FY 2002 Columbia Plateau proposal 25101

Section 1. Administrative

Project location

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Section 2. Past accomplishments

Section 3. Relationships to other projects

Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase

Task-based budget

Outyear objectives-based budget

Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase

Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase

Task-based budget

Outyear objectives-based budget

Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase

Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase

Task-based budget

Outyear objectives-based budget

Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase

Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Task-based budget

Outyear objectives-based budget

Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Section 8. Estimated budget summary

Itemized budget

Total estimated budget

Cost sharing

Other budget explanation

Subcontract costs are for student intern.

Reviews and recommendations

This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.

Comment:

Fundable if an adequate response is given to the ISRP's concerns. This is a short but well-prepared proposal by a qualified group with the required expertise, experience and equipment. The proposal would examine the use of the mainstem Columbia River by juvenile Pacific lamprey. They intend to conduct the study in the Hanford Reach and in the tailrace of four Columbia and Snake River dams. The study is based on a presumption that declining runs of lamprey were caused by degraded river conditions. They intend to classify habitat types in these reaches, electrofish to find which habitat types lamprey are using, and use these data to locate other such sites in the system. These data will be used to project where restoration activities (undefined, and in need of clarification) may be useful.

Reasons for the decline of lamprey are unknown. However, a review of previous investigations in the mainstem must contain information on amnocoete distribution and abundance in the past - this can not be the first time an electroshocker passed through the area? That review and data should be presented. For this study, relating abundance to habitat features in a multi-variate statistical analysis is difficult if not subject to misinterpretation where there are large patches of vacant habitat due to lack of recruitment, i.e., the current situation.

If there is not existing data, the proposal should be written to respond to the absence of information regarding use of these mainstem habitats by juvenile lamprey, and its potential importance for future fish and habitat managers.

Some potential habitat in the mainstem will be very difficult to sample for juvenile lamprey. How will the investigators ensure that their sampling will provide a legitimate basis for excluding some habitat types as of low importance for lamprey?

Presumably the investigators are participants in the Lamprey Working Group, and they are involved in regular discussions with others working on lamprey projects in the Basin such as work to assess juvenile lamprey distribution and abundance in the Deschutes River?

The proposal seems to be for three years, but budget request is for one year. The budget that is presented includes funds for a sub-contract the purpose of which is not obvious.

Please respond to general ISRP comments on this set of Lamprey projects provided above.

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Already ESA Req? N/A

Biop? no

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