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)
T Yount
Mention Douglas County PUD HCP

5. HCP Components 100 % No Net Impact 91 % 2 % 7 % Tributary Habitat
T Yount
Focus discussion on passage survival and hatchery
Will provide information regarding the Habitat component at a later date
2 %
91 %
7 %
Tributary Habitat
Passage Survival
Hatchery

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 Monitoring and Evaluation Program
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.