117 



40 



Rationale - The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) currently has a 

 Recovery Team working on a recovery plan to address the needs of listed 

 species in the Snake River Basin. BPA will be called upon the address certain 

 measures that will be specified in the Recovery Team's plan. This contract is 

 for the purpose of performing preparatory analysis to address these measures. 

 The analysis will review the resulu of the ongoing actions now being 

 undertaken by BPA. BPA's intention is to be able to have data available to 

 discuss the Recovery Team's plan when it is released. 



Project Title 



Model Coordination 



FY92 



SISOK 



FY93 



$0 



FY94 



$250K 



Rationale - The purpose of this contrart is to fund various parties to review the 

 various anadromous fish data modeling aaivities being undertaken in the 

 region and to understand the various modeling approaches being used Those 

 parties being ftinded are staff at the state resource managing agencies of 

 Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the Columbia River Intertribal Fish 

 Conunission representing the region's tribes, and the Northwest Power 

 Planning Council. While this is not a specific Council program measure, the 

 Council did participate in making the final decision. 



It is my understanding the BPA is currently reducing program budgets 

 throughout the agency. Do you intend to defer implementation of the 

 Northwest Power Planning Council's Strategy for Salmon? If so, in what areas 

 and what savings would result in FY 1994? Do you intend to defer any non- 

 program measures? If so, in what areas and what savings would resuU in FY 

 1994? 



In an eflFort to minimize the rate increase slated to go into effect on October 1, 

 1993, all BPA program managers are examining impacts of cuts ranging from 



