Platte River Recovery Implementation Program: Water Plan

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review/guidance on the updated Program AOP from the Water and Technical Advisory Committees. The Governance Committee or its individual members may recommend changes to the Program AOP at any time. j. The EA Manager will request the release of Program water in accordance with the Program AOP and the contracts and agreements with the Program Sponsors. However, it is understood that the EA Manager will need to react and adapt to the actual hydrologic events that may impact the planned deliveries to the habitat. To the extent possible, the EA Manager will keep the Executive Director informed of the day-to-day operations for the Program water. k. At the end of each water year, the EA Manager will prepare a report comparing the actual Program water operations during the water year with the operations outlined in the Program AOP, identifying and explaining any differences in actual operations from the operations proposed in the previous year's Program AOP, and providing other information requested by the Governance Committee. The year-end report will also describe whether the EA releases met the goals and purposes for which the water was used. This year-end report and any Governance Committee comments on that report will be used by the EA Manager as input to the subsequent year's Program AOP. 3. Program Water Operations for Enhancing Peak, or Pulse, or Other Flows by Reregulating Water in the CNPPID and/or NPPD Systems and Intentionally Bypassing Program EA Water a. Consistent with Program section II.E.I .b, the EA Manager may request CNPPID and/or the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) to reregulate flows in their respective systems, downstream of Lake McConaughy, and in conjunction with such reregulation may also request the Districts intentionally to bypass EA water. EA Bypass Flows are created when CNPPID or NPPD (Districts), at the request of the EA Manager, waives the discretion provided by their licenses and the Environmental Account Document (Attachment 5, Section 5) to divert Environmental Account (EA) water that could have been routed through their systems, and instead routes the EA water via the North Platte and/or Platte River. The reregulation of water in District facilities with or without intentional EA bypass will only be requested to enhance peak, pulse or other short-duration high flows. The EA Manager will consider the following factors when determining whether reregulation with or without intentional EA bypass is necessary, and in developing the annual plan for such operations: (1) Feasibility/likelihood of generating satisfactory flows without reregulation and intentional EA bypass. To the extent that a short-duration high flow or other flows of the desired magnitude and duration can be achieved without reregulation and intentional bypass, or with reregulation but without making an intentional EA bypass, reregulation and bypass may not be needed or requested. This is most likely to occur under wetter-than-normal basin conditions when CNPPID is already making full or nearly-full diversions at the CNPPID Supply Canal headgate. August 8, 2006 Water Management Process