Minimum Flow

[Phil Lilley]

Baxter Bulletin, Mtn. Home Ark.

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../511250314/1002

H.R.2419

Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)

SEC. 132. WHITE RIVER BASIN, ARKANSAS- (a) MINIMUM FLOWS-(1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary is authorized and directed to implement alternatives BS-3 and NF-7, as described in the White River Minimum Flows Reallocation Study Report, Arkansas and Missouri, dated July 2004.

(2) COST SHARING AND ALLOCATION- Reallocation of storage and planning, design and construction of White River Minimum Flows project facilities shall be considered fish and wildlife enhancement that provides national benefits and shall be a Federal expense in accordance with section 906(e) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C.

2283(e)). The non-Federal interests shall provide relocations or modifications to public and private lakeside facilities at Bull Shoals Lake and Norfork Lake to allow reasonable continued use of the facilities with the storage reallocation as determined by the Secretary in consultation with the non-Federal interests. Operations and maintenance costs of the White River Minimum Flows project facilities shall be 100 percent Federal. All Federal costs for the White River

Minimum Flows project shall be considered non-reimbursable.

(3) IMPACTS ON NON-FEDERAL PROJECT- The Administrator of Southwestern Power Administration, in consultation with the project licensee and the relevant state public utility commissions, shall determine any impacts on electric energy and capacity generated at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project No. 2221 caused by the storage reallocation at Bull Shoals Lake, based on data and recommendations provided by the relevant state public utility commissions. The licensee of Project No. 2221 shall

be fully compensated by the Corps of Engineers for those impacts on the basis of the present value of the estimated future lifetime replacement costs of the electrical energy and capacity at the time of implementation of the White River Minimum Flows project. Such costs shall be included in the costs of implementing the White River Minimum Flows project and allocated in accordance with subsection (a)(2) above.

(4) OFFSET- In carrying out this subsection, losses to the Federal hydropower purpose of the Bull Shoals and Norfork Projects shall be offset by a reduction in the costs allocated to the Federal hydropower purpose. Such reduction shall be determined by the Administrator of the Southwestern Power Administration on the basis of the present value of the estimated future lifetime replacement cost of the electrical energy and capacity at the time of implementation of the White River Minimum Flows project. (B ) FISH HATCHERY- In constructing, operating, and maintaining the fish hatchery at Beaver Lake, Arkansas, authorized by section 105 of the

Water Resources Development Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2921), losses to the Federal hydropower purpose of the Beaver Lake Project shall be offset by a reduction in the costs allocated to the Federal hydropower purpose. Such reduction shall be determined by the Administrator of the Southwestern Power Administration based on the present value of the estimated future lifetime replacement cost of the electrical energy and

capacity at the time operation of the hatchery begins.

[Phil Lilley]

I have a friend who has a friend (and I know this friend) who told me today that a new minimum flow will be activated as early as August of '06, unless someone throws a monkey wrench in the trubines. This friend is an adviser to the Corp and has been involved in the mf issue from the beginning.

I've been telling people I didn't think mf had been funded- but I guess I was wrong.

Congrats!! MDC will be watching to see if it works I'm sure.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I have a friend who has a friend (and I know this friend)

Care to divuldge who this secret online informant is ??

I am dying to see it happen that soon on the White!

best fishes - Brian

[Phil Lilley]

No- I know you wouldn't know him... and he's not online that I know of. If his name is mentioned, he may get in trouble for naming dates... who knows. But I was surprised a rep from the power company was so definate about it happening. He's a great trout fisher too- excellent jig fisherman. I've fished in a tournament with him years ago.

[Phil Lilley]

Picked this off the Flyfishing Arkansas Board information on minimum flow for Bull Shoals/White River.

If you understand it- it's interesting.

SIMULATION OF HYDRODYNAMICS, TEMPERATURE, AND DISSOLVED OXYGEN IN BULL SHOALS LAKE, ARKANSAS, 1994-1995