This contract will replace Cooperative Agreement 97182 to cover YN Fisheries UCHRP staff costs, project overhead costs, and on-call service subcontract costs over the June 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027 performance period.  In addition, all BPA funded property inventory for the UCHRP will be reported under this contract.  This Contract includes the wages and overhead expenses of Yakama Nation staff working on accounting, budgeting, reporting, restoration project management, and subcontract management during the 1 year performance period.

The 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, increasing the efficiency to produce individual restoration projects that yield habitat mitigation credits for the Federal Columbia River Power System. 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 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.

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, 2026 to May 31, 2027.  Detailed work elements for implementation of specific restoration actions that are directly applicable to mitigation credits under the FCRPS BiOP are provided in separate contracts known as "Habitat Restoration Contracts".

Work Element actions in 2026 Habitat Restoration Contracts include:

DESIGN PROJECTS (2026 ENGINEERING AND DESIGN PROJECTS)

Methow Subbasin:
Methow River-Fawn Creek Assessment Unit - Methow Basin EWD Instream Flow Project, Early Winters Creek USFS Project, Big Valley Project
Methow River-Thompson Creek Assessment Unit - W2 Foghorn Reach, 1890s Outlet, and Two Channels Project
Wolf Creek Assessment Unit – Wolf Creek USFS Project
Chewuch River-Doe Creek Assessment Unit- Chewuch River Right Project
Eight Mile Creek Assessment Unit - Eight Mile Barrier Project

Wenatchee Subbasin:
Lower Nason Creek Assessment Unit - Nason Creek N1 DOT Project, Upper Nason Phase 3, Nason RM 9, and Nason Creek Gill Creek/Knifeshop
Lower Chiwawa River Assessment Unit - Lower Chiwawa Big Meadow
Lower White River Assessment Unit - White River CDLT
Wenatchee River-Beaver Creek Assessment Unit - Upper Wenatchee 50 Mile Project
Chiwaukum Creek Assessment Unit - Chiwaukum Creek DOT Project
Middle Icicle Creek Assessment Unit - Icicle Creek USFS Project

Entiat Subbasin:
Entiat River-Lake Creek Assessment Unit – Entiat  Stillwaters Project
Entiat River-Preston Creek - Assessment Unit - Entiat 3D CDLT
Mad River Assessment Unit - Mad River Outlet, MRO Instream Flow Project

RESTORATION ACTIONS (2026 CONSTRUCTION ACTIONS)

Methow Subbasin:
Methow River-Thompson Creek Assessment Unit - W2 Foghorn Reach Phase 1  

Entiat Subbasin:
Nothing Planned in 2026

Wenatchee Subbasin:
Lower Chiwawa River Assessment Unit - Lower Chiwawa USFS Phase 2