9 Nov 99 SEG Meeting Agenda

[Draft] Agenda

Savannah Harbor Improvement Project

Stakeholders Evaluation Group (SEG) Meeting

November 9, 1999—9:00am-1:00pm

Mighty 8th Air Force Heritage Museum—Savannah

[Prepared 10/29/99 by Ben Dysart (SEG meeting facilitator) based on results of 10/19/99 SEG meeting and will be updated based on responses to 10/29/99 email request for agenda inputs received from SEG Members. Updated 11/2/99 based on inputs from SEG Members received to date. Updated and re-posted 11/5/99 based on SEG Members' input. Updated 11/8/99 based on SEG Members' input.]

[0] Coffee, mixing, and mingling—8:45-9:00am

[1] SEG Meeting Comes to Order—9:00am

[2] Introduction of SEG Members and Others—all

[3] Facilitator's Comments & Any Initial Focusing Exercise—Ben Dysart

[4] Communications report—Ben Brewton

(to complete action on a number of procedural and process-oriented topics not yet discussed when October SEG meeting ended at agreed-upon extended stopping time)

[4A] recommendation 1/13: agendas,

[4B] recommendation 2/13: e-mail notification,

[4C] recommendation 4/13: declarative statements on consensus items,

[4D] recommendation 5/13: standardized format for agenda and indexes,

[4E] recommendation 8/13: need for master project file,

[4F] recommendation 9/13: record keeping and information access needs for SEG committees and SEG-sanctioned scientific tasks,

[4G] recommendation 10/13: Web site

[4H] recommendation 11/13: notice of committee meetings,

[4I] recommendation 12/13: maintenance of SEG e-mail list contact list,

[4J] recommendation 13/13: other items discussed (audio tapes and copies, video tapes of meetings, SEG representation),
etc.

recommendation 3/13: meeting records/minutes/summaries/transcripts (acted on 10/19/99)

recommendation 6/13: clear labeling of unapproved records/minutes/summaries/transcripts (acted on 10/19/99)
recommendation 7/13: resolution of backlog of deferred/rejected meeting records/minutes/summaries/transcripts which remain unapproved/rejected (acted on 10/19/99)

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[5] SEG Members' Approval of Meeting Agenda—all SEG Members

[6] Corps of Engineers Scientific Studies—Joe Schmitt

The focus of the presentations will be (a) what the scope, schedule, and budget for the study is and (b) how the study itself (and its results) may impact the on going efforts of the Savannah Harbor Expansion project.

[7] Savannah Harbor River Basin Comprehensive Study--Leroy Crosby

[8] Savannah Harbor Ecosystem Restoration--Susan Durden

[9] Section 1135 Back River Study--Terry Stratton

[10] Tybee Beach Renourishment--Larry Lyons

[11] Section 111 Study @ Tybee--Larry Lyons

[12] Section 107 Upstream Harbor Study--Martin Cooley

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[13] Approval of Summaries/Minutes/Transcripts/Records of Previous SEG Meetings: Part 1—non-"Backlogged"

(posted for review by SEG Members but not previously discussed at a SEG meeting)

[14] August (posted approximately 2 months, and no [editorial] comments received from any SEG Members)

[15] September—no SEG meeting, therefore no minutes/summary/transcript

[16] October

[17] Approval of Summaries/Minutes/Transcripts/Records of Previous SEG Meetings: Part 2—"Backlog of deferred/rejected summaries"

(all have been revised as per SEG and individual SEG Member and Member agency instructions and have been posted or re-posted for review by SEG Members for about 2 months or more without receipt of any comment from any SEG Members)

[18] May

[19] June

[20] July

[21] Update on Favorable Chief's Report of 10/21/99—Morgan Rees

[22] SEG Environmental Impact Scientific Working Committee Reports/Identifying the Scientific Studies Needed to drive the SEG Mission & Other Active Science—Impact Working Committee Chairs + SEG Member discussion as desired by Membership

(reports from each SEG committee that is delineating the scientific studies needed to assess likely environmental impacts and to suggest suitable mitigation measures)

[23] Beach Erosion report—Bill Farmer

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[24] Dredging and Disposal report—Rob Mikell & John Phillips

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[25] Fisheries and Aquatic Resources report—Bill Bailey & Prescott Brownell

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[26] MTRG report—Bo Ellis

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[27] Shortnose Sturgeon report—Morgan Rees with comments as desired by Priscilla Wendt, Prescott Brownell, and Bo Ellis

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[28] Striped Bass report—Tom Meronek

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[29] Any other active scientific studies activity related to accomplishing the SEG Mission to be reported to or shared with SEG—Whomever

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[30] Break—10 minutes

[31] Follow-up on "Adequacy of Current SEG Impact Working Committees" as Desired—Bill Farmer (and others who have suggested this as needing to be dealt with) and Morgan Rees (as chair of the Operating Guidelines Committee that tracks committees and SEG-identified impacts)—facilitated by Ben Dysart

(for efforts related to:

evaluating adequacy of existing SEG impact working committees to effectively delineate the scientific studies needed to assess likely environmental impacts and to suggest suitable mitigation measures for impacts already identified by the SEG and of active concern to SEG,
(b) establishing any additional SEG impact working committees and committee leadership necessary to delineate the scientific studies needed to assess likely environmental impacts and to suggest suitable mitigation measures for impacts already identified by the SEG—but not being addressed currently by any existing SEG committee, or
(c) indicate that some topics will not be actively considered by SEG so far as specifying the needed scientific studies)

SEG Operating Guidelines, Section VII, Appendix B
Matrix evaluation—identified impacts vs. current SEG impact working committees (the "Farmer diagram" handed out to SEG previously and modified by facilitator)

[32] Ballast Water—Priscilla Wendt & Charlie Moore

(prospective issue for addition to SEG action list)

Include as new SEG action issue?

[33] Other Current SEG Working Committees—Other Working Committee Chairs + SEG Member discussion as desired by Membership

(reports from other SEG committees)

[4'] Communications report—Ben Brewton--[relocated to front of meeting at the chair's request]

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[34] Economics report—Judy Jennings—to present summary of topics on which committee has agreed and topics which committee agrees should be addressed or more fully addressed in the revised economic analysis

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[35] Operating Guidelines report—Morgan Rees

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[36] Break—10 minutes

[37] Other Topics—topics requested by SEG Members

(other topics of a general or specific nature germane to the SEG Mission that individual SEG Members want to put before the SEG for discussion and action)

[38] Additional follow-up discussion on the August and October discussion of the June 19 GPA letter to Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Westphal re: phase-I EIS—Ben Brewton (not completed in October)

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired
Include as new SEG action issue?

[39] Progress report/SEG accomplishments—Morgan Rees (deferred from October)

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[40] Media briefing on field data collection and water quality modeling efforts—Trish Rees (deferred from October)

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired

[41] Tidal amplitude—Neff McIntosh (new for November)

Discussion by SEG Members as/if desired
Include as new SEG action issue?

[42] Next Meeting Date

December 1999 (12/7?)
Enough Mission-related science to warrant a December meeting?
January 2000 (1/4 or 1/11?)
Always 1^st Tuesday—or not?
This location OK?—Not available 12/99 & 6/00

[43] Adjourn SEG Meeting—by or before 1:00pm

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