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a I. Assignments to Technical Committee After council discussion of the business items resulting from the technical report presented at this meeting, the council assigned the technical committee: 1. Present to the council, if possible prior to October, 1988, recommendations for control on stocks of and stocking infected fish in disease free waters and guidelines to remove incentives to perform such acts by the commercial aquaculture industry. The draft guidelines should be submitted to the new council chairman. 2. The technical committee provide the council for their next annual meeting, July 1989, recommendations with a white paper providing the ramifications for indemnification of fish stocks found in violation of state fish disease standards and/or council fish disease control policy. Recommendations should consider whether to handle this through insurance or a monetary fund or whatever. Further to address headon what a wildlife agency should do in getting the problem on fish diseases corrected where we have to either condemn . or somehow take action against another state hatchery or commercial fish grower. The committee should also look at things that the aquaculture industry can do for itself; i.e., insurance and other things to keep themselves out of trouble. Thereafter, the council will look at indemnification as an option with perhaps other options and recommendations of how the state should treat this issue. 3. During discussion, it was suggested that the emphasis of the assign- ment be one of recognizing that there may be times and places where hatchery stocks could be ordered to be sterilized or other drastic action taken and the council should get to the point where they're suggesting to the industry that it be aware of that and take such actions as it may think necessary for itself to provide self or commercial insurance or shared stock within an aquaculture associa- tion to the point, perhaps, where a state could provide some surplus stocks. 4. See the assignment given technical committee under "Triploid Grass Carp" item J. 5. Mr. Geer reviewed the conversations with Mr. Crandall, Mr. Hallenbeck and Ron Powell concerning discussions this afternoon with mitigation activities throughout the Basin. It is apparent we still have problems with Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management in the mitigation arena. The council then assigned the technical committee consider establishing the wildlife habitat subcommittee a standing committee and providing for them a specific charge to provide a resolution with supporting strong justification, historical and specific basis addressing ways to handle backlog, unresolved and undone mitigation in the Lower Basin, and whereknown in the Upper Basin, such as establishing a Corps of Engineers superfund for conditions in the issuance of a permit or other such recommendations to pay for and assign responsibilities for these mitigation problems. It was the thinking of the council after receipt of this that they promote action through the western 17