GENERAL COMMENT:
This contract is for the US Army Corps of Engineer's (COE) staff to provide specific data and information and review of engineering documents related to the water supply for CJHP to Tetra Tech KCM, the design engineer contracted by Bonneville Power Administration and the Colville Confederated Tribes. COE is also being requested to participate on an advisory steering and design committee.

REPORTING:  This is mostly a coordination and review contract resulting in "Basis of Design" updates and technical memo's.  Quarterly reports will be adequate and no additional annual report will be required.

Note:  Environmental compliance is being done under a different contract as part of the overall project and therefore will not be done as part of this contract.

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this Statement of Work is to continue the implementation of the 3-Step Planning Process of the Northwest Power & Conservation Council (NPCC) for a Chinook salmon hatchery to supplement populations in the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers per Hatchery and Genetic Management Plans developed by the Colville Confederated Tribes and fishery co-managers.

PROJECT GOAL:
The goal of this project is to develop products and planning documents to be approved through the NPCC Step process.  The specific goal for this contract will be to complete requirements as described by the NPCC to complete Step 2 (due to schedule and place holder amounts it is not likely that all Step 2 requirements will be completed in FY 2006). The goal of this contract is to support all NEPA and other needed regulatory requirements and produce detailed designs of artificial propagation facilities necessary to implement comprehensive plans for management of Chinook salmon in the Okanogan River and the Columbia River above Wells Dam.

BACKGROUND:
For specific background information on this project please refer
to the Step 1 Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery Program Master plan submitted to BPA and the NPCC in May of 2004.

LOCATION OF PROJECT:
The project is located in the Okanogan Sub-basin in the U.S. and Canada, and the mainstem Columbia River upstream from Wells Dam, all in the Columbia Cascade Province.  Project work will be conducted by the Colville Confederated Tribes, fishery co-managers, and consultants in the Province and in private and public offices throughout the region.