WorkGroup Meeting 18 May 2017
✓ Commit: WSCC Technical Panel review July 18 ✓ Review: Workplan Review • Section 6: Outreach; Individual Stewardship Plan • Appendix H: Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt • Appendix L: Budget 18 May 2017 Objectives
✓ Agenda ✓ Individual Stewardship Plan (email) ✓ Workplan (posted) ✓ Benchmarks/Monitoring (email) ✓ Prioritized Activities (email) ✓ Related … Plans and Data ✓ Critical Areas and Functions ✓ FAQ ✓ Regulatory Backstop ✓ Incentive Programs ✓ Google Earth “How To…” Handouts
Workgroup Postings: meeting recordings, presentations, notes …
Agenda: 18 May 2017 Time Topic Action Leader Agenda review/approval :01 Approve Kelly Calendar Check: Propose & • : 15 Kelly WSCC formal review Commit • Overall work calendar Workplan Draft Review: • Section 5 Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt • :60 Section 6 Individual Stewardship Plan Feedback All Incentive Priorities :05 Next steps Inform Kelly Adjourn
Month Content Action Launch June Inform & Critical Areas & Ag: Mapping July Wrokgroup Timeline Align Critical Area Functions Aug Work Plan Scope & Goals Sept Synthesize & Oct-Nov Best Practices & Objectives Recommend Monitoring and Reporting Dec Stewardship Template Jan’17 1 st Draft Feb-Mar Refine & Scribe 2 nd Draft Apr Final Draft May Next Steps? June July
• PacCo “opts in” in 2012 • Timeline for Workplan completion begins Dec 2015 • Deadline for completion/approval of Workplan is 2018
• Pacific County WorkGroup assembled and actively engaged…
When we submit the Workplan to the WSCC “Technical Panel” … • 45 day clock begins (for Tech Panel review) • Tech Panel meets to “informally review” the submitted plans • Tech Panel meets “formally” to vote for approval/denial • Tech Panel: two plans per month capacity
• Approved ? PacCo begins implementation • Rejected ? Goes to WSCC “Statewide Advisory Committee” reviews
Month Content Action Launch June Inform & Critical Areas & Ag: Mapping July Wrokgroup Timeline Align Critical Area Functions Aug Work Plan Scope & Goals Sept Synthesize & Oct-Nov Best Practices & Objectives Recommend Monitoring and Reporting Dec Stewardship Template Jan’17 1 st Draft Feb-Mar Refine & Scribe 2 nd Draft Apr Proposed: • Jun 30: Submission to WSCC Final Draft May • ~Jul 11-13: Informal Formal Review June • Jul 18: Formal Review July
PacCo WorkGroup “Third Thursday” Proposed: Submit Workplan to WSCC TBD: “ Informal Formal Review” Scheduled: Formal Review
Thu 5/18/2017 1:36 PM Hi Kelly – just wanted to send you this reminder as Pacific County gets ready to submit their VSP work plan to the Commission and Technical Panel - the action the work group should take is to vote to send/submit the work plan to the Commission and VSP Technical Panel, rather than vote to approve the work plan (for submittal to the Commission). ---------------------- Bill Eller Washington State Conservation Commission Protocol: we vote to “ submit …” (WSCC technically “ approves ”)
Agenda: 18 May 2017 Time Topic Action Leader Agenda review/approval :01 Approve Kelly Calendar Check: Propose & • : 15 Kelly WSCC formal review Commit • Overall work calendar Workplan Draft Review: • Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt Section 5 • :60 Feedback All Section 6 Individual Stewardship Plan Incentive Priorities :05 Next steps Inform Kelly Adjourn
VSP WORK PLAN PUBLIC COMMENT: The public is invited to comment on any VSP work plan submitted to the VSP Technical Panel within 14 days of submittal. The public can use a public comment form to capture any comments made. The Technical Panel will be provided with any comments received at the end of that period. The form is available on the Commission’s VSP web page http://scc.wa.gov/vsp/
To be performed every two years (biennial), by Dec 31 Then, included in biennium reports, by Aug 29 “Implementation” what we’re “doing…” • Trends in adoption of stewardship activities • Collected via Individual Stewardship Plans (ISP) “Effectiveness” validate the implementation • Actual effects on critical areas functions • Combines existing monitoring with add’l PCD collection “Indicators” broad-area tracking data • Information valuable for adaptive management 5.xx Monitoring
Priority Issue (Benchmark Baseline ID) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural Fecal coliform contributions to fecal coliform bacteria and (WQl-1) nutrient loading ENHANCE: Reduce … Baseline to be PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural established via contributions to known surface water and Pesticides groundwater quality impairments by pesticides Conservation District (WQl-2) and herbicides monitoring conducted ENHANCE: Reduce … during first five years (2017-2022) PROTECT: Ensure no increase agricultural Sediment / contributions to the transport of fine sediment turbidity in runoff (WQl-3) ENHANCE: Reduce … Table 5-2 (page 59-60)
Party Adaptive Performance Adaptive Monitoring Method 3, 4 Collecting Management Indicators 2 Management Action Data Threshold 4, 5 E-1. Fecal coliform VSP-sponsored bacteria in surface monitoring: annual Pacific Significant 1. Repeat testing to waters from focal watershed water Conservation increase in confirm result agricultural sources quality sampling for District, with bacteria levels (focus: livestock) fecal coliform with technical relative to 2. Work with existing speciation assistance baseline and potential VSP E-2. Nutrients in Collection and testing from WSU for participants to surface waters from of water samples at SOP identify corrective agricultural sources outflows of Tarlett development actions to existing (focus: cranberries, Slough, Grayland ditch, stewardship livestock) and Willapa River for practices and/or nitrates and implement phosphates, timed to additional or align with fertilizer different application (spring and stewardship fall annually) practices Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt (Appendix H, page 6)
Priority Critical Area Baseline Issue (Benchmark ID) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural As described further in Section 5.2, effectiveness Fecal coliform contributions to fecal coliform bacteria monitoring results will be reported in terms of trends (WQl-1) and nutrient loading relative to benchmarks and adaptive management ENHANCE: Reduce… thresholds on a watershed basis. PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural Specific data results will be held in confidence by the contributions to known surface water Baseline established via PCD and used only to identify trends that will direct Pesticides and groundwater quality impairments by monitoring to be (WQl-2) adaptive management activities. pesticides and herbicides conducting during first five ENHANCE: Reduce… years (2017-2022) This clarification is made to ensure that VSP effectiveness monitoring is used strictly as a tool to work collaboratively with producers on a voluntary basis PROTECT: Ensure no increase through the VSP, rather than as the basis for regulatory Sediment/turbidity agricultural contributions to the measures. (WQl-3) transport of fine sediment in runoff ENHANCE: Reduce … Table 5-2
Priority Critical Area Baseline Issue (Benchmark ID) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural Fecal coliform contributions to fecal coliform bacteria (WQl-1) and nutrient loading ENHANCE: Reduce… PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural contributions to known surface water Baseline established via Pesticides and groundwater quality impairments by monitoring to be (WQl-2) pesticides and herbicides conducting during first five ENHANCE: Reduce… years (2017-2022) PROTECT: Ensure no increase Sediment/turbidity agricultural contributions to the (WQl-3) transport of fine sediment in runoff ENHANCE: Reduce … Table 5-2
Agenda: 18 May 2017 Time Topic Action Leader Agenda review/approval :01 Approve Kelly Calendar Check: Propose & • : 15 Kelly WSCC formal review Commit • Overall work calendar Workplan Draft Review: • Section 5 Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt • Individual Stewardship Plan :60 Section 6 Feedback All Incentive priorities :05 Next steps Inform Kelly Adjourn
Individual Stewardship Plan (ISP)
Completed ISPs are kept and maintained by the PCD. VSP success depends on open participation by producers. This open participation hinges on the assurance that confidential business information will not be disclosed. According to guidance from the Washington State Conservation Commission, statutory provisions on the confidentiality and disclosure of a farm plan also apply to ISPs collected by the PCD. Importantly, information contained in individual ISPs will be maintained by the PCD as confidential information. ISP results will be summarized at the watershed or sub- watershed scale such that no personally identifying information is available. Confidentiality… Ron Schulz is developing legal language to protect ISP information pages 65-66 from release under public records requests; this will be included once available.
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