GCDAMP FY21-23 Triennial 

Budget and Work Plan (BOR): 

Development & Comments 

June TWG Meeting

June 23, 2020
Agenda

• Development Process

o Priorities and Constraints

o Approach

o Stakeholder Input Opportunities

o Stakeholder Input Summary

• Proposed Triennial Budget

o Reclamation Budget

o GCMRC Budget 

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Guidance, Compliance & Other 

Considerations

• DOI Guidance Memo

o Focus on implementing 2016 LTEMP ROD

o Goals & Monitoring Metrics

o Basin-wide efforts (DCPs, Interim Guidelines)

• Compliance Obligations

o GCPA: Consultation, Research and Monitoring

o NHPA: LTEMP Programmatic Agreement and HPP

o NEPA: LTEMP FEIS

o ESA: LTEMP Biological Opinion

• Funding 

o Uncertainty re: source, amount

o Authorized uses – actions related to dam operations within CRE

• LTEMP Litigation 

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Budget Development Approach

• Start w/ 2018-2020 TWP

• Assume funding flat at FY19/FY20 level

• Prioritize DOI guidance and LTEMP goals

• Incorporate stakeholder input

• Strategize for Uncertainty

Identify tasks that are: 

o Scalable or readily consolidated

o Time-sensitive (near-term, frequent, condition dependent)

o Address critical knowledge gaps 

o Present High/Low Compliance Risk 

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Stakeholder Input Opportunities

• Feedback Received to Date

o January TWG Meeting (verbal)

o February AMWG Meeting (verbal)

o BAHG Calls # 1-9 (verbal)

o Anglers, GCWC, Hualapai, CREDA, Nevada, NPS, River Guides, 

Hopi, Zuni, AZGFD, WAPA, USFWS (written)

o Science Advisor (verbal, written)

• Ongoing discussions

o Meetings w/ Tribal Representatives (Oct 23; Mar 4-5; Apr 27-28; 

May 6)

o DOI Federal Family (Feb 14; Apr 3; Apr 9)

o Secretary’s Designee (Mar 17)

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Draft GCDAMP Budget

• Total Annual Budget = $11.36M

o 80% GCMRC = $9,088,000

o 20% Reclamation = $2,272,000

• Reclamation Budget

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Draft GCDAMP Budget

• Total Annual Budget = $11.36M

o 80% GCMRC = $9,088,000

o 20% Reclamation = $2,272,000

• Reclamation Budget

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Stakeholder Feedback

Proposed Adjustment:

o Facilitator and Notetaker (-)

o Science Advisor (+/-)

o Temp Control Evaluation (+)

o Fish Passage Prevention (+)

Areas of Interest / Proposals for Inclusion:

o Dissolved Oxygen monitoring & mitigation 

o Support for NHPA Programmatic Agreement activities

o Spring power plant capacity flows

o Monitoring Metrics

o Brown Trout Incentivized Harvest at Lees Ferry

o Archive and/or update LTEMP Models

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Draft BOR Budget: Next Steps 

Additional Edits:

o Discussion of Funding Uncertainties and Risk

 DOI Agencies to develop draft Priorities in FY21

o NHPA Projects specified and refined

o Temp Control Evaluation – Update in June?

o Fish Passage Prevention – Update in June?

o Science Advisor Review and Feedback

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Draft Reclamation Budget 

• Compliance  GCPA & NEPA consultation requirement

• Scalable  fewer meetings; in-person to virtual

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FY 2021-2023 Proposed Budget - Reclamation Only FY 2021

(*same FY22, FY23)

A Adaptive Management Work Group $ 215,000 

A.1 Adaptive Management Work Group Costs (BOR) $ 75,000 

A.2 AMWG Member Travel Reimbursement $ 20,000 

A.3 AMWG Reclamation Travel $ 20,000 

A.4 AMWG Facilitation Contract $ 60,000 

A.5 Public Outreach - Reclamation public affairs, PAOG $ 25,000 

A.5 Public Outreach Administrative History

A.6 AMWG Other $ 15,000 

B Technical Working Group $ 200,000 

B.1 TWG Program Management (BOR) $ 120,000 

B.2 TWG Member Travel Reimbursement $ 25,000 

B.3 TWG Reclamation Travel $ 20,000 

B.4 TWG Chair Reimbursement/Facilitation $ 25,000 

B.5 TWG Other $ 10,000 
• Compliance  NEPA and ESA requirements

• Condition dependent (C.5); Flexibility w/ timing, frequency 

• C.6  emergency response for ESA, $1.7M

Draft Reclamation Budget 

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FY 2021-2023 Proposed Budget - Reclamation Only FY 2021 FY 2022 FY2023

C Program Management, ESA Compliance, and 

Management Actions $ 1,150,000 $ 1,222,000 $ 1,125,000 

C.1 Administrative Support for NPS Permitting $ 120,000 $ 125,000 $ 125,000 

C.2 Contract Administration $ 70,000 $ 120,000 $ 70,000 

C.3 Integrated Stakeholder River Trip $ - $ 50,000 $ -

C.4 Science Advisors Program $ 150,000 $ 150,000 $ 150,000 

C.5 Experimental Management Fund $ 350,000 $ 350,000 $ 350,000 

C.6 Native Fish Conservation Contingency Fund carryover from previous years

C.7 Experimental Vegetation Treatment - Grand Canyon $ 170,000 $ 170,000 $ 170,000 

C.8 Experimental Vegetation Treatment - Glen Canyon $ 65,000 $ 65,000 $ 65,000 

C.9 Evaluation of means to prevent fish passage through GCD $ 5,000 $ 5,000 $ 5,000

C.10 Evaluation of temperature control methods at GCD $ 15,000 $ - $ -

C.11 Ridgway Rail and Southwest Willow Flycatcher monitoring $ 10,000 $ 7,000 $ 10,000 

C.12* Monitoring Metrics Development and Tracking $ 50,000 $ 35,000 $ 35,000 

C.13* Program Management $ 145,000 $ 145,000 $ 145,000 
Draft Reclamation Budget 

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FY 2021-2023 Proposed Budget - Reclamation Only FY 2021 FY 2022 FY2023

D Cultural Resources $ 650,000 $ 780,000 $ 635,000 

D.1 Reclamation Cultural Resources Program Management $ 120,000 $ 120,000 $ 120,000 

D.2 Support to Reclamation for cultural resources compliance $ 40,000 $ 40,000 $ 40,000 

D.3 Cultural Resources Monitoring - Grand Canyon $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 50,000 

D.4 Cultural Resources Monitoring - Glen Canyon $ 30,000 $ 30,000 $ 30,000 

D.5 Traditional Cultural Property Documentation $ - $ - $ -

D.6* Zuni and NPS Data Recovery and Community Outreach Pilot $ 20,000 $ 150,000 $ 100,000 

D.7* Monitoring Paiute Places on the Colorado: An Educational Resource $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ -

D.8* Hualapai Agricultural and Gardening Practices along the Colorado River $ 45,000 $ 45,000 $ -

D.9* Hopi Grand Canyon (Öngtupqa) Oral History Project $ 45,000 $ 45,000 $ 45,000 

D.10* Southern Paiute Participation in the Glen Canyon AMP: 

25 Years of Monitoring and Education, 1996-2021 $ - $ - $ -

D.11* Hualapai Shared Histories Along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon $ - $ - $ -

D.12 Cultural sensitivity Training Development $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 50,000 

D.13 Contingency fund for NHPA section 106 compliance $ 25,000 $ 25,000 $ 25,000 

D.14 Tribal resources monitoring $ 175,000 $ 175,000 $ 175,000 

D.15 Tribal participation in AMP (not funded by power revenues) $ 475,000 $ 475,000 $ 475,000 

• Compliance  NHPA Section 106, NEPA, GCPA 

• D.13  contingency for NHPA = $300K at EOY
Draft Reclamation Budget

Unfunded and Partially Funded Proposals

• 2018-2020 Funds Remaining to Support Project D

• Shelf-ready projects eligible for end of year funding

• D.12 is high priority; budget and scope to be refined 
Lee Traynham

Bureau of Reclamation

ltraynham@usbr.gov

(801) 524-3752 (office)

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