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Friday, March 12,2010 3:41 PM

Larry'étevens; Perri Benemelis; Heuslein, Amy; Cantley, Garry; Kurt Dongoske; John Jordan;

Chriitopher S. Harris; James Thiriot; McClain Peterson; Jerry Cox; William E. Davis; Loretta

Jackson-Kelly; Knowles, Glen; Sam Jansen; Nikola Lash; Emily Omama; Jeff English; Andre

potochnik; Cäramanian, Lori; Charley Bulletts; Mary Orton; Matt Kaplinski; Micha-9| Yeatts;

Curtis yazziei John O'Brien; Rick Joñnson; Henderson, Norm; Mietz, Steven; Clifford Barrett;

Leslie James; RnOy Makinster; John W. Shields; Ted Kowalski; Jay C' Groseclose.; Kubly,

Dennis M; Ostler, óon; Whetton, Linda A; Crawford, Marianne; Ryan, Thomas P;Alpine,

Andrea Ej Bennett, Glenn E; Fairley, Helen; Hamill, John F; Kitchell, Kate;Andersen,

Matthew E; Mary Daugherty; Grams, Paul E; Mankiller, Serena; Melis, Ted; Bill Persons;

Robert King; Mary Barger; Clayton Palmer; Kerry Christensen

M3Research L.D. & P.J. Garrett

DRAFT TWG motions for consideration next week

RJ Motion for March 2010 meeting.docx; FY 2011-12 Budget and Hydrograph lnitial.docx;

FSF MOTION.docx; TCD motion.docx

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TWG,

Attached are a series of motions that we will consider at the upcoming TWG meeting:

1. DRAFT TCD motion as described on the agenda' attached.

2. DRAFT of 3 motions from Rick Johnson related to the hydrograph

3. DRAFT Recommendation to AMWG on the Fall Steady Flow Plan - we will consider whether the TWG can approve

this document

4. DRAFT Fy 2011-2012 budget motion; i used last years motion as a template to get us stated'

,l free to use these word files to modifu text, make additions etc and provide them to me at the meeting if you would

: to offer up one of these motions or a modification of them. In drafting these motions my intent is to provide you

with a starting point for your consideration. For example, if you have specific issue of concern you would like highlighted

in the budgeimotion I süggest you utilize the budget motion file and add those on the electronic file so that I can easily

included them on ry coffit"r using the overhead projector. I'll have these files ready as a starting point for our

discussions.

Thanks,

Shane

Shane Capron, Fish Biologist

Western Area Power Administration

P.O. Box 2BI2I3

Lakewood, Co 80228-8213

720-962-7259
Motion #1. To assist in the development of a technically sound 2011 hydrograph

recommendation to the AMWG that is likely to conserve sediment while having the most

beneficial (or least detrimental) impact on other resources, the TWG requests that

GCMRC provide sediment mass balance model results for the following eight scenarios:

Annual release Monthlv oattern Dailv fluctuation

Eoualization Current Tvoical MLFF

Equalization Current Steadv

Equalizat on Eoualized Monthly Volume Tvoical MLFF

Equalizat on Equalized Monthly Volume Steady

8.23 maf Current Tvoical MLFF

8.23 maf Current Steady

8.23 maf Equalized Monthly Volume Tvoical MLFF

8.23 maf Eoualize d Monthly Volume Steadv

The TWG requests this information by the end of May, 2010. The TWG will then discuss

the implications for different releases and make a hydrograph recommendation at its June

2010 meeting. The AMWG will consider the recommendation at its August 2010 meeting

for incorpo.ulio.r into the 20llll2 AMP worþlarVbudget/hydrograph development

process as well as the 2011 AOP.

Motion #Z.If theTWG does not request the mass balance model results from GCMRC,

or if GCMRC declines to provide the model results, then the TWG recommends that the

AMWG rely on the modei results in the 2008 Wright paper ("Is there enough sand?") to

implement Equalized Monthly Volumes and steady daily releases in WY 20II'

Motion #3. The TWG recommends to the AMWG that if sediment inputs exceed the

current BHBF trigger before March 20lL,then dam operations will immediately switch

to equalized monihly volumes and steady flows (if this is not already the operating

scenario), andaBHBF will be implemented in March20II'