This contract will replace Contract 56662 REL 191 to cover YN Fisheries UCHRP staff costs and on-call service subcontract costs over a 2 year time frame.  In addition, all property for the UCHRP will be reported under this contract.  This Contract includes all wages and overhead expenses of Yakama Nation staff working on accounting, budgeting, reporting, restoration project management, and subcontract management during the 2 year time frame.  The initial 2 year contract will only include cost obligations from June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021.  Cost obligations from June 1, 2021 to March 30, 2022 will be added to this Contract through a CCR in the 2nd quarter of FY21.

The program-wide on-call subcontract work elements provided in this Contract allow the Yakama Nation to more efficiently conduct subcontracting for redundant yet critical site assessment, design, and post construction maintenance activities across our work region, dramatically increasing the efficiency with which the Yakama Nation can produce actual individual restoration projects that yield habitat mitigation credits under the FCRPS BiOP.  Topographic surveys, large wood haul, groundwater testing, native plant revegetation planning, and providing maintenance of vegetation and habitat structures on completed project sites are all restoration related activities that must be completed on all or most restoration project sites, yet these project elements are not the core restoration project elements that actually produce mitigation credits under the FCRPS BiOP.  Given the large number of projects Yakama Nation Fisheries is developing simultaneously, if the program were to break apart these redundant project support activities as separate work elements for each restoration project site, the Yakama Nation Accord contracts would be infinitely more complex and overloaded with redundant WEs and a confusion of related milestones and milestone dates, making it very hard to produce and review CRs and CCRs.  Also, this would likely require the Yakama Nation to request more CCRs more often as these critical yet redundant work elements become needed on individual projects at differing times in the project development and completion process.  Additionally, the Tribal contracting process would be overrun and dramatically slowed down by a need to constantly produce and modify subcontracts for redundant services with the same contractors on different work sites.  These effects would greatly impede the Yakama Nation's ability to produce the quantity of habitat restoration projects within the time frame of the Accords.

This "Staff and Subs" Contract will provide all needed support services for the YN Fisheries UCHRP to continue operations in the Upper Columbia Basin from June 1, 2020 to March 30, 2022.  Detailed work elements for implementation of specific restoration actions that are directly applicable to mitigation credits under the FCRPS BiOP are provided in separate Accord Contracts known as "Habitat Restoration Contracts".

CCR 45578 Update - Cost obligations from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022 are being added to this Contract through CCR 45578.  This CCR includes extension of the contract end date to May 31, 2022, inclusion of 2nd year monies for existing staff payroll and subcontractors to continue performance of needed support for on-going restoration projects being implemented under REL 226.