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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I This task is a description of the without-project condition; the baseline from which alternative plans' benefits are measured and impacts are assessed, The impetus of this task is to establish the relationship of the problems that exist in the study area with significant resources currently being affected, and to forecast the most likely scenario that will occur in the future without a federal project. Appropriate coordination, literature review, site visits, and studies will be conducted throughout the planning process to determine this information. If not already available, dominant vegetation will be sampled and a cover-type map developed for specific project reaches/areas, An assessment methodology that involves outputs in acres of stream habitat, riparian habitat, wetland habitat, and buffering upland habitat will likely be used, The method must also involve outputs in quality, The resulting assessment will likely result in acres of habitat type multiplied by a quality index ranging from poor to excellent. A team of Corps/sponsor/agency/interest group biologists will be used to develop the quality index, Also, special interviews may be necessary to determine how water quality issues are being addressed, or planned to be addressed, The existing and future water quality will be related to the existing and future expected fishery, 3.0 Step 3 - Formulate Alternative Plans The focus of this task will be to identify alternative plans that will likely help alleviate anticipated problems with respect to the significant resources of the area, Alternative Plans will be formulated in a way to maximize benefits to both economic development and ecosystem restoration accounts. The biologist will assist in the identification of ecosystem restoration measures that can be implemented at a specific geographic site to address one or more planning objectives, and then the formulation of alternatives from different mixes of the ecosystem restoration measures, Some iterative reformulation is also likely to better achieve a planning objective or stay within the limits of a constraint. The biologist will also give fish and wildlife conservation consideration in the formulation of flood damage reduction alternatives. The biologist will assist in a meeting with sponsor and interested agencies (FWS, CDOW, and EPA) during the development of alternatives. 4,0 Steps 4 thru 6 - Evaluate Effects Compare Alternative Plans. and Select Federal Plan The biologist will forecast the most likely with-project environmental conditions expected under each alternative, and then compare each with-project conditions to the without- project conditions and document the differences between the two, 14