they had an amendment to that in november and ferc may have added things based on other people comments. we don't know what's in that yet. there may be additional requirements. this is the district's preferred project in the finalized amendment. >> commissioner: how far down the page does it continue? >> the functional flow page and the flow schedule included summer outflows and critical and dry years came out of the state discussion and the flood pain pulse flow came out of the discussions with the state as well. they're the additions on top of what's on top of the mended final license application. >> commissioner: and those are both additional flows in the river with wet water. in the face of the increased summer outflows in critical and dry years there was a balancing of sorts. there was a reduction in the minimum outflow in wet and above normal years which in most normal years there's far more water in the river than the minimum required but it did add the equal amount in the dry years when the water is critical. >> commissioner: okay. was that a balance? >> it probably didn't mean

as we discussed, they're the ones who develop the model of the direction of ferc. let's be clear, that's just the model. a model is just a model. one of my favorite sayings is all models are wrong and some are useful because they really give an indication of what you should do than the one and only answer. i put that big caveat on opposed to a peer review of the entire package of things. it's about the model. that's the technical question. and so on that, i have an answer by the next meeting as well as to where we're going to go on that because that would be a nice thing to be able to say here's some clarity on that. >> and there's relevant pieces or what that's going to look like and by when would be helpful as well. i had a question on one of these slides. you say the agreement of the interested parties, what is it, implementation is subject to mutual agreement of the parties. who are those parties? that's the slide relative to the -- slide eight. >> the parties at that point the department of fish and wildlife and department of resources an turlock and modesto i

the flows pending before ferc and the relicensing of don pedro is the flow schedule modified november 14 consistent with fish and wildlife services providing additional flow and then as a result of the discussion with the state modified to include increased summer outflows in critical and dry water years and flood plain pulse flows added in all year types plus dry and critical year off-ramps in quence -- sequence with dry year and back off as the water supply got tighter and tighter. and there's the habitat in proich plan for improvements and it's spilling water more than intended and you heard when we had 3 million acre feet available to the city. almost all of that was quote, spill water. what was called for as part of the fish and wildlife discussion was developing a spill management plan aimed at spilling in a timely fashion that provides for chin hook salmon and there's measures with gravel augmentation and predation management and estimated at a cost of $38 million and the establishment of the improvement program for implementing non-flow measure resource projects that enhance h

things and ferc determines who gets on the grid nationally. we also heard from one of the leadingat -- one of the members of the he had ison electric instulet, excel energy explained the commitment of his utility to a much smaller carbon footprint and like other responsible utility companies have been headed in good faith in that direction. so the effort yesterday was to sort of flag for folks and a number of you were there, what exactly are the impediments to our cities getting to 100%. i walked away and this is the marching orders now that we would like especially in partnership not only with folks like kevin and his organization, but as well as the utilities to figure that out because as mayors, our currency is our credibility. we can embrace the moonshot approach and say we are getting to 100% by next date and people will say how do you do that and not raise our electric bills and we have to have answers for that. the answers are bound up in the details, both regulatory and engineering. we have to as a group get at. the next big step is to

for the lock and lease will terminate and the ferc will be the sun tenant of rfpd on the commencement date of m.o.. the parties will release claims against the other. anything else with will not be talked about in open session. >> is there a second. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> item 6, pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> item 7, announcements. announcement on prohibition of sound-producing electronic devices during the meeting. ringing of or use of cellphones, pagers and similar sounding electric devices are prohibited during this meeting. please be advised the chair may order the removal if any person is responsible for the use of their cellphone and other similar sound-producing electronic devices. announcement of time allotment. members of the public have up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period of public comment time. item 8, public c

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united states do that and then above them, we've got the regional transition operators that work with fercfederal energy regulatory commission, so they've got the capacity to do that. the process works very well and there are a lot of companies out there, everything from the independently owned university like pepco who serves us today in washington d.c., down to municipal and the cooperatives as well and then the department of energy actually has three power marketing utility administrations that cover two square miles where we take our federal hydro systems owned by the bureau of deck creclamations or army corps and with the transition lines and cover about 31 states. when you started your position last year, the first place you went was puerto rico. >> yes. >> can you give us sort of a rundown of how things are going there now. it took, more than-- well, more than 11 months for everybody to get their lights back on. how are they doing? >> they're continuing to work with a recovery plan and we're working with them through the office. through them, we've built a model for them. and we've