Chehalis Basin Partnership Meeting Notice and Agenda


DATE: Friday February 23, 2001
TIME: 9:00 to 11:30 AM
LOCATION: Bingo Room, Chehalis Tribe Lucky Eagle Casino
General Partnership Business 9:00 a.m.
Welcome, introduce members and new visitors ( 5) Chair
Identify special issues of concern and adjust agenda ( 5) Members/Chair
Committee Reports
Citizen's Advisory Committee – Public Outreach Plan (15) Committee Chair
By-laws Review/Update Committee ( 5) Lee Hansmann
Other Business
Temperature TMDL highlights (20) Kahle Jennings
State Water Quality Funding Local Prioritization (10) Kahle Jennings

ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AT THIS MEETING:
Appoint committee to set up local review process for water quality funding applications
Reminder of public comment period on the Upper Chehalis River Temperature TMDL
Special Project Status Reports, Budget Updates and Committee Reports 10:00 a.m.
Watershed Planning Project (RCW 90.82) (10) Lead Agency
Salmon Recovery Project (RCW 77.85) (10) Lead Entity
Limiting Factors Analysis update
Flood Control Projects (10)
Centralia Flood Damage Reduction Project (sponsored by Lewis County)
Chehalis Basin Study (sponsored by Grays Harbor County)
Special Presentation 10:30 a.m.
Salmon Recovery Funding Board (45) William Ruckelshaus
Open Comment 11:15 a.m.
(15) Audience
Chair Adjourns Meeting 11:30 a.m.

ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AT THIS MEETING:
None known at the time the agenda was prepared

BACKGROUND ON SPECIAL PRESENTATION


The 1999, the Washington State Legislature created and authorized the Salmon Recovery Funding (SRF) Board. The Mission of the SRF Board is to support salmon recovery by funding habitat protection and restoration projects, and related programs and activities that produce sustainable and measurable benefit for the fish and their habitat.

Mr. William D. Ruckelshaus of Seattle serves as the Chair of the SRF Board. Mr. Ruckelshaus is a principal in the Madrona Investment Group, L.L.C. (MIG), a Seattle based investment company. In 1999, Governor Gary Locke appointed him to serve a four-year term as the chairman of the Salmon Recovery Funding Board.

A native of Indiana, Ruckelshaus obtained an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard University. He practiced law for several years, and also served in the Indiana House of Representatives, where he was Majority Leader (1967-69). He received presidential appointments as first and fifth Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (1970 and 1985), Acting Director Federal Bureau of Investigation and as Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice (1973). After 1974, Ruckelshaus worked with the Weyerhaeuser Company as Senior Vice President. He was Chairman/CEO of Browning-Ferris Industries from 1988 to 1995 and Chairman from 1995 to 1999. Currently, Mr. Ruckelshaus serves as a director of several corporations, including Cummins Engine Company, Pharmacia Corporation, Solutia, Inc., Coinstar, Inc., Nordstrom, Inc., and Weyerhaeuser Company. In July 1997, President Clinton appointed him as the U.S. envoy for the Pacific Salmon Treaty negotiations. He chairs the U. of Wyoming's Institute for Environment & Natural Resources, the World Resources Institute, and serves on the boards of numerous other nonprofit organizations. Mr. Ruckelshaus resides in Seattle, Washington.



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