9529

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9529
• Author: Smith, G.
• Title: Sediment Peer Review Panel Workshop.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

John Hamill
Director,
Recovery Program

RECOVERY PRffiRAM FOR
THE ENDANGERED HSHES
OF THE UPPER COIORAID

Ralph Morgenweck
Chairman,
Implementation Committee

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . P.O. Box 25486 · Denver Federal Center . Denver, CO 80225 . [phone] . Fax [phone]

COIKSINFJUT -CRIFY-97
WAC
Mail Stop 65115

RECEIVED FES 1 2 1997

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Memorandum

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Yampa River Basin Sediment Peer Review Panel

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FROM:

George Smith, Chainnan,Water Acquisition Committee

SUBJECT: Sediment Peer Review Panel Workshop

Panel Members:

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Thank you for agreeing to be a member of the Yampa River Basin Sediment Peer Review Panel. I
have attached a copy of the original workshop proposal that outlines the goals and objectives of the
panel. Please note that we will be conducting only one workshop (i.e, Tasks 3 and 4, Section VII of
the proposal will be combined into a single workshop). The workshop is scheduled for February 21,
1997, at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Offices in Lakewood at 134 Union Boulevard, room 200,
just west of the Denver Federal Center. The meeting is planned to run from 9:30 a.m. to 3 :30 p.m.
with an hour for lunch. I have asked Bob Mussetter, Mussetter Engineering, Inc. (MEI), to be the
Workshop Coordinator. ME! is preparing a paper that summarizes the existing sediment data that
has been published for the Yampa, Little Snake and Green Rivers. We will provide, for your review,
a draft of at least the summary tables and figures from the paper prior to the workshop.

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Our goals for the workshop will be to develop recommendations on the types of data that should be
collected, how and where the data should be collected, and the level of effort that will be required.
Even though there are many important issues related to the endangered species recovery program in
this part of the basin,. because of the short time that is available for the workshop, it will be critical
that we maintain our focus on these specific goals. BaSed on the results from the . workshop, ME! will
prepare a recommendations report that can be incorporated into anFY-98 Scope of Work for the
sediment monitoring program.

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