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### MEMORANDUM

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TO : Lisa Biddle and Paul Shriner, EPA FROM : Kelly

Meadows and Henry

L atimer DATE: September 3, 2013

SUBJECT: Review o f AFS Journal Contents

As requested , Tetra Tech reviewed the contents of the North American Journal of Fisheries Management published by the American Fisheries Societ y (AFS) for material potentially relevant to the 316(b) rulemaking process

. Thirty

- five articles were i dentified in the recent published literature ; a summary of each article is below.

Many of these articles focused on downstream passage at hy droelectric facilities and
entrainment in irrigation canals. In general, only a small handful of the documents are relevant to 316(b) and even these are not likel y to contrib ute to the rulemaking process. Some studies, however, may prove useful to facilities or permitting authorities in designing screens or developing anal yt ical methods.

**Author(s) Title**  **Notes Useful**  **for 316(b)?** Benn y J . Gallaway

, William J. Gazey

, John G. Cole and Robert G. Fechhelm Estimation of

Potential Impacts from Offshore Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals on Red Snapper and Red Drum Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico: An Alternative Approach Modeled

entrainment losses at offshore LNG facilities Yes, but at Phase III

facilities only

John R. Post, Brett T. van Poorten, Trevor Rhodes, Paul Askey and Andrew Paul Fish Entrainment into

Irrigation Canals: An Analy tical Approach and Application to the Bow R iver, Studied

entrainment in irrigation canals May be; no performance data, but may provide insight to entrainment rates,9

/ 3/20 13 2 **Author(s) Title**  **Notes Useful**  **for 316(b)?**

Alberta, Canada methodologies, etc. Christina Swanson, Paciencia S. Young, and Joseph J. Cech, Jr. Close Encounters

with a Fish Screen: Integrating Phy siological and Behavioral Results to Protect Endangered Species in Exploited Ecosy stems Studied diversion

screen effectiveness May be; not a BTA technology , but may be useful at some facilities

David K. White, Christina Swanson, Paci encia S. Young, Joseph J. Cech Jr., ZhiQiang Chen and M. L event Kavvas Close Encounters

with a Fish Screen II: Delta Smelt Behavior Before and During Screen Contact Studied diversion

screen effectiveness May be; not a BTA technology , but may be useful at so me facilities

G lenn C ada , J ohn S mith, and J essica B usey Use of Pressure

Sensitive Film to Quantify Sources of Injury to Fish Studied

downstream h ydro turbine passage No, but could help

improve fish handling and return
sy stems Andrew J. C arlson and F rank J. R ahel A Basinwide

Perspective on Entrainment of Fish in Irrigation Canals Studied

entrainment at irrigation canals, compared to basinwide population No; not in scope

M ichael D edual Survival of Juvenile

Rainbow Trout Passing through a Francis Turbine S tudied

downstream h ydro turbine passage No; not in scope

J ohn W. F erguson , R andall F. Absolon

, T homas J. C arlson and B enjamin P. S andford Evidence of Delay ed

Mortality on Juvenile Pacific Salmon Passing through Turbines at Columbia River Dams Studied

down stream h ydro turbine passage No; not in scope

Peter B. Mo yl e and Joshua A. I srael Untested

assumptions: effectiveness of screening diversions for conservation of fish populations Literature survey

of fish diversion screening No; focused on

management criteria for diversions

Emily Y. Floy d, Roger Churchwell, and Joseph J. Cech, J r

. Effects of Water

Velocity and Trash Rack Architecture on Juvenile Fish Passage Studied fish

behavior near trash racks No , but may be useful to some facilities9

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and Interactions: A Simulation Martin J. Hamel, Michael L. Brown, and Steven R. Chipps Behavioral

Responses of Rainbow Smelt to in situ Strobe L ights Tested behavioral

technology effectiveness No; not a BTA

technology , but may be useful to some facilities Douglas G. Heimbuch, Ernesto Lorda, Douglas Vaughan, Lawrence W. Barnthouse, Jim Uphoff, Webster Van Winkle, Andy Kahnle, By

ron Young, John Young, Lisa Kline Assessing Coastwide

Effects of Power Plant Entrainment and Impingement on Fish Populations: Atlantic Menhade n Example Attempted to

model large

- scale population effects for a single species No ; adverse

environmental impact ( AEI ) is not defined at the population level

Douglas G. Heimbuch, Dennis J. Dunning, Quentin E. Ross, and Alan F. Blumberg Assessing Potentia l

Effects of Entrainment and Impingement on Fish Stocks of the New York

– New Jersey Harbor Estuary

and Long Island Sound Modeled

population effects No ; AEI is not

defined at the population level

Gary E. Johnson, Steven M. Angeal, Noah S. Adams, Timothy O. Wik Evaluation of a

Prototy pe Surface Flow By pass for Juvenile Salmon and Steelhead at the Powerhouse of Lower Granite Dam, Snake River, Washington, 1996

– 2000 Studied

downstream h ydro
passage No; not in scope

Paul S. Kemp, Mike H. Gessel, and John G. Williams Fine

- Scale

Behavioral Responses of Pacific Salmonid Smolts as They Encounter Divergence and Acceleration of Flow Studied flow

characteristics and effects on migration behavior No, but could help

improve fish handling and return
sy stems

Mary L . Mo ser, Howard T. Pennington, and Jeremy M. Roos Grating Size Needed

to Protect Adult Pacific Lamprey s in the Columbia River Tested screen

mesh sizes for exclusion of downstream No; not in scope9

/ 3/20 13 4 **Author(s) Title**  **Notes Useful**  **for 316(b)?**

Basin passage at h ydro J ames J. R oberts and F rank J. R ahel Irrigation Canals as

Sink Habitat for Trout and Other Fishes in a Wy oming Drainage Studied

entrainment at irrigation canals No; not in scope

R obert H. W ertheimer and A llen F. E vans Downstream Passage

of Steelhead Kelts through Hydroelectric Dams on the L ower Snake and Columbia Rivers Studied

downstream h ydro
passage No; not in scope

Robert H. Wertheimer Evaluation of a

Surface Flow By

pass Sy stem for Steelhead Kelt Passage at Bonneville Dam, Washington Studied

downstream hydro
passage No; not in scope

John R. Young Comparison of

Failure Time Analy sis and Abbott’s Formula for Estimating Survival of Organisms Entrained at Power Stations Entrainment

survival study No; not in scope , as

100% mortality

is assumed

Ronald G. King, Greg Seegert, Joe Vondruska, Elgin S. Perry , Douglas A. Dixon Factors Influencing

Impingement at 15 Ohio River Power Plants Evaluated the

importance of environmental and plant operational factors on imping e ment

. EPRIpublished this report Y es

John R. Young, William P. Dey

, Steven M. Jinks, David T. Mosier Survival of Striped

Bass Entrained into the Cooling Sy stems of Two Hudson River Power Stations Entrainment

survival study based on data from the 1970s and 1980s No; not in scope

Brien P. Rose and Matthew G. Mesa Effectiveness of

Common Fish Screen Materials to Protect Lamprey Ammocoetes Studied the rate of

entrainment and impingement of Pacific lamprey
ammocoetes on five different No, but may be useful to some facilities9

/ 3/20 13 5 **Author(s) Title**  **Notes Useful**  **for 316(b)?**
screen t yp es. Dennis J. Dunning and Christopher W.D. Gurshin Downriver Passage

of Juvenile Blueback Herring near an Ultrasonic Field in the Mohawk River Tested behavioral

t echnology effectiveness No; not in scope

Greg Seegert, Joe Vondruska, Elgin Perry , Doug Dixon Lon gitudinal

Variation in the Ohio River Fish Community Studied fish

community

in the Ohio River near 17 power plants. No, but may be useful to Ohio River facilities

Steven B. Gale, Alexander V. Zale, Christopher G. Clancy Effectiveness of Fish

Screens to Pr event Entrainment of Westslope Cutthroat Trout into Irrigation Canals Studied diversion

screen effectiveness May be; not a BTA technology , but may be useful at some facilities

Lenn y F. Grimaldo, Ted Sommer, Nick Van Ark, Gardner Jones, Erika Holland, Peter B. Mo yl e, Bruce Herbold, Pete Smith Factors Affecting

Fish Entrainment into Massive Water Diversions in a Tidal Freshwater Estuary : Can Fish Losses be Managed? Studied

entrainment into water diversion
structures No, but may be useful to some facilities

T racy R. Leavy and Timothy H. Bonner Relationships among

Swimming Ability

, Current Velocit y Association, and Morphology

for Freshwater Lotic Fishes Studied absolute

and relative swimming speeds of various fish species in a swim tunnel No. Conclusions are

no t predictive of fish responses to velocity changes. Also, the study

did not consider different life stages. Daniel L. Bigbee, Ronald G. King, Kent M. Dixon, Douglas A. Dixon, and Elgin S. Perry Survival of Fish

Impinged on a Rotary Disk Screen Studied 48

- hour

latent mortality

of fish removed from a rotary disk screen at North Omaha Station, NE

. EPRI published this report. May be; not a BTA technology , but may be useful at some facilities

.

John H. Minan The Clean Water Act

and Power Plant Cooling Water Intake Structures Policy document reviewing environmental costs and benefits of various cooling
water Yes, but

policy /economics issues, not biology9

/ 3/20 13 6 **Author(s) Title**  **Notes Useful**  **for 316(b)?** technologies William J. Miller, Bryan F. J. Manly, Dennis D. Murph y, David Fullerton, Rob Roy Ramey An Inve stigation of

Factors Affecting the Decline of Delta Smelt ( Hypomesus transpacificus ) in the Sacramento

- San Joaquin Estuary In cludes

entrainment of delta smelt into diversion water intakes as a factor in population decline No, not in scope

Daniel G. MacDonald Enhanced Surface

Cooling as an Alternative for Thermal Discharges Presents a

preliminary

study of enhanced surface cooling as an alternative to cooling towers No. Relevant to

316(a) not 316(b).

J. J. Hoover, K.A. Bo ys en, J.A. Beard, H. Smith Assessing the R isk of

E ntrainment by C utterhead D redges
to Juvenile L ake S turgeon (

Acipenser fulvescens ) and Juvenile P allid S turgeon ( Scaphyrhyncus albus ) Calculates an

index of entrainment risk based on rheotaxis, swimming endurance, and behavioral data. No, but may be useful to some facilities.

J. Wilson White, Kerry J. Nickols, Linden Clarke, and John L . Largier Larval Entrainment

in Cooling Water Intakes: Spatially Explicit Models Reveal Effects on Benthic Metapopulations and Shortcomings of Tradition al Assessments Explores models

for estimating the population

- level impacts of larval entrainment for marine

ecos ys tems No, focuses on

population

- level effects

.

Jinho Chae, Hy

un Woo Choi, Woo Jin Lee, Dongsung Kim, and Jae Hac Lee Distribution of a

Pelagic Tunicate, Salpa fusiformis, in Warm Surface Current of the Eastern Korean Waters and its Impingement on Cooling Water Intakes of Uljin Nuclear Power Plant Explores

environmental factors contributing the impingement of S. fusiformis

. No, not in scope.9

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