Common use of Okanogan Basin Spring Chinook Clause in Contracts

Okanogan Basin Spring Chinook. Hatchery compensation for Okanogan Basin spring chinook will be assessed in 2007 following the development of a continuing spring chinook hatchery program and/or the establishment of a Threshold Population of naturally reproducing spring chinook in the Okanogan watershed (by an entity other than the District and occurring outside this Agreement). The Hatchery Committee shall determine whether a hatchery program and/or naturally reproducing population of spring chinook is present in the Okanogan Basin. Should the Hatchery Committee determine that such a program or population exists, then the Hatchery Committee shall determine the most appropriate means to satisfy the 7% hatchery compensation requirement for Okanogan Basin spring chinook. Programs to meet the 7% hatchery requirement for Okanogan Basin spring chinook may include but not be limited to: (1) operation and maintenance funding in the amount equivalent to 7% project passage loss or (2) replace project passage losses of hatchery spring chinook with annual releases of equivalent numbers of yearling summer chinook into the Okanogan River Basin or (3) provide funding for acclimation or provide funding for adult collection facilities in the amount equivalent to 7% juvenile passage loss at the Rocky Reach Project. The programs selected to achieve NNI for Okanogan Basin spring chinook will utilize an interim value of project survival, based upon a Juvenile Project Survival estimate of 93%, until project survival studies can be conducted on Okanogan Basin yearling chinook.

Okanogan Basin Spring Chinook. Hatchery compensation Compensation for Okanogan Basin spring chinook will be assessed in 2007 following the development of a continuing long-term spring chinook hatchery program and/or the establishment of a Threshold Population of naturally reproducing spring chinook in the Okanogan watershed (by an entity other than the District and occurring outside this Agreement). The Hatchery Committee shall determine make a determination on whether a hatchery program and/or naturally reproducing population of spring chinook is present in the Okanogan Basin. Should the Hatchery Committee determine that such a program or and/or population exists, then the Hatchery Committee shall determine the most appropriate means to satisfy the 7% hatchery compensation requirement NNI for Okanogan Basin spring chinook. Programs to meet the 7% hatchery requirement NNI for Okanogan Basin spring chinook may include but not be limited to: (; 1) operation and maintenance provide O & M funding in the amount equivalent to 73.8% project passage loss or (2) replace project passage losses of hatchery spring chinook with annual releases of equivalent numbers of yearling summer chinook into the Okanogan River Basin or (3) provide funding for acclimation or provide funding for adult collection facilities in the amount equivalent to 73.8% juvenile passage loss at the Rocky Reach Xxxxx Project. The programs selected to achieve NNI for Okanogan Basin spring chinook will utilize an interim value of project survival, survival based upon a the three-year average Juvenile Project Survival estimate of 93%, 96.2% until project survival studies can be conducted on Okanogan Basin yearling chinook.

Okanogan Basin Spring Chinook. Hatchery compensation for Okanogan Basin spring chinook will be assessed in 2007 following the development of a continuing spring chinook hatchery program and/or the establishment of a Threshold Population of naturally reproducing spring chinook in the Okanogan watershed (by an entity other than the District and occurring outside this Agreement). The Hatchery Committee shall determine whether a hatchery program and/or naturally reproducing population of spring chinook is present in the Okanogan Basin. Should the Hatchery Committee determine that such a program or population exists, then the Hatchery Committee shall determine the most appropriate means to satisfy the 7% hatchery compensation requirement for Okanogan Basin spring chinook. Programs to meet the 7% hatchery requirement for Okanogan Basin spring chinook may include but not be limited to: (1) operation and maintenance funding in the amount equivalent to 7% project passage loss or (2) replace project passage losses of hatchery spring chinook with annual releases of equivalent numbers of yearling summer chinook into the Okanogan River Basin or (3) provide funding for acclimation or provide funding for adult collection facilities in the amount equivalent to 7% juvenile passage loss at the Rocky Reach Rock Island Project. The programs selected to achieve NNI for Okanogan Basin spring chinook will utilize an interim value of project survival, based upon a Juvenile Project Survival estimate of 93%, until project survival studies can be conducted on Okanogan Basin yearling chinook.