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Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group 

Action Item Tracking Report 

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Updated: June 23, 2009 

Action Number 

(year.mo.day-no.) 

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 that 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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Action Number 

(year.mo.day-no.) 

Action Item 

* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

2006.11.8-9 

11/8/06: Mary Barger will inform the TWG when 

WAPA would be able to make a presentation on the 

results of the Lifecycle Impact Assessment Report. 

4/2/07: Mary asked to be put on the agenda for the 

next TWG meeting to make a presentation. See 

meeting minutes for more details. 

6/25/07: Mary said that hopefully by the next TWG 

meeting, it will have been approved and through the 

process. She will talk to Kurt more about whether it 

should be presented to the AMWG first. 

10/2/07: Mary will make a presentation at the next 

TWG meeting. 

12/4/07: The report is being peer reviewed and that 

needs to be completed before it can be presented. It 

may be possible to schedule a presentation at the 

next TWG meeting. 

4/8/08: Mary said she talked with Clayton about this. 

They don’t have funding to do another peer review, 

but just got money again. Two weeks ago they made 

some minor changes to the report and it’s going for 

out for peer review in May. As soon as the review is 

completed, they should be able to make a 

presentation. 

7/16/08: Mary said they are having an issue with 

contracting for the peer review but there will be a 

presentation made at the Science Symposium. (Nov 

2008). 

10/15/08: Clayton has engaged a consultant to look 

at the scientific basis of claims for renewable 

electrical power. The report is being peer reviewed 

by Argonne Labs and should be available in a month. 

(See minutes for more details.) 

3/16/09: Clayton said WAPA, in partnership with TriState Generation and a Cooperative, undertook a 

science piece of research in which they’re looking at 

a methodology to evaluate the question of green 

electrical power. A research time was hired from 

California to take a look at whether there is a 

scientific way to approach that. In addition, WAPA 

has been working with an American Standards Board 

to see if they can get a standard task that anyone 

could use to make determinations on green electrical 

power. The study is a case study and uses four 

different electrical generating technologies. 

6/22/09: Shane said that Clayton was looking for a 

review on that and suspects that hasn’t occurred. 

Mary Barger

Shane Capron 

March 2009

June 2009

Open 

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. 

Matthew 

Andersen ? Open 
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Action Number 

(year.mo.day-no.) 

Action Item 

* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

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.

Clayton Palmer 

GCMRC 

(Scott Wright) 

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. 

Reclamation 

USGS 

Some 

documents were 

posted on 

9/18/09 

Open 

2009:6-22-23(3) 

6/22/09: TWG members interested in chairing the 

HBC AHG (replacing Glen Knowles) should let 

Shane or Linda know. Also, any members who wish 

to be added or removed from the current ad hoc 

groups should let Shane or Linda know as well. 

TWG ASAP Open 

2009:6-22-23(4) 

6/22/09: Linda will send out an e-mail asking for 

names from members who want to chair the 

Geomorphological Ad Hoc Group. 

E-mail from Helen Fairley on 9/17/09: Several TWG 

and AMWG members sent me messages earlier this 

summer indicating their interest in being on the 

geomorphic ad hoc group. TWG members who 

expressed interest were Mary Barger, Mike Yeatts, 

Kerry Christensen, and Kurt Dongoske. AMWG 

members were Leslie James (to be represented by 

Bob Mussetter) and Andre Potochnik. Jen Dierker 

(NPS) also expressed interest in participating. 

Linda Whetton 9/29/09 Open