1. Omnibus Workload Planning Process: Background
Agenda Item I.9
Supplemental Staff Presentation 1
September 2018
Omnibus Workload Planning Process: Background
Pacific Fisheries Management Council
Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 International Blvd.
Seattle, WA
September 11, 2018

2. Overview Background: Process Revision Council Operating Procedure 9
Omnibus
Council Action
Intro slide: Omnibus process can be nebulous event. This presentation will inform and focus audience (Council ) on topic. There is a need to refine the process, hence the agenda item

3. Background: Groundfish Management Process Revision
2005: Change from annual to biennial management
2010: Identified biennial process needed revision
Process Improvements Committee (PIC) convened
Develop optimal management activities cycle
Explore long-term solutions to groundfish management process
PIC recommendations
Streamline workload via dividing management activity process
Define what are new and routine management measures
Create a better project prioritization process
Council Operating Procedure 9 Revised November 2013.
Basic overview of how the two year process came to be. Due to issues in the development of the 2011/12 SPEX, the Council realized process improvements were needed in order to meet objectives and timelines of the management process. In order to accomplish those tasks, the Council developed an Ad Hoc committee to develop reports on science related processes, management measure development, NEPA preparation, NMFS review & management measure(s) implementation as well as defining ways to solve measures to determine if measures need an FMP or routine process. [Contrast would be between full/new rule making process or routine process; or between an FMP or a rulemaking process. This contrast leaves out new rulemakings which may or may not require and FMP amendment.]

4. Council Operating Procedure (COP) 9 Management Activity Cycle: Groundfish
Designed for January implementation of biennial harvest specifications
Divides Council groundfish management activity timeline
On-year for routine & critical new management measures
Off-year for other new management measures
Includes Omnibus process
Basic overview of how the Omnibus two year process came to be. Due to issues in the development of the 2011/12 SPEX, the Council realized process improvements were needed in order to meet objectives and timelines of the management process. In order to accomplish those tasks, the Council developed an Ad Hoc committee to develop reports on science related processes, management measure development, NEPA preparation, NMFS review & management measure(s) implementation as well as defining ways to solve measures to determine if measures need an FMP or routine process.
Routine management measures OR
Measures necessary to manage for ACLs, protected species, or habitat issues

5. Off-year work may continue into on-year
COP 9
Biennial Management Activity Cycle
“On” Year
Routine & Critical New Management Measures
“Off-year”
Work on New Management Measures
With respect to continuing into off-year, maybe say something about “or even subsequent off years” – doesn’t need to be in the slide
Off-year work may continue into on-year

6. Off-Year Management Activities
FPA Management Measures
Final Action EFPs
Omnibus Prioritization Process
Off-year Priority Projects
Pacific Whiting Management Measures Recommendations
JUNE
SEPT
NOV
MARCH
APRIL
JUNE
Off-year prioritized work completed (or continued as appropriate)
On-year Process Begins
Off-year Priorities Projects

7. Ideas for Management Measures
On or Off-Year?
Ideas for Management Measures
Has it been:
Previously analyzed?
Defined in regulation?
YES NO
It is a NEW measure
Detailed Analysis
YES
Is it necessary for:
ACL management, protected species, and/or habitat issues?
Omnibus NO
Off-Year: Measure forwarded for prioritization
It is a ROUTINE measure
On-year: Implement in SPEX process
(or inseason)
Limited Analysis

8. Omnibus Prioritization Process
Opportunity for Council:
Prioritize new groundfish issues for investigation
Adopt schedule for Council decision process
Manage workload, in the context of all groundfish related work
Slide is opportunity for us to refresh/orient Council on process. Noting what it is. Additional opportunity to note workload issues.
Process prioritizes management measures to be considered, cements workload into a schedule
New measures can receive full attention of advisory bodies
The omnibus process is designed to bring a broad context to the prioritization of off-year work on new management measures specified by COP 9. It was motivated by not only the need to set off-year priorities but also to realistically manage expectations for the work that could be accomplished within the Council process, with full NMFS and state engagement, including expectations for what NMFS might feasibly implement in the context of its multiple responsibilities.

9. Previous Omnibus Considerations
Actions In Implementation Phase
19-20 Spex
Other Past Council Actions to be Implemented
Law Suits
Ongoing EFP Work
Existing PFMC Commitment
Inseason Mgmt
Pacific Halibut CSP & Regs
EFH Review and RCAs
ESA Issues
Ecosystem Issues
(FEP & CA Current)
Harvest Policy Deliberations
Stock Assess Meth & Work
Whiting Spex & Set Asides
Completion of Past New Mgmt Measure Priorities:
Cost Recovery, EM, etc.
Sectors Needs
LE Fixed Gear
Trawl – Shore IFQ
Trawl – MS Co-op
Trawl – CP Co-op
Open Access
Recreational
Tribal
OMNIBUS
Previous lists for omnibus prioritizations have included things on which the Council had completed work and were awaiting NMFS implementation, pre-existing immediate and long-term commitments, as well as ideas for new management measures. This slide indicates the sectors affected (light blue) as well as some of the broader categories of workload considerations
Slide offers opportunity to discuss all the potential subjects that can be evaluated by Council and prioritized. Gets to idea that Omnibus contains multiple and competing issues, thus the need to prioritize

10. Biennial Management Activity Cycle
COP 9
Biennial Management Activity Cycle
Omnibus
“On” Year
“Off-year”

11. Council Action:
Discuss omnibus planning process in the context of existing workload commitments, and provide guidance on next steps.
Potential questions to consider
Is omnibus prioritization working?
Are refinements needed?
What are the workload concerns?
How does Council want to proceed for the coming cycle?
Timelines adhered to, allowing Jan. 1 implementation of new management measures
Process prioritizes management measures to be considered, cements workload into a schedule
New and routine management measures can receive full attention of advisory bodies
Flexible process allows for additional management measures to be considered based on new information
Allows for interdisciplinary development of management measures

12. QUESTIONS?
Timelines adhered to, allowing Jan. 1 implementation of new management measures
Process prioritizes management measures to be considered, cements workload into a schedule
New and routine management measures can receive full attention of advisory bodies
Flexible process allows for additional management measures to be considered based on new information
Allows for interdisciplinary development of management measures

13. On-year Management Activities
Modeling methods, stock assessments, OFLs… adopted
Council provides guidance on SPEX development measures
Harvest Specifications
Management measures can be added for analysis
JUNE
SEPT
NOV
MARCH
APRIL
JUNE
Rebuilding analyses, stock assessments, preliminary ACLs, etc. adopted
2-year allocations adopted
Final range of management measures for SPEX analysis adopted
Complete Off-year or continue as approipriate
On-year Process Begins
Management Measures
Omnibus Prioritization Process