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Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group 

Action Item Tracking Report 

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Updated: Oct. 21, 2009 

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. 

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. 

Glen Knowles Open 

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. 

Mary Barger

Shane 

Capron 

Closed 
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Action Number

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Action Item

* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

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 Tri-State 

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. 

9/30/09: The “Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Renewable 

Electrical Generation Technologies Compared to the WECC 

Baseline” Report was distributed and Bill Carsell made a PPT 

presentation. 

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. 

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 

Clayton 

Palmer 

GCMRC Open 
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Action Number

(year.mo.dayno.) 

Action Item

* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

work group.

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

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 remains a continuing issue.

Reclamation 

USGS 

Note: 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. 

9/29/09: Shane said there is still no chair. Is there anyone who 

wants to chair this? Sam said that as part of the In/Out CPIAHG, 

it might be good to keep this AHG on the books. 

TWG ASAP Closed 

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. 

9/29/09: The names were identified as above per Helen. 

Linda 

Whetton 9/29/09 Closed 

2009:9-29-30(1) 9/29/09: TWG members interested in serving as chair of the 

HBC AHG should let Shane or Linda know as soon as possible. TWG ASAP Open 

2009:9-29-30(2) 

9/29/09: Dr. Garrett will send the criteria the SAs are using to the 

TWG (via Linda) and will need comments back to him as soon 

as possible but no later than November 1, 2009. 

Dr. Garrett 11/1/09 Open 

2009:9-29-30(3) 

9/29/09: Shane Capron and John Hamill will prepare a document 

describing the 2-year budget process and how it will be done. 

They will report back to the TWG at the next meeting (January 

2010). 

Shane 

Capron 

John Hamill 

1/21/09 Open 

2009:9-29-30(4) 

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. TWG 1/21/10 Open 

2009:9-29-30(5) 

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. 

Matthew 

Andersen Jan. 2010 Open 

2009:9-29-30(6) 

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

past TCD and sediment augmentation documents. Linda 

Whetton ASAP Open