Conservation Resource Advisory Committee

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Conservation Resource Advisory Committee

• Draft Work Plan
• And
• Tentative Schedule

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Major Work Plan Elements

• Conservation Resource Assessment
• Model Conservation Standards and Surcharge Policy
• Value to the Region of Stabilized Conservation
  Investments
• Mechanisms for Stabilizing Conservation
  Investments
• Bonnevilles Future Role in Conservation
  Acquisitions
• Other Issues Identified by the Committee

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Conservation Resource Assessment

• Primary Tasks
• Estimate cost and savings/unit
• Estimate applicable units
• Estimate realizable potential
• Tentative Schedule
• Residential Sector gt August
• Irrigated Agriculture gt September
• Industrial gt October
• Commercial gt November

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Model Conservation Standards (MCS) and Surcharge
Policy

• Primary Tasks
• Estimate cost-effectiveness and economic
  feasibility of residential and commercial
  efficiency measures beyond current state codes
  and federal standards
• Review need for surcharge to encourage adoption
  of MCS
• Tentative Schedule
• Residential gt September
• Commercial gt November

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Value to the Region of Stabilized Conservation
Investments

• Primary Tasks
• Develop analytical framework and assumptions
• Build and test model
• Conduct analysis
• Tentative Schedule
• Complete model development gt May
• Conduct analysis gt Late May/Early June
• Committee Review gt mid - June

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Mechanisms for Stabilizing Conservation
Investments

• Primary Tasks
• Estimate benefits of stabilized investments
• Develop options for providing stable investments
• Analyze practical and political feasibility of
  options
• Tentative Schedule
• Estimate Benefits gt July
• Develop and analyze options gt October/November

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Bonnevilles Future Role in Conservation
Acquisitions

• Primary Tasks
• Establish policy criteria/objectives
• Review proposals for future allocations of
  federal power vis-à-vis policy criteria/objectives
  
• Develop recommendation
• Tentative Schedule
• Establish objectives gt September
• Review proposals gt October/November
• Develop recommendation gt December/January

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Other Issues?