River Management Team definition
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The Planning Group of the River Management Team will determine the planned operations of the existing upper and lower outlets from New Bullards Bar Dam into the New Colgate Penstock, and of any new temperature adjustment device that is constructed at the Narrows II Powerhouse.
In the spirit of collaboration, as non-parties to this Agreement but participants in the River Management Team, NOAA Fisheries and USFWS agree to disclose and coordinate the development and scoping of any studies regarding or related to fish or fish habitat in the Lower Yuba River with the RMT’s Planning Group, and to provide the results of these studies (including all raw data) to all of the Parties to this Agreement.
The Parties and members of the River Management Team will cooperate in conducting studies, performing monitoring, and conducting all other activities within their control and statutory or regulatory authorities related to implementation of this Agreement and River Management Team tasks.
The Operations Group of the River Management Team will provide specific guidance to YCWA for YCWA’s implementation of the Planning Group’s final decisions regarding the operations of the existing upper and lower outlets from New Bullards Bar Dam into the New Colgate Penstock and any new temperature adjustment device that is constructed at the Narrows II Powerhouse.
If YCWA must make any Significant Change in the assumed operations parameters described in Exhibit 10 because of a Force Majeure Event or a Regulatory Change Event, then the River Management Team will work to try to develop an alternative consensus flow schedule.
YCWA will advise the River Management Team regarding any planned maintenance outages of the Narrows I and II Powerhouses and consider any RMT comments regarding these planned outages.
The River Management Team (through a decision by its Planning Group) may decide to temporarily alter the applicable instream flow requirements in Schedules 1 through 6 at any time during the term of this Agreement, so long as the agreed-to instream flows comply with the applicable requirements of YCWA’s FERC license and YCWA’s water-right permits.
However, Parties to this Agreement and other River Management Team members acknowledge that the Operations Group has discretion to determine how to recommend implementation of Planning Group directions.
If the applicable flow schedule is Schedule 4 or Schedule 5, and if the River Management Team elects to allocate some or all of the 10 percent of the Groundwater Substitution Program total transfer volume described in the immediately preceding paragraph, then that water will be included in the updated flow schedule and will be provided by YCWA.
However, this provision does not apply to Operations Group disputes (see section 6.7) and River Management Team disputes solely regarding study protocol or data collection (see section 6.8), as discussed below.