FY21-23 Triennial Budget and Workplan

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Triennial Budget and Work Plan -- Fiscal Years 2021-2023

Long-term Experimental and Management Plan (LTEMP)
The LTEMP provides the basis for decisions that identify management actions and experimental options that will provide a framework for adaptively managing Glen Canyon Dam operations over the next 20 years
LTEMP Science Plan
The LTEMP Science Plan describe a strategy by which monitoring and research data in the natural and social sciences will be collected, analyzed, and provided to DOI, its bureaus, and to the GCDAMP in support of implementation of LTEMP.
Core Monitoring Plan
The GCMRC Core Monitoring Plan (CMP) describes the consistent, long-term, repeated measurements using scientifically accepted protocols to measure status and trends of key resources to answer specific questions. Core monitoring is implemented on a fixed schedule regardless of budget or other circumstances (for example, water year, experimental flows, temperature control, stocking strategy, nonnative control, etc.) affecting target resources.
Monitoring and Research Plan
The GCMRC Monitoring and Research Plan (MRP) specifies (1) core monitoring activities, (2) research and development activities, and (3) long-term experimental activities consistent with the strategies and priorities established in this SSP to be conducted over the next 5 years to address some of the strategic science questions associated with AMWG priority questions.
Budget and Workplan
The GCMRC Triennial Work Plan (TWP) identifies the scope, objectives, and budget for monitoring and research activities planned for a 3-year period. When completed, the triennial work plan will be consistent with the MRP.


FY 2021-2023 Triennial Budget and Work Plan


Links

Documents and Direction

Papers and Presentations

2020


FY 2021-2023 Triennial Budget and Work Plan Process

Resource Topics for 2021-23 TWP

Based on ROD Resource Categories (see page 6 of the ROD)

  • Natural Processes: Not used (is an evaluation of above resources as related to “natural” benchmarks)


LTEMP BiOp Conservation Measures [1] (2016)

Humpback Chub

Ongoing actions:

  • Translocations of humpback chub into tributaries of the Colorado River in Marble and Grand Canyons
  • Spring and fall humpback chub population estimate
  • Control or removal of nonnative fish in tributaries prior to chub translocations
  • Humpback chub refuge population at a federal hatchery
  • Ensure that a stable or upward trend of humpback chub mainstem aggregations can be achieved by:
  1. Annual monitoring of the Little Colorado River humpback chub aggregation (e.g., juvenile chub monitoring parameters).
  2. Annual monitoring in the mainstem Colorado River to determine status and trends of humpback chub.
  3. Periodic surveys to identify additional aggregations and individual humpback chub.
  4. Evaluate existing aggregations and determining drivers of these aggregations.
  5. Explore means of expanding humpback chub populations outside of the Little Colorado River Inflow aggregation.
  • Disease and parasite monitoring

New actions:

  • Feasibility study for translocation of humpback chub into Upper Havasu Creek (above Beaver Falls).
  • Evaluate other tributaries for potential translocations.

Razorback Sucker

Ongoing actions:

  • Larval and small-bodied fish monitoring.

Actions to benefit all native aquatic species

Ongoing actions:

  • Investigate the possibility of renovating Bright Angel and Shinumo Creeks with a chemical piscicide.
  • Remove brown trout (and other nonnative species) from Bright Angel Creek and the Bright Angel Creek Inflow reach of the Colorado River, and from other areas where new or expanded spawning populations develop.

New actions:

  • Explore the efficacy of a temperature control device at the dam to respond to potential extremes in hydrological conditions due to climate conditions that could result in nonnative fish establishment.
  • Preventing the passage of deleterious invasive nonnative fish through Glen Canyon Dam.
  • Fund the NPS and GCMRC on the completion of planning and compliance to alter the backwater slough at River Mile (RM) 12.
  • Develop a plan for implementing rapid response control efforts for newly establishing or existing deleterious invasive nonnative species.
  • Experimental use of TMFs to inhibit brown trout spawning and recruitment in Glen Canyon

Southwestern willow flycatcher and Yuma Ridgway’s rail

  • Conduct Yuma Ridgway’s rail surveys
  • Conduct southwestern willow flycatcher surveys

LTEMP Experimental and Management Actions [2]

TWG Budget Preliminary List Exercise


2020 BAHG meeting notes

First Draft

BAHG meeting #1


BAHG meeting #2


BAHG meeting #3: Other Native Fish Species (other than HBC), Rainbow Trout Fishery, Nonnative Invasive Species, and Riparian Vegetation


BAHG meeting #4: Nutrients, Humpback Chub, Foodbase


BAHG meeting #5: Sediment, Socioeconomics, Cultural Resources


Second Draft

Science Advisors Review

2020 Budget Process Timeline (subject to change)

  • October 21: TWG meeting
  • October 21-January 14: Complete Knowledge Assessment (KA)
  • October 21-December 20: GCMRC to prepare annual report
  • December 20: Annual Report due to TWG
  • January 14: Annual Reporting and TWG meeting to review budget and provide initial guidance to GCMRC and Reclamation
  • January 20-March 18: GCMRC/Rec. to prepare TWP Initial Draft; meet with tribes, Federal Family, and cooperators for input
  • February 6, 11am-noon (MST): BAHG call with GCMRC to discuss priorities and areas of emphasis
  • February 12: AMWG meeting to discuss initial priorities and DOI and Federal family input
  • March 3, 1-3pm (MST): BAHG call with GCMRC to discuss priorities and areas of emphasis post-AMWG
  • March 18: TWP 1st Draft (abstracts) due to DOI and Designee
  • March 18-April 22: DOI/Designee review/comment period
  • April 1: TWP 1st draft (abstracts) due to TWG, BAHG, Science Advisors
  • April 1-April 22: TWG/BAHG/SA review/comment period
  • April 15: TWG meeting to consider draft TWP, including anticipated funding sources
  • April 20, 1-4pm (MDT): BAHG call to discuss 1st draft Rainbow Trout Fishery, Other Native Fish Species (other than HBC), and Nonnative Invasive Species
  • April 21, 1-4pm (MDT): BAHG call to discuss 1st draft Humpback Chub, Nutrients, Water Quality, Foodbase
  • April 22, 1-5pm (MDT): BAHG call to discuss 1st draft Sediment, Tribal and Cultural Resources, Riparian Vegetation, Socioeconomics, Recreation, Hydropower
  • April 23-May 18: GCMRC/Rec. to prepare TWP 2nd Draft
  • May 18: TWP 2nd draft due to BAHG, Science Advisors, DOI agencies, and tribes
  • May 20: AMWG webinar
  • May 20-June 6: BAHG/SA review comment period
  • June 2, 1-4pm (MDT): BAHG call to discuss 2nd Draft Rainbow Trout Fishery, Other Native Fish Species (other than HBC), and Nonnative Invasive Species
  • June 3, 1-4pm (MDT): BAHG call to discuss 2nd Draft Humpback Chub, Nutrients, Water Quality, Foodbase
  • June 4, 1-5pm (MDT): BAHG call to discuss 2nd Draft Sediment, Tribal and Cultural Resources, Riparian Vegetation, Socioeconomics, Recreation, Hydropower
  • June 8, 1-4pm (MDT): BAHG call - SA presentation, identify any issues that would block a recommendation to the TWG
  • June 8 - June 19: GCMRC/Rec. prepare TWP 3rd draft
  • June 15, 1-4pm (MDT): BAHG call - discuss with GCMRC/Rec. on how issues identified in 2nd draft were resolved, develop recommendation to the TWG
  • June 19: TWP 3rd draft due to TWG
  • June 23: TWG meeting to provide a recommendation to the AMWG
  • June 23-July 29: GCMRC/Rec. prepare Final Draft
  • July 29: TWP Final Draft due to AMWG
  • July 29-August 19: AMWG review/comment period
  • August 19: AMWG meeting to provide a recommendation to the SOI
  • September: SOI reviews the budget and work plan
  • October: Fiscal Year begins under the TWP guidance
  • November: Consumer Price Index becomes available. Science and management meeting with DOI and cooperators
  • December: Budget is finalized.