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Dam Technical Work Group 

Action Item Tracking Report 

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Updated: June 30, 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. 

Sam Spiller 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. 

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

next TWG meeting. 

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. 

6/29/10: This will be updated at today’s meeting 

when GMCRC talks about the Ecosystem 

Workshop. This item will be closed. 

Matthew 

Andersen Closed 

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

6/29/10: This was discussed at the Ecosystem 

Modeling Workshop held April 13-15, 2010. 

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. 

Reclamation 

USGS Open 

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 Flow Plan needs to be 

approved first. 

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

FY2010. 

6/29/10: John said the Plan is still open. GCMRC 

will address the concerns on the thermisters as part 

of their updates today. 

Matthew 

Andersen Closed 

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. 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 

2010:03-15-16(2) 

3/15/10: John Hamill will provide a timeline to the 

TWG for when the revised Draft Core Monitoring 

Plan will be done. 

6/29/10: This is on today’s agenda so this item was 

closed. 

John Hamill Closed 

2010:03-15-16(3) 

3/15/10: Helen will send out information on the 

Geomorphological Workshop by the end of April. 

6/29/10: Helen said this would be part of the 

GCMRC Updates discussion. 

Helen Fairley 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. 

Dennis Kubly Oct. 2010 Open 

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. 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 

2010:06-29-30(1) 

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 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 
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* Additional information in Meeting Minutes Assigned to Due Date Status 

also report on the status of the treatment plan.

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) 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 

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. 

Norm Henderson Oct. 2010 Open 

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. 

Glen Knowles ASAP Open 

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. 

Glen Knowles Oct. 2010 Open 

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. 

Glen Knowles 

John Hamill 

Norm Henderson 

ASAP Open