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WorkGroup Meeting 18 May 2017

18 May 2017

Objectives

✓ Commit: WSCC Technical Panel review July 18 ✓ Review:

Workplan Review

• Section 6: Outreach; Individual Stewardship Plan
• Appendix H: Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt
• Appendix L: Budget

Handouts

✓ 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…”

Workgroup Postings:

meeting recordings, presentations, notes …

Time Topic Action Leader

:01

Agenda review/approval

Approve Kelly

:15 Calendar Check:

• WSCC formal review
• Overall work calendar

Propose & Commit Kelly

:60 Workplan Draft Review:

• Section 5

Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt

• Section 6

Individual Stewardship Plan Incentive Priorities Feedback All

:05 Next steps

Inform Kelly

Adjourn

Agenda: 18 May 2017

Wrokgroup Timeline

Month Content Action June Launch July Critical Areas & Ag: Mapping Aug Critical Area Functions Sept Work Plan Scope & Goals Oct-Nov Best Practices & Objectives Dec Monitoring and Reporting Jan’17 Stewardship Template Feb-Mar 1st Draft Apr 2nd Draft May Final Draft June July

Inform & Align Synthesize & Recommend Refine & Scribe

Next Steps?

• 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

Wrokgroup Timeline

Month Content Action June Launch July Critical Areas & Ag: Mapping Aug Critical Area Functions Sept Work Plan Scope & Goals Oct-Nov Best Practices & Objectives Dec Monitoring and Reporting Jan’17 Stewardship Template Feb-Mar 1st Draft Apr 2nd Draft May Final Draft June July

Inform & Align Synthesize & Recommend Refine & Scribe

Proposed:

• Jun 30: Submission to WSCC
• ~Jul 11-13: Informal Formal Review
• Jul 18: Formal Review

TBD: “Informal Formal Review” PacCo WorkGroup “Third Thursday” Proposed: Submit Workplan to WSCC Scheduled: Formal Review

Protocol: we vote to “submit…”

(WSCC technically “approves”)

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

Time Topic Action Leader

:01

Agenda review/approval

Approve Kelly

:15 Calendar Check:

• WSCC formal review
• Overall work calendar

Propose & Commit Kelly

:60 Workplan Draft Review:

• Section 5

Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt

• Section 6

Individual Stewardship Plan Incentive Priorities Feedback All

:05 Next steps

Inform Kelly

Adjourn

Agenda: 18 May 2017

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/

5.xx Monitoring

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

Table 5-2 (page 59-60)

Priority Issue (Benchmark ID) Baseline Fecal coliform (WQl-1) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural contributions to fecal coliform bacteria and nutrient loading ENHANCE: Reduce…

Baseline to be established via Conservation District monitoring conducted during first five years (2017-2022)

Pesticides (WQl-2) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural contributions to known surface water and groundwater quality impairments by pesticides and herbicides ENHANCE: Reduce… Sediment / turbidity (WQl-3) PROTECT: Ensure no increase agricultural contributions to the transport of fine sediment in runoff ENHANCE: Reduce …

Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt

(Appendix H, page 6)

Performance Indicators 2 Monitoring Method 3, 4 Party Collecting Data Adaptive Management Threshold 4, 5 Adaptive Management Action E-1. Fecal coliform bacteria in surface waters from agricultural sources (focus: livestock) VSP-sponsored monitoring: annual focal watershed water quality sampling for fecal coliform with speciation Pacific Conservation District, with technical assistance from WSU for SOP development Significant increase in bacteria levels relative to baseline

• 1. Repeat testing to

confirm result

• 2. Work with existing

and potential VSP participants to identify corrective actions to existing stewardship practices and/or implement additional or different stewardship practices E-2. Nutrients in surface waters from agricultural sources (focus: cranberries, livestock) Collection and testing

• f water samples at
• utflows of Tarlett

Slough, Grayland ditch, and Willapa River for nitrates and phosphates, timed to align with fertilizer application (spring and fall annually)

Table 5-2

Priority Critical Area Issue (Benchmark ID) Baseline Fecal coliform (WQl-1) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural contributions to fecal coliform bacteria and nutrient loading ENHANCE: Reduce… Baseline established via monitoring to be conducting during first five years (2017-2022) Pesticides (WQl-2) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural contributions to known surface water and groundwater quality impairments by pesticides and herbicides ENHANCE: Reduce… Sediment/turbidity (WQl-3) PROTECT: Ensure no increase agricultural contributions to the transport of fine sediment in runoff ENHANCE: Reduce …

As described further in Section 5.2, effectiveness monitoring results will be reported in terms of trends relative to benchmarks and adaptive management thresholds on a watershed basis. Specific data results will be held in confidence by the PCD and used only to identify trends that will direct adaptive management activities. 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 through the VSP, rather than as the basis for regulatory measures.

Table 5-2

Priority Critical Area Issue (Benchmark ID) Baseline Fecal coliform (WQl-1) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural contributions to fecal coliform bacteria and nutrient loading ENHANCE: Reduce… Baseline established via monitoring to be conducting during first five years (2017-2022) Pesticides (WQl-2) PROTECT: Avoid increasing agricultural contributions to known surface water and groundwater quality impairments by pesticides and herbicides ENHANCE: Reduce… Sediment/turbidity (WQl-3) PROTECT: Ensure no increase agricultural contributions to the transport of fine sediment in runoff ENHANCE: Reduce …

Time Topic Action Leader

:01

Agenda review/approval

Approve Kelly

:15 Calendar Check:

• WSCC formal review
• Overall work calendar

Propose & Commit Kelly

:60 Workplan Draft Review:

• Section 5

Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt

• Section 6

Individual Stewardship Plan

Incentive priorities Feedback All

:05 Next steps

Inform Kelly

Adjourn

Agenda: 18 May 2017

Individual Stewardship Plan (ISP)

Confidentiality…

pages 65-66

Completed ISPs are kept and maintained by the PCD. VSP success depends on open participation by producers. This

• pen 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.

Ron Schulz is developing legal language to protect ISP information from release under public records requests; this will be included once available.

Time Topic Action Leader

:01

Agenda review/approval

Approve Kelly

:15 Calendar Check:

• WSCC formal review
• Overall work calendar

Propose & Commit Kelly

:60 Workplan Draft Review:

• Section 5

Monitoring & Adaptive Mgmt

• Section 6

Individual Stewardship Plan

Incentive Priorities

Feedback All

:05 Next steps

Inform Kelly

Adjourn

Agenda: 18 May 2017

6.3 Incentive Measures

pages 69-70

PacCo

$50K (Biennial budget) for Conservation District application Funds to be used for development and use of incentive programs, including but not limited to increased cost-share ratios.

✓Contributions to offset cost-share requirements for NRCS- or District programs ✓Enhance access to technical assistance (workshops, priority access to consulting resources) ✓VSP marketing (stewardship branding, signage, posters)

Incentive measures presented here have been identified by the Working Group as top priorities for implementation using VSP funds.

Next up… June 15

“Third Thursday”

✓ Full doc review

Incentive:

“VSP Good Steward” sign

After becoming VSP verified, a farm or ranch can display a VSP "Good Steward" sign to show peers and neighbors that being a good steward of the land is important to their

• peration. VSP “Good Steward” branding could also

provide added value to agricultural products

Workplan Implementation: Proposed

Conservation District Board of Supervisors

▪ Meets monthly ▪ Committee and/or direct oversight of VSP Workplan ▪ Other?

High Resolution Change Detection

“We are certainly willing to help. … we are asking for counties to kick in $5,000 to help cover the costs of generating the data – this would be the fee no matter what extent we analyze (e.g. county-wide vs just ag areas), and, as far as we know right now, this would be the cost for future iterations as well. If you would like to proceed, we would begin processing the data in the fall with the dataset ready to go by late 2017 or early 2018 – this would be for 2011 to 2015. If you are willing to wait a bit longer (~mid-2018) we could do 2011-2017, or any period that makes sense for your workplan. Matt Muller – Land Use Change Outreach Coordinator Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Office – (360) 902-2554 Mobile – (360) 485-2979 http://www.pshrcd.com/#/intro