FY 2002 Columbia Plateau proposal 199206200

Section 1. General administrative information
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Section 4. Budgets for planning/design phase
Section 5. Budgets for construction/implementation phase
Section 6. Budgets for operations/maintenance phase
Section 7. Budgets for monitoring/evaluation phase
Section 8. Budget summary

Reviews and Recommendations

Additional documents

Title	Type
199206200 Narrative	Narrative
199206200 Powerpoint Presentation	Powerpoint Presentation
Columbia Plateau: Yakima Subbasin Map with BPA Fish & Wildlife Projects	Subbasin Map
Columbia Plateau: Yakima Subbasin Map with BPA Fish & Wildlife Projects	Subbasin Map

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal title	Yakama Nation - Riparian/Wetlands Restoration
Proposal ID	199206200
Organization	Yakama Nation (YN)
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Name	Tracy Hames
Mailing address	P. O. Box 151 Toppenish, WA 98948
Phone / email	5098656262 / [email protected]
Manager authorizing this project	Harry Smiskin
Review cycle	Columbia Plateau
Province / Subbasin	Columbia Plateau / Yakima
Short description	Continue implementation of YN Wetlands/Riparian Restoration Project by protecting and restoring native floodplain habitats along anadromous fish-bearing waterways in the agricultural area of the Yakama Reservation (~2,500 acres/year).
Target species	All wetland and riparian-dependent wildlife and fish species in the lower Yakima Subbasin. These include waterfowl, colonial wading birds, neotropical migrant songbirds, furbearers, herpetiles, steelhead, coho and chinook salmon.

Project location

Latitude	Longitude	Description
46.5	-120.5	The floodplain areas of the anadromous fish-bearing rivers and streams in the agricultural portion of the Yakama Reservation.

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Sponsor-reported:

RPA

Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:

Reviewing agency	Action #	BiOp Agency	Description
NMFS	Action 153	NMFS	BPA shall, working with agricultural incentive programs such as the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, negotiate and fund long-term protection for 100 miles of riparian buffers per year in accordance with criteria BPA and NMFS will develop by June 1, 2001.

Section 2. Past accomplishments

Year	Accomplishment
1991	Completed initial project plan including Habitat Evaluations Procedures (HEP) estimates for the project area.
1992	Obtained predesign funding for implementation plan.
1993	Developed implementation plan and identified 15 priority areas for inclusion into the project (total 27,000 acres).
1993	Project programmatic NEPA work completed, FONSI signed.
1994	Acquired Priority Area Number 1 (430 acres).
1995	Acquired Priority Area Number 2 (3,800 acres).
1995	Restored wetlands on Priority Area 1 (200 acres).
1996	Acquired Priority Area 3 (660 acres).
1996	Began restoration activities on Areas 2 and 3, began native grass restoration on Area 1.
1997	Began land securing process for all or portions of Priority Areas 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, and 15.
1997	Finished native habitat restoration of Areas 1 and 3, continued restoration of Area 2.
1998	Acquired portions of Areas 5, 10, 11, 12, and 15 (total 3,415 acres).
1998	Completed wetlands restoration on Area 2 (2,000 acres).
1999	Acquired Area 4 (2,500 acres).
1999	Restored Areas 5, 10, 11, 12, and 15.
2000	Acquired portions of Area 6 and other properties (3,200 acres).
2001	Completed acquisition of Priority Area 6 and other properties (3,000 acres)
2001	Completed wetland restoration on Areas 2, 10, and 11 (1,200 acres).

Section 3. Relationships to other projects

Project ID	Title	Description
9603501	Satus Watershed Restoration	Directly compliments this project by protecting and restoring Satus Creek habitats in the lower portion of the watershed.
9803300	Restore Upper Toppenish Creek Watershed	Directly compliments this project by protecting and restoring Toppenish Creek habitats in the lower portion of the watershed.
9705300	Toppenish-Simcoe Instream Flow Restoration and Assessment	Directly compliments this project by protecting and restoring habitats in the lower portion of this project's area.
9901300	Ahtanum Creek Watershed Assessment	Directly compliments this project by protecting and restoring habitats adjacent to this project's area.

Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost
1. Acquire Priority Area properties for restoration and long-term management (2,000-3,000 acres per year).	a. Plan annual activities to determine the properties selected for acquisition.	30	$15,690
	b. Conduct pre-acquisition activities (ownership research, appraisals, etc.).	30	$31,380
2. Protect, restore and/or enhance secured lands to realize an increase in wildlife habitat values.	a. Develop site-specific restoration plans for secured properties according to procedures outlined in project implementation plan.	40	$15,690
	b. Adjust restoration plans according to results achieved in monitoring activities.	40	$5,230
3. Adaptively manage properties to ensure permanent wildlife habitat value.	a. Develop site-specific operations and management plans.	60	$15,690
	b. Adjust site-specific management plans according to results achieved in monitoring activities.	60	$5,230
4. Monitor wildlife habitat conditions to ensure the desired mitigation level is reached and maintained.	a. Develop monitoring and evaluation plans; both site-specific and at landscape scale.	60	$10,460
	b. Adjust monitoring plans according to information gathered each year.	60	$5,230

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
1. Acquire Priority Area properties for restoration and long-term management (2,000-3,000 acres per year).	2003	2006	$220,500
2. Protect, restore and/or enhance secured lands to realize an increase in wildlife habitat values.	2003	2006	$98,000
3. Adaptively manage properties to ensure permanent wildlife habitat value.	2003	2006	$98,000
4. Monitor wildlife habitat conditions to ensure the desired mitigation level is reached and maintained.	2003	2006	$73,500

Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase

FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006
$115,000	$120,000	$125,000	$130,000

Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost	Subcontractor
1. Acquire Priority Area properties for restoration and long-term management (2,000-3,000 acres per year).	a. Secure land in perpetuity with appropriate procedure outlined in project implementation plan (purchase, easement or lease).	30	$1,009,427
2. Protect, restore and/or enhance secured lands to realize an increase in wildlife habitat values.	a. Implement restoration activities identified in site-specific restoration plan.	40	$341,425

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
1. Acquire Priority Area properties for restoration and long-term management (2,000-3,000 acres per year).	2003	2006	$3,570,000
2. Protect, restore and/or enhance secured lands to realize an increase in wildlife habitat values.	2003	2006	$1,190,000

Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase

FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006
$1,250,000	$1,210,000	$1,170,000	$1,130,000

Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost	Subcontractor
1. Adaptively manage properties to ensure permanent wildlife habitat value.	a. Manage habitats according to site-specific plans.	60	$190,684
	b. Adjust management activities according to results achieved in monitoring activities.	60	$47,671

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
1. Adaptively manage properties to ensure permanent wildlife habitat value.	2003	2006	$1,460,000

Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase

FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006
$320,000	$350,000	$380,000	$410,000

Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost
1. Monitor wildlife habitat conditions to ensure the desired mitigation level is reached and maintained.	a. Perform baseline and periodic HEP analysis to measure habitat responses to management activities and to monitor mitigation levels achieved.	60	$5,619
	b. Develop and perform habitat response monitoring according to restoration goals set out in the site-specific management plans.	60	$16,858
	c. Perform wildlife surveys on selected populations to ensure that habitat responses are resulting in wildlife responses.	60	$16,858
	d. Perform landscape-scale habitat and population surveys according to plans developed.	60	$16,858

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
1. Monitor wildlife habitat conditions to ensure the desired mitigation level is reached and maintained.	2003	2006	$290,000

Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006
$65,000	$70,000	$75,000	$80,000

Section 8. Estimated budget summary

Itemized budget

Item	Note	FY 2002 cost
Personnel	FTE: 10.1	$311,000
Fringe	@ .25 of Personnel	$77,750
Supplies		$118,450
Travel		$6,000
Indirect	@ .235 of all previous lines	$120,600
Capital	Nearly all is spent on land acquisition, with some minor amounts spent on farm equipment	$1,016,200
NEPA	NEPA work completed	$0
PIT tags		$0
Subcontractor	For large restoration projects, usually used as cost-share for grants from other sources	$100,000
Other		$0
		$1,750,000

Total estimated budget

Total FY 2002 cost	$1,750,000
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds	$0
Total FY 2002 budget request	$1,750,000
FY 2002 forecast from 2001	$1,750,000
% change from forecast	0.0%

Cost sharing

Organization	Item or service provided	Amount	Cash or in-kind
Salmon Corps	Personnel for restoration activities.	$200,000	in-kind
Pheasants Forever	Native grass seed.	$30,000	cash
Bureau of Indian Affairs	Planning assistance, heavy equipment use.	$20,000	in-kind
Bureau of Reclamation	Funds for wetland restoration.	$35,000	cash
Natural Resources Conservation Service	Funds for wetland and riparian restoration.	$50,000	cash
Yakama Nation	Funds for O&M.	$80,000	cash
U. S. Army	Barbed wire.	$10,000	in-kind

Reviews and recommendations

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

REVIEW:
ISRP Preliminary Review (ISRP 2001-6)

Recommendation:
Fundable - no response required

Date:
Jun 15, 2001

Comment:

Fundable. Most of this ($1.25 mil) is to acquire land at ca. 2-3,000 acres annually, with a goal of 27,000 acres. O & M and M & E are included, and the project offers good cost share from a variety of sources.

From the tour, the review panel was impressed with the results. Excellent success with reestablishing bluebunch wheat grass in what seems to be an innovative, highly effective and popular program. The tour made it clear why it is important to have the ability to manage large tracts of land because that enables effective water management (floodwater delivery). This looks like a strong program.

REVIEW:
CBFWA Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
High Priority

Date:
Aug 3, 2001

Comment:

* Identified by the CBFWA as a proposal that could potentially be implemented as High Priority projects pending crediting resolution with BPA and NWPPC. The CBFWA will formally request a policy level meeting to resolve this issue.

REVIEW:
CBFWA FY02 Budget Review Comments

Recommendation:
Defer

Date:
Aug 3, 2001

Comment:

REVIEW:
ISRP Final Review (ISRP 2001-8)

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Aug 10, 2001

Comment:

REVIEW:
NMFS Review

Recommendation:

Date:
Oct 1, 2001

Comment:

Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESU
Project goal is to protect, restore, and manage 27,000 acres of floodplain along anadromous fish bearing streams in the agricultural portion of the Yakama Nation Reservation (Yakima River, Satus and Toppenish Creeks).

Comments
Project is to acquire land @ 2-3,000 acres annually with a goal of 27,000 acres. O&M and M&E are included, & the project offers good cost share from a variety of sources. Strong program -- ability to manage large tracts of land enables effective water management (floodwater delivery).

Already ESA Req? no

Biop? yes

REVIEW:
BPA Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Rank A

Date:
Oct 16, 2001

Comment:

Perhaps 10 FTE are excessive and more of the funds could go into on-the-ground work. Good leveraging. BPA is working with the Yakama Nation to re-organize the implementation of this wildlife/habitat project that seeks to protect high value habitat located on the Yakama Reservation. This project features land maintenance activities and cultural/archaeological resource documentation once lands are secured.

REVIEW:
NWPPC Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Jan 3, 2002

Comment:

Habitat acquisition proposals.

There are many proposals (both new and ongoing) that focus on habitat acquisition in the Yakima subbasin (25002, 25020, 25024, 25025, 25032, 25078, 199206200, 199603501, and 199705100). Some of these proposals focus on acquisitions of habitat primarily as a strategy to benefit listed anadromous fish, others appear to focus on habitat for wildlife, and others appear to address both. Given the limits available under the target budget for Fiscal Year 2002, each of these projects cannot be fully funded. In order to prioritize among these proposals, the Council may wish to consider the following. First, as stated throughout this memorandum, those proposals that received consensus support by local resource managers that are consistent with the BiOp or are consistent with its off-site mitigation strategy are favored. This would prioritize those acquisition proposals that are exclusively or primarily designed to benefit anadromous fish. Further, the Council should consider its program language that puts a priority on mitigating for wildlife habitat losses in areas of the basin where mitigation efforts have lagged. This program principle was one of the driving considerations for the Council's support for extensive habitat acquisition funding in the Mountain Columbia and Inter-Mountain provinces completed earlier. The Yakima subbasin has received substantial mitigation funding for construction/inundation losses to wildlife habitat in the past, and is not, relatively speaking, an area where wildlife mitigation efforts are lagging behind.

Projects 25024, 25025, 25078, 199603501, 199206200 and 199705100 all have a substantial focus on protecting habitat for listed anadromous fish in the Yakima subbasin. In addition, the first five of those projects were identified in the local collaborative process as priority projects. (See Yakima Issues 1 and 2 above). On the other hand, project 25020, 25002, and 25032, while apparently meritorious projects based on the ISRP and CBFWA reviews, have a substantial wildlife habitat component.

Staff recommendation: In light of the above considerations -- emphasis on anadromous fish, local priorities, the Yakima subbasins relatively advanced level of wildlife mitigation for construction losses -- the staff recommendation is to support funding for the proposals that focus on anadromous fish benefits -- 25002, 25024, 25025, 25078, 199603501, and 199705100. The amounts of funding for each of those proposals have been discussed identified in the issues discussed previously.

Budget effect on base program (Projects 25002, 25020, 25024, 25025, 25032, 25078, 199206200, 199603501, and 199705100):

ProjectNo	FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004
25078	Increase of $875,000	Increase of $875,000	0

REVIEW:
BPA Funding Decision

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Mar 6, 2002

Comment:

McNary Dam has been significantly mitigated for wildlife; however, this project also has anadromous fish benefits. BPA intends to fund ongoing O&M and M&E but recommends deferring additional land acquisition until development of a Yakima Subbasin Plan.

REVIEW:
NWPPC Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Sep 20, 2003

Comment:

Easement project, now proceeding. Delayed implementation.

REVIEW:
Project Sponsor Request for FY04-05

Recommendation:

Date:
Sep 20, 2003

Comment:

No comment submitted.

REVIEW:
NW Power and Conservation Council's FY 2006 Project Funding Review

Funding category:
expense

Date:
May 2005

FY05 NPCC start of year:	FY06 NPCC staff preliminary:	FY06 NPCC July draft start of year:
$1,514,545	$1,514,545	$1,514,545

Sponsor comments: See comment at Council's website