-kind?	Status
Town of Oliver	Intake Screen constuction	$200,000	$ 0	$ 0	Cash	Under Development
Totals		$200,000	$ 0	$ 0

Section 9: Project Future

Project Future Costs and/or Termination

FY 2010 Est Budget	FY 2011 Est Budget	Comments
$65,000	$65,000	Town of Oliver and Ministry of Environment, Water Branch
Future Operations & Maintenance Costs
Operation and maintenance costs are assumed by the agency responsible (i.e. the Town of Oliver will assume annual costs ($10,000) for maintaining the irrigation screen and the Ministry of Environment, Water Branch will assume annual costs ($5,000) of maintaining and operating the overshot gates). The ONA will sucure funding for two follow-up years of M&E ($50,000)

Termination Date	Comments
09/30/2009

Final Deliverables
Summary reports on the dam and screens final outcomes.

Section 10: Narrative

Document	Type	Size	Date
Advisor - Bob Newbury CV	pdf	43 kb	12/1/2005
Federal agency (DFO) letter of Support	jpg	103 kb	1/9/2006
Federal (DFO) screening directive	jpg	144 kb	5/22/2002
McIntyre Dam passage planning document	pdf	2.1 M	12/30/2005
Narrative for proposal 200600100	doc	1.9 M	1/9/2006
Provincial agency (Water branch) letter of support	pdf	46 kb	1/10/2006

Part 2 of 2. Reviews of Proposal

Administrative Review Group (ARG) Results

Account Type:
Both Capital and Expense

Location:
Province: No Change
Subbasin: No Change

Primary Focal Species
No Change

ARG Comments:

BPA Capital/Expense Review Results (March 14, 2006) [Download full document]

Initial BPA Capital/Expense Determination (Subject to final review):
Expense - Planning costs less than $1M, Construction costs could be capitalized if greater than $1M

Primary Uncertainty for Capitalization: ---

NPCC Final Funding Recommendations (October 23, 2006) [Full NPCC Council Recs]

FY 2007 Budget
$ 0

FY 2008 Budget
$ 0

FY 2009 Budget
$ 0

Total NPCC Rec
$ 0

Budget Type:

Expense

Budget Category:

ProvinceExpense

Recommendation:

Fund Pending Available Funds

Comments: Tier 2. Fund at a level consistent with ISRP comments, as funds become available.

NPCC Draft Funding Recommendations (September 15, 2006) [Full NPCC Council Recs]

FY 2007 Budget
$ 0

FY 2008 Budget
$ 0

FY 2009 Budget
$ 0

Total NPCC Rec
$ 0

FY 2007 MSRT Rec
$ 0

FY 2008 MSRT Rec
$ 0

FY 2009 MSRT Rec
$ 0

Total MSRT Rec
$ 0

Budget Category:

ProvinceExpense

Comments:

Independent Scientific Review Panel Final Review (August 31, 2006) [Download full document]

Recommendation: Fundable

NPCC Comments: Summary: This is an important project that should be funded. It was a pleasure to review this well-prepared, straightforward proposal. It should be given highest possible priority for funding as the project will likely have highly significant benefits to fish and wildlife that will persist. The M and E plan should be strengthened by better describing the study design to be used for the proposed assessment of the effectiveness of passage improvements. Generally monitoring in the basin should be covered by the Colville's project 200302200.

Technical and scientific background: This is a concise, well-written technical and scientific background. More background information on the fish and wildlife that might benefit from salmon passage in this area would be useful.

Rationale and significance to subbasin plans and regional programs: This project is a high priority in the Okanogan Subbasin Plan - described “as the largest natural increase to salmon and steelhead production for a low-cost improvement within the entire Okanogan River sub-basin.”

Relationships to other projects: There are a number of ongoing related projects funded by BPA, Douglas County PUD, Grant County PUD, and others.

Project history: The project began in 2005. This section could have been expanded with more details.

Objectives: Objectives are clearly stated (facilitate upstream and downstream fish migration, screening of irrigation canal)

Tasks (work elements) and methods: These are brief, and could have included more detail. We particularly appreciated the discussion of the question whether provision for adult passage will be necessary. The decision depends upon observations of their behavior at the new overflow spill gates to be installed.

Monitoring and evaluation: There is a provision for pre-project monitoring, and there will be post-project monitoring - but detailed methods are not provided. We are concerned there might not be a scientifically sound study design sufficient to measure "before and after" effects.

Facilities, Equipment, and Personnel: An impressive number of agencies and entities are involved in this project, each of which has its particular expertise and equipment.

The project might benefit from advice from a senior-level biostatistician to oversee the M&E experimental design/statistical analysis procedures.

Information Transfer: The plans seem appropriate for this type of project. The matter of long-term storage of data is not discussed and should be. Data obtained in the monitoring effort could be useful in the future for other purposes.

Independent Scientific Review Panel Preliminary Review (June 2, 2006) [Download full document]