Board Metting 01/23/2007

• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2007
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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H.R. 2720, to further the purposes of the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment
Act of 1992 by directing the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of
Reclamation, to carry out an assessment and demonstration program to control salt cedar and
Russian olive. (Signed October 11, 2006.) .
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Public Law 1 09-321
H.R. 3443, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water distribution facilities
to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. (Signed October 11,2006.)

Public Law 109-322
H.R. 5539, to reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. (Signed October
11,2006.)

FEDERAL REGISTER

Bureau of Reclamation

71 Fed. Reg. 67159. November 20.2006
Reclamation gives notice of contractual actions that have been proposed to the agency and
are new, modified, discontinued or completed since the last publication of this notice on August 2,
2006. A tabulation is provided of all proposed contractual actions in each of the five Reclamation
regions, including two proposed actions in the Upper Colorado Region.

71 Fed. Reg. 74556. December 12. 2006
In a Federal Register notice published on November 6, 2006 (71 FR 64982-64983) and
pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended,
and 40 CFR 1508.22, the Department of the Interior (DOl), acting through Reclamation, provides
notice that DOl intends to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) and conduct public .
scoping meetings for the adoption of a Long-Term Experimental Plan for the operation of Glen
Canyon Dam and other associated management activities. The current Federal Register notice,
prepared pursuant to 40 CFR 1508.22, provides information on additional public scoping meetings,
the purpose and need for the proposed action and additional background on the Long-Term
Experimental Plan.

The purpose of the Long-Term Experimental Plan is to increase understanding of the
ecosystem downstream from Glen Canyon Dam and to improve and protect important downstream
resources. The NEP A process would evaluate the implications and impacts of each of the
alternatives on all of the purposes and benefits of Glen Canyon Dam as well as on downstream
resources. The proposed plan would implement a structured, long-term program of
experimentation (including dam operations, modifications to Glen Canyon Dam intake structures
and other non-flow management actions, such as removal of non-native fish species) and
monitoring in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam. The proposed Long-Term
Experimental Plan is intended to ensure a continued, structured application of adaptive management
in such a manner as to protect, mitigate adverse impacts to and improve the values for which Grand
Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area were established, including, but
not limited to, natural and cultural resources and visitor use, consistent with applicable Federal law.

The Long-Term Experimental Plan will build on a decade of scientific experimentation and
monitoring that has taken place as part of the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program
and will build on the knowledge gained by experiments, operations and management actions taken
under the program. Accordingly, Reclamation intends to tier from earlier NEPA compliance
documents prepared as part of the Department's Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program .
efforts, see 40 CFR 1500.4(i), 1502.20, and 1508.20(b), such as the 2002 Environmental

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