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Dam Technical Work Group 

Action Item Tracking Report 

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 Updated: Jan. 18, 2011 

Action Number

(year.mo.dayno.) 

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. 

Sam Spiller Closed 
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Action Number

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Action Item

* 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. 

6/20/10: Sam Spiller will provide an update at the 

next TWG meeting. 

11/15/10: Glen said BOR accepted the final 

Genetics Plan from FWS and will send it to the 

TWG in the next few weeks. FWS will present the 

final plan at the January 2011 TWG meeting. 

UPDATE: The report from FWS, “A Genetic 

Management Plan for Captive and Translocated 

Endangered Humpback Chub in the Lower 

Colorado River Basin” was e-mailed to the AMWG 

and TWG on January 11, 2011. The FWS will give a 

presentation on the plan at a future TWG meeting. 

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. 

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

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

6/29/10: This is a continuing issue. 

11/15/10: Shane said he felt there was a good effort 

in identifying the agenda items earlier, but more 

attention needs to be made in getting documents 

posted earlier as well. 

Reclamation & 

USGS Open 

2010:03-15-16(1) 

3/15/10: Reclamation (Dennis Kubly) will obtain 

status of ongoing tribal consultation efforts from the 

Washington Office and advise the TWG members 

accordingly. 

6/29/10: Glen said Reclamation has been doing a 

lot of consultation work and met with the Pueblo of 

Zuni on June 3, 2010. An update will be provided at 

the next TWG meeting. 

11/15/10: Glen said BOR continues to consult with 

the tribes on a number of different issues. Some of 

the AMP tribes are cooperating agencies on the 

non-native fish control EA as well as the HFE 

Protocol EA. They continue to consult individually 

on both of those for effects to tribal resources. Most 

recently Ms. Castle met with the Pueblo of Zuni on 

8/13/10. (See minutes for additional details.) 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Closed 

2010:03-15-16(4) 

Kurt wants an update from the Washington Office 

on continued tribal consultation plan. 

6/29/10: Kurt said he would like to discuss his 

concerns under “New Business” today. 

11/15/10: Kurt expressed his concerns (see 

minutes). Glen will follow up and report back to the 

TWG. 

Dennis Kubly

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 
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Action Number

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Action Item

* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

2010:03-15-16(5) 

3/15/10: 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. 

6/29/10: Glen Knowles will provide a Fall Steady 

Flow AHG update at the next TWG meeting. 

11/15/10: Closed pending further discussion at 

today’s meeting. 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Closed 

2010:06-29-30(6) 

6/29/10: Reclamation will report back to the TWG on 

the status of filling in behind Mike Berry and how 

Reclamation intends to handle compliance and 

contracting issues in the interim. Reclamation will 

also report on the status of the treatment plan. 

11/15/10: Glen said Reclamation is still working to 

fill the regional archeologist position. (Update: 

Vacancy Announcement Open period = 12/3/10 - 

1/13/11). A PA meeting should be held in January 

2011 as well as more discussion on the canyon 

treatment plan. The CRAHG will also try to meet in 

January. (See minutes for additional details.) 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 

2010:06-29-30(2) 

6/29/10: Reclamation will provide an update at the 

next in-person TWG meeting on the status of 

reports required under the GCPA, e.g., the Report 

to Congress, etc. (per Norm’s request) 

11/15/10: Glen said there is a similar item on the 

AMWG’s list of action items. He said at the last 

meeting it was acknowledged that the 2009-10 

Report to Congress was completed and that was 

distributed to the AMWG and TWG members on 

8/3/10. Reclamation is now working on the 2010-11 

Report to Congress and a draft should be 

distributed in the next few weeks for review. 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Closed 

2010:06-29-30(3) 

6/29/10: Norm Henderson will keep the TWG 

informed of NPS actions related to non-native fish 

control in Grand Canyon and provide updates from 

NPS fish management workshops. 

11/15/10: Shane said he wasn’t sure if this action 

item related to the work being done at Bright Angel. 

(See minutes for additional details.)

Norm Henderson Oct. 2010 Closed 

2010:06-29-30(4) 

6/29/10: Reclamation (Dennis/Glen) will set up a 

meeting with the CRAHG and PA to discuss further 

directions and budget concerns. 

11/15/10: Closed pending discussion on action item 

# 2010:06-29-30(6) 

Glen Knowles ASAP Closed 

2010:06-29-30(5) 

6/29/10: Reclamation (Dennis/Glen) will check with 

the Denver Office staff on the possibility of them 

preparing an administrative history on the Glen 

Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program and 

what the associated staff costs might be. They will 

report back to the TWG at the next meeting. 

11/15/10: Glen said the AMWG passed a motion at 

their last meeting tasking the POAHG to develop an 

RFP for an annotated administrative history of the 

AMP and that TWG make a recommendation on the 

subject to AMWG by the summer 2011 AMWG 

meeting. Mike Yeatts said he didn’t feel there would 

be any action before January. He said if any TWG 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 
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Action Number

(year.mo.dayno.) 

Action Item

* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

members want to assist the POAHG, they should 

contact him. 

2010:06-29-30(6) 

6/29/10: Reclamation, GCMRC, and NPS will 

discuss the funding of Administrative Support for 

NPS Permitting (line 40) and report back to the 

TWG. 

11/15/10: Glen said Reclamation worked with 

GCMRC and NPS to fund the Park at FY2010 levels 

in the FY2011 budget. 

Glen Knowles 

John Hamill 

Norm Henderson 

ASAP Closed 

2010:11-15-10(1) 

11/15/10: Jan Balsom will send the dates on the 

NPS proposal to Linda in order to keep the TWG 

informed of upcoming activities. 

1/12/11: Jan provided the following link to NPS 

compliance list documents list: 

http://www.nps.gov/archieve/grca/compliance/ 

Jan Balsom Jan 2011 Closed 

2010:11-15-10(2) 11/15/10: Reclamation/GCMRC will provide the 

revised FY11-12 BWP to the TWG. USBR/GCMRC Feb 2011 Open 

2010:11-15-10(3) 

11/15/10: Jan Balsom will inform Shane on the 

coordination efforts between NPS and GCMRC on 

what vegetation monitoring is being done. 

1/18/10: Per Jan, the NPS will provide an update on 

the vegetation monitoring at the AR Meeting. 

Jan Balsom Jan 2011 Closed 

2010:11-15-10(4) 

11/15/10: Comments required on the 

Socioeconomics Table 1 are due to Helen by Nov. 

26, 2010 

TWG 11/26/10 

Closed 

(date 

passed)