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• PRRIP — ED OFFICE DRAFT 6 03/14/2008 <br />• <br />Chad Smith will incorporate the suggested changes and submit the revised version to the <br />ISAC Selection Panel for final changes before presenting the Scope of Work to the <br />Governance Committee for approval. <br />The TAC recommended Felipe Chavez to represent both the TAC and the Adaptive <br />Management Working Group on the Peer Review Working Group. <br />Program RFPs <br />Chad Smith asked for TAC approval of the tern and plover foraging habits study RFP. Greg <br />Wingfield asked about the scope of the study. Jim Jenniges drafted the original version of the <br />RFP and said the idea was to focus on foraging habits but that since the study would likely <br />involve putting radios on birds or other mark- recapture methods that the researchers should try <br />and gather as much data as possible from marked birds. Mike Fritz said this seemed to expand <br />the scope of the study and could result in different proposals for methods. He also said this will <br />require federal and state collection permits and that this should be addressed in all the proposals <br />since it may require that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the Nebraska Game <br />and Parks Commission review all of the proposals to ensure they incorporate methods that will <br />actually be permitted. Chavez suggested that the Service's Ecological Services team in Grand <br />Island should review the proposals. Smith said that at a minimum, Martha Tacha or Bob Harms <br />from the Service should sit on the proposal selection team. The group also recommended that <br />Smith make it clear to potential contractors that they will have access to existing tern and plover <br />monitoring data. <br />Jenniges said the potential contractors would benefit from visiting the river in the summer of <br />2008 before the proposals were due to become familiar with the scale of the study. The group <br />agreed to push the due date for proposals back to September 1, and Smith will host a pre - <br />proposal meeting in the summer for potential contractors to visit locations on the central <br />Platte. The TAC approved the tern and plover foraging habits RFP. <br />The TAC approved the pallid sturgeon information review RFP. <br />There was a short group discussion about the water quality monitoring RFP. Mark Czaplewski <br />said that when Ed Peters conducted his pallid sturgeon work on the lower Platte he developed a <br />water quality monitoring protocol and also obtained monitoring equipment that is now housed <br />with either the Service or the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. He said the ED Office <br />should try to track down this information and equipment to see if it would be useful. Jenniges <br />asked which parameters would be monitored, and Jason Farnsworth discussed those parameters <br />and how they are integrated into the RFP. <br />Further action on the water quality monitoring and wet meadows RFPs was tabled until a <br />later date. <br />This document is a draft based on one person's notes of the meeting. The official meeting minutes may be different <br />if corrections are made by the Technical Advisory Committee before approval. Page 2 of 3 <br />