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Council Meeting

Council Meeting

Tuesday, July 12, 2016 to Wednesday, July 13, 2016

360-943-4000

On Monday, July 11, at 3:30pm, some Council Members and staff will attend a site visit of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Nisqually Wildlife Refuge, at 100 Brown Farm Rd N.E., Olympia.

Tuesday, July 12

Fish and Wildlife Committee Meeting – 8:30am – Pine Room

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  • Use of Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) Tag Data to Model Wind River Steelhead Life Cycle Survival: Dan Rawding and Thomas Buehrens, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
  • Development of Wild Steelhead Gene Banks in Washington State: Erik Neatherlin, WDFW
  • Update on Summer Conditions and Fish Returns (panel from June)
  • Report on Sea Lion Predation, Michelle Rub, NOAA
  • Update on Cost Savings Workgroup (Staff)
  • Update on Emerging Priorities (Staff)

Power Committee – 8:30am – Cedar/Hemlock Room

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  • Eight Years into the “Shale Gale” – Natural Gas Supply, Demand & Prices
  • Electric Vehicles and Power System Analysis (a win-win situation?)
  • Puget Sound Energy's IRP Process, Demand Response, and Energy Efficiency, Phillip Popoff, PSE
  • CAISO Expansion and Adequacy Standard
  • Proposed Final Demand Response Advisory Committee Charter and Summary of Comments Received

Council Meeting – 1:30pm – Pine Room

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 1:30 – 1:45pmReports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chairs:  Jennifer Anders, chair, fish and wildlife committee; Tom Karier, chair, power committee; Jim Yost, chair, public affairs committee
1.1:45 – 3:15pmPanel presentation (25mb PDF with presentations) on Salmon Recovery in Washington: Jim Unsworth, Director, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; Jennifer Quan, Government Affairs Director, WDFW; Kaleen Cottingham, Director, Washington Recreation and Conservation Office; David Troutt, Chair, Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board; and Dave Fast, Research Manager, Yakama Nation Fisheries
 3:15 – 3:30Break
2.3:30 – 4:15pmCouncil decision on Final 2021 Adequacy Assessment Report: John Fazio, senior power systems analyst
3. 4:15 – 5pmBriefing on Bonneville Power Administration Energy Efficiency Plan, including draft savings and costs: Richard Génecé, Vice President of Energy Efficiency; and Allie Mace, Energy Efficiency Planning and Evaluation Manager, Bonneville Power Administration

Wednesday, July 13

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at 8am on Wednesday, July 13. 

Continuation of Council Meeting – 8:30am- Pine room

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4.8:30 – 9:15amBriefing on domestication selection and epigenetic mechanisms to reduce fitness loss in hatchery steelhead: Barry Berejikian and Penny Swanson, NOAA
5.9:15 – 10amPresentation on research budgets and reporting as part of the Research Plan development: Tom Karier, Washington Council Member; and Patty O’Toole, program implementation manager
 10 – 10:15amBreak
6.10:15 – 10:45amBriefing on Seattle City Light electric vehicle programs, Brendan O'Donnell, Energy Planning Supervisor, Seattle City Light
7.10:45 – 11:45amPanel on electric vehicles: Steve Douglas, Senior Director, The Auto Alliance; J.J. McCoy, Senior Policy Associate, Northwest Energy Coalition; and John Morris, CEO, Morris Energy Consulting. Jeff Allen, Executive Director, Drive Oregon will be the moderator of the panel
8.11:45amCouncil Business:
  Public comment on any issue before the Council

The times listed for specific agenda items, and the order of those items, are approximate and are subject to change.