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Dam Technical Work Group 

Action Item Tracking Report 

(U:\c5amp\uc\rm\amp\twg\mtgs\10jan21\Action_Items.docx)

Updated: March 15, 2010 

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Action Item

* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

2006.05.24-25 

5/24/06: Scope of Work is being finalized and 

Connie Keeler Foster with Dexter Fish Hatchery is 

slated to begin the work. Glen thinks they are on 

schedule and a report should be ready in Dec 2007. 

8/2/06: Glen has been trying to set up a meeting 

with the HBC AHG. He will get with the members at 

this meeting to set up a time to meet in late August. 

4/2/07: Glen said the Genetics Management Plan

is scheduled for completion in December 2007. 

6/25/07: As above. 

10/2/07: As above. 

12/4/07: BOR was involved with contracting and is 

cooperating with the review. No schedule yet for 

review but draft has been delivered. Timeline hasn’t 

been set yet but should be returned to Connie 

Keeler Foster in Dec. or early January with 

comments. Final by spring 2009 at the latest. The 

draft report is currently going through an internal 

review and should be given to the TWG shortly. 

4/8/08: Glen said they’re conducting a second 

internal review. Once that is completed, it will go 

through a technical review. They’re making good 

progress and the peer review should be completed 

in 4-6 weeks. He believes a draft document will be 

ready and for the TWG at their next meeting and 

then forwarded to the AMWG. 

7/16/08: Glen said they are still conducting their 

review and will have a finalized plan this year. They 

are working with GCRMC to get a technical review 

and will bring the Plan to the TWG by the end of this 

calendar year. 

10/15/08: Glen said Connie Keeler-Foster 

completed a third draft which has been given to 

GCMRC to conduct a separate scientific peer 

review and he’s hopeful that will get done in the next 

few months. 

3/16/09: Sam Spiller said Matthew Andersen with 

GCMRC has completed a peer review of the plan 

with four independent peer reviews, two geneticists 

and two hatchery managers. These reviews are 

substantiated but should improve the plan. Connie 

Keeler-Foster has received the reviews and is 

revising the plan. There is no date for the final 

version but they are working to complete ASAP. 

6/22/09: Glen said Matthew Andersen led a peer 

review of the draft that Connie Keeler-Foster had 

written. Four peer reviewers, 2 geneticists, and 2 

hatchery program biologists reviewed the document 

and provided extensive comments. The document 

should be finalized this summer. Glen said they will 

also consider providing a response to comments 

document to the TWG as to what the reviewers’ 

comments were. 

Glen Knowles Open 
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* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

9/29/09: Sam Spiller said they intend to do the last 

internal review by early January 2010. He wants to 

be responsive to the TWG’s concerns. The TWG 

would like to see the reviewer’s comments. 

1/21/10: Glen said the report is in the last stages of 

finalization. GCMRC is one of the peer reviewers so 

it’s been slowed down. He hopes to have it finalized 

in the first quarter of this year. 

3/15/10: Glen said they are still working on it. It’s going 

through an internal review within FWS. Hopefully at the 

next TWG it will be finished. 

2008:10-15-16(3) 

10/15/08: GCMRC's development of a journal article 

on the source (natal origin) of trout downstream of 

Lee's Ferry. 

6/22/09: Matthew said they won’t be putting 

together a journal article in a really short time frame. 

They’ve had some conversations with Carl Walters 

and Carl is optimistic that something could be 

developed that would be of interest to the primary 

literature. He will talk about some projects that will 

provide more information on this issue. 

9/29/09: This was covered under the GCRMC 

Updates, but the article still needs to be produced 

and distributed to the TWG. 

1/21/10: John Hamill said he wasn’t sure there 

would be a journal article or a file report. The 

commitment would be to pull together all the 

disparate pieces on what they know and don’t know. 

It is still in the workplan and it’s still their intent to do. 

Shane suggested putting this on the BAHG issues 

for more clarification. 

3/15/10: John said it hasn’t been written yet but 

they did have a workshop in Florida with Carl 

Walters which included looking at trout work in Lees 

Ferry but their intent is to take the available 

information and put into a open journal report and 

then do a publication. The commitment was to have 

a report in FY2011. A new study has been proposed 

in FY2011 to look at natal origins and removing trout 

in the upstream areas. 

Matthew 

Andersen Open 

2009:6-22-23(1) 

6/22/09: GCMRC requests that Western work with 

interested TWG members and a GCMRC modeling 

representative (Scott Wright) to develop hourly 

hydrographs that would serve as input to the shifting 

rating curve sediment model for selected modeling 

scenarios. Specific modeling scenarios would be 

chosen by this work group.

9/29/09: This was covered under the GCRMC 

Updates. 

1/21/10: John Hamill said this would be covered in 

more detail at the Ecosystem Workshop. 

3/15/10: This will be handled in the modeling/ 

ecosystem workshop in April 2010. 

Clayton Palmer 

GCMRC Open 

2009:6-22-23(2) 

6/22/09: A greater effort will be made to distribute 

meeting materials to the TWG within the 10-day 

deadline and no action will be taken on agenda 

items if the materials aren’t delivered on time. 

9/29/09: This is a continuing issue. 

Reclamation 

USGS Open 
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* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

1/21/10: This is a continuing issue. 

3/15/10: This is a continuing issue. 

2009:9-29-30(1) 

9/29/09: TWG members interested in serving on the 

Budget Ad Hoc Group should send their names to 

Linda or Dennis by November 2, 2009. 

1/21/10: The request was reissued on 1/14/10. The 

current BAHG membership includes: Mary Barger, 

Cliff Barrett/Leslie James, Kerry Christensen, Norm 

Henderson, Rick Johnson, Glen Knowles, Steve 

Mietz, Larry Stevens, and Mike Yeatts. 

TWG 1/21/10 Closed 

2009:9-29-30(4) 

9/29/09: GCMRC will report back to the TWG on the 

feasibility of doing the flow monitoring work for the 

fall steady flows project, if funding can be secured, 

and if permitting will be available. 

1/21/10: John Hamill said there were two 

recommended items to add to the steady flows plan. 

One related to doing extra temperature collection 

data and some thermal imagery during the study. 

He’s not sure how this work would be funded and 

said the fall steady flows plan needs to be approved 

first. 

3/15/10: John is committed to doing the work in 

FY2010. 

Matthew 

Andersen Jan. 2010 Open 

2009:9-29-30(5) 

9/29/09: Reclamation will send out links to the T WG 

regarding past TCD and sediment augmentation 

documents. 

10/19/09: E-mail sent with links to documents 

prepared for TCD and the LTEP process. However, 

many of the documents are linked within the AMWG 

& TWG meeting folders on the AMP website. For 

example: 

1) The TCD Scoping report can be found at: 

http://www.usbr.gov/uc/envdocs/reports/TCD_Scopi

ngRpt

2) The Grand Canyon Sediment Augmentation 

Feasibility PPT at: 

http://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/amp/twg/mtgs/06jan25/At

tach_04.pdf

3) The Colorado River Ecosystem Sediment 

Augmentation Appraisal Engineering Report at: 

http://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/amp/twg/mtgs/07apr02/A

ttach_16.pdf

4) GCMRC LTEP Workshop (April 2007): 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1153/

5) Science Advisors’ Report from August 2003 

Meeting: 

http://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/amp/amwg/mtgs/03

aug13/Attach_08a.pdf

6) Guiding Mission for TCD Implementation, 

Enhance Habitat for Native Fish Chub PPT: 

http://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/amp/amwg/mtgs/03

aug13/Attach_08b.pdf

Dennis Kubly ASAP Closed 
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* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

2010:03-15-16(1) Reclamation (Dennis Kubly) will obtain status of 

ongoing tribal consultation efforts from the 

Washington Office and advise the TWG members 

accordingly. 

Dennis Kubly June 2010 

2010:03-15-16(2) John Hamill will provide a timeline to the TWG for 

when the revised Draft Core Monitoring Plan will be 

done. 

John Hamill June 2010 

2010:03-15-16(3) Helen will send out information on the 

Geomorphological Workshop by the end of April. Helen Fairley April 30, 2010 Closed 

2010:03-15-16(4) Kurt wants an update from the Washington Office 

on continued tribal consultation. Dennis Kubly June 2010 

2010:03-15-16(5) 

Approval of the Fall Steady Flow Plan has been 

tabled until the TWG has had an opportunity to read 

the document and have more discussion at the 

Saguaro Lake Workshop in April. It will be further 

discussed at the TWG meeting in June. 

Dennis Kubly June 2010 

2010:06-29-30(1) 

2010:06-29-30(2)