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Chelan PUD’s Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP)

Chelan PUD’s Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP). Chuck Peven Chelan PUD. What is the HCP?. Management of anadromous salmonids and steelhead Performance-based agreements No Net Impact (NNI) to Plan Species. Why HCP?. ESA (Endangered Species Act) protection

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Chelan PUD’s Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP)

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  1. Chelan PUD’s Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP) Chuck Peven Chelan PUD

  2. What is the HCP? • Management of anadromous salmonids and steelhead • Performance-based agreements • No Net Impact (NNI) to Plan Species

  3. Why HCP? • ESA (Endangered Species Act) protection • Manages our risk (financial and political) • Maximize effectiveness and minimize operational impacts • Ensures 50 years of protection for hydroelectric impacts to salmon and steelhead

  4. HCP Partners • Signed in 2002 by: • Chelan County PUD • National Marine Fisheries Service • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife • Colville Confederated Tribes • Yakama Nation (April 2004)

  5. HCP Components 100 % No Net Impact 91 % 7 % 2 % Passage Survival Hatchery Tributary Habitat

  6. HCP committee structure

  7. Hatchery Program Hatchery (7%) Hatchery Operations WDFW Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation Program Multiple contractors Maintenance PUD Planning (capital and other) PUD, contractors, HCP HC

  8. Hatchery Program Issues Hatchery Operations & Maintenance Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation Program External influences • Contracts • Internal work loads • Facility upkeep • Facility modifications • Budget process • Int./ext. communication • Contracts • Budget process • Incorp. other research • QA/QC • Data storage • Analysis • Int./ext. communication • Hatchery reform • Emerging science • Paradigms • Disease management • Int./ext. communication

  9. Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation Program HCP Hatchery Committee Hatchery Operations & Maintenance External influences

  10. Conclusion: • The previous venue for direction and guidance was broke. • The HCP fixed it! • Our hatchery program is complex and in some degrees convoluted. • Our ability to navigate through the jungle of issues is made easier with the structure of the HCP.

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