Section 7 ESA Consultation

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Section 7 ESA Consultation
Shawna Bautista
Diana Perez Rose
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Consultation with Regulatory Agencies

• R6 EIS consultation can facilitate forest
  consultation
• Ecotype analysis for local conditions
• No chronic risk to fish

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Consultation with Regulatory Agencies

• Risk Assessments and BAs provide
• relative risk
• ecological route of risk
• where uncertainty lies
• Knowledge of previous interagency agreements

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Consultation with Regulatory Agencies

• May require unique timeframes for draft BAs and
  BOs to facilitate NEPA timelines.
• Highly recommend establishing consultation
  agreement
• Get draft BO before submitting final BA
• Draft BA Comments Draft BO Comments
  Final BA Final BO

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Monitoring Framework

• Regional Approach
• Implementation / Compliance via database tool
• Part of Forest Plan monitoring
• All projects requiring consultation will report
  compliance with Standards 16-20

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Monitoring Framework

• Effectiveness of treatments via NRIS/FACTS

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Monitoring Framework

• Effectiveness of protection measures (i.e. new
  standards, local PDCs)
• Representative sample of high risk projects
  only
• All aerial application
• Heavy equipment or broadcast treatments in
  riparian areas or areas with listed species

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Monitoring Framework

• Additional effectiveness monitoring will require
  Level 2 or other interagency agreement.
• Monitoring protocol and reporting schedule by
  2007

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