Fred Heutte, Chair Environmental Data Working Group May 3, 2016 EDWG Update Fred Heutte, Chair Environmental Data Working Group May 3, 2016 Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council April 8 EDWG Meeting Key Topics Golden Eagle Water Data Exchange Environmental Data Sets review Cultural Data Viewer and Survey EDWG Outreach Plan – draft Fact Sheet Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council Golden Eagle Golden Eagle biology, behavior and range Daly Edmunds, EDWG and Audubon Rockies Brian Woodbridge, US Fish & Wildlife Service Todd Katzner, US Geological Survey Todd Lickfett, US Fish & Wildlife Service special guest appearance: www.goldeneaglecam.com Part II – EDWG July meeting Golden eagle interaction with transmission, avian protection plans – industry viewpoints Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Golden Eagle – “the WECC bird” Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Water Data Exchange (WaDE) WaDE is a Western States Water Council project Tony Willardson, EDWG and WSWC Sara Larson, WaDE Program Manager proposing joint WaDE/EDWG effort to exchange GIS data Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council EDWG Data Viewer CartoDB platform now publicly available -- give it a test drive: https://www.wecc.biz/TransmissionExpansionPlanning/Pages/Environmental-and-Cultural-Considerations.aspx Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council Cultural Data Viewer Finalizing development . . . Same CartoDB platform Going live May-June 2016 Karen de Dufour, deputy NV SHPO, providing assistance – SHPOs for WA, UT, CO, WY reviewing the Cultural Data Viewer Review by SHPO national technical group – strong support Will track usage with simple login process Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council EDWG Outreach Plan Identify target groups, their needs, trends and opportunities Use opportunities to market EDWG resources and technology Develop partnerships to better identify needs and ways to respond Develop EDWG outreach mechanisms to reach more people in the target groups Western Electricity Coordinating Council

EDWG Fact Sheet - preparation Comments still welcome this week -- draft available on today’s SPSG meeting page Western Electricity Coordinating Council

EDWG Data Uses 1 – PGE IRP/B&V Solar Potential Study Western Electricity Coordinating Council

EDWG Data Uses 2 – California RETI 2.0 Western Electricity Coordinating Council

EDWG Data Uses 3 – TransCanyon Cross-Tie Project Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council EDWG 2016 Meetings July 22, 2016 WECC, Salt Lake City October 7, 2016 WECC, Salt Lake City (or alternate) EDWG Contacts Fred Heutte, EDWG chair NW Energy Coalition fred@nwenergy.org 503.757-6222 Jon Jensen, WECC staff jjensen@wecc.biz 801.819-7614 Western Electricity Coordinating Council