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Conversation Contents Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary Attachments: /17. Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary/1.1 Feb 8 2018 ASWS - Agenda Items for Operations Meeting.docx /17. Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary/1.2 USGS Alaska Project Status and Highlights Towards DOI Priorities FY18- 19.docx /17. Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary/2.1 20180209Response to Deputy Secretary re ANWR | .docx /^TwoSummary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations _Meeting with Deputy Secretary/4.1 20180209Response to Deputy Secretary re ANWR | .docx Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov> From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov> Fri Feb 09 2018 06:53:42 GMT-0700 (MST) Dave Houseknecht <dhouse@usgs.gov> Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary Feb 8 2018 ASWS - Agenda Items for Operations Meeting.docx USGS Alaska Project Status and Highlights Towards DOI Priorities FY18-19.docx Dave, see Dave Applegate's note below re: b 5 I have my own thoughts on how to respond but do you have any comments you'd like to share? Let me know and I' craft a joint reply back to Geoff and Dave A. Thanks... Walter Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Plumlee, Geoffrey" <gplumlee@usgs.gov> Date: February 9, 2018 at 7:13:04 AM EST To: Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov>. David Diamond <dbdiamond@usgs.gov>. Sarah Ryker <srvker@usgs.gov> Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary Hi All - FYI, see Dave Applegate's summary of his weekly meeting with W&S below, in which DepSec asked about | Thanks, Geoff Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Ph.D. Associate Director Environmental Health Acting Associate Director Energy and Mineral Resources U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS102 Reston, VA 20192 Phone: (703) 648-6403 Fax: (703) 648-7031 gplumlee@usgs.gov https://profile.usas.aov/aplumlee See our web sites: www.usas.aov https://www.usas.aov/science/mission-areas/environmental-health https://www.usgs.gov/science/mission-areas/energy-and-minerals httD://minerals.cr.usas.aov/Droiects/minerals health/environmental-disasters.html ---------- Forwarded message-----------From: Applegate, David <applegate@usgs.gov> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:48 PM Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary To: Aimee Devaris <adevaris@usgs.gov> Cc: Anne Kinsinger <akinsinger@usgs.gov>. Geoff Plumlee <gplumlee@usgs.gov>. Judy Nowakowski <jnowakowski@usgs.gov>. Joanne Taylor <jctavlor@usgs.gov> Aimee (and Anne and Geoff for awareness). Thanks again for providing those talking points. which were very helpful in briefing the Deputy Secretary this afternoon. Dep Sec Bernhardt seemed pleased with the level of inter-bureau coordination going on in Alaska and the USGS contributions in particular. You will see an ask below for us to share the 2002 literature review -- he very much likes the new one. Is the 2002 review available electronically for us to share back through W&S? He wants to make sure that the land managers have access to all the literature and don't reinvent any wheels. Thanks. Dave David Applegate. Ph.D. Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising Authority of the Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 111. Reston VA 20192 703 648 6600 voice. 703 648 7031 fax applegate@usgs.gov ---------- Forwarded message -----------From: Applegate, David <applegate@usgs.gov> Date: Thu. Feb 8. 2018 at 11:39 PM Subject: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary To: William Werkheiser <whwerkhe@usgs.gov>. Judy Nowakowski <jnowakowski@usgs.gov>. Joanne Taylor <jctaylor@usgs.gov> Cc: "Lukas. William" <wlukas@usgs.gov> Bill and all, The bi-weekly Water & Science meeting with Deputy Secretary Bernhardt took place this afternoon. There were several requests from Bernhardt, which I've noted below. Tim Petty, Andrea Travnicek, Ryan Nichols, Austin Ewell, and Kerry Rae were there for W&S, Mat Maucieri for BOR, and Bernhardt and Todd Willens, and a couple of others whose names I did not catch (including one guy from DOI Comms shop). Andrea covered the status of the critical minerals Federal Register notice, and Bernhardt praised her for her work on that. A topic that I'll follow up with Tim about is the Administration's infrastructure package that will be going to the Hill on Monday. Bernhardt noted that he will be making Capitol Hill visits to argue the case for including BOR authorities, and they discussed preparing an outreach plan for pushing BOR priorities. I'll convey to Tim that we see a role for USGS as well. The USGS topic that was proposed by W&S was "Science activities in support of DOI priorities in Alaska". I shared the attached talking points from Aimee with W&S for their background. In my summary to Bernhardt, I focused on the scientific studies and assessments we are doing to underpin FWS and BLM actions on ANWR 1002 Area and NPR-A. When I described the activities underway to deliver an ANWR resource assessment by Jan. 2019, Bernhardt asked /-up is appropriate. Will check with I also discussed the marine and terrestrial ecosystem work related to ANWR and North Slope more generally. Bernhardt was very enthusiastic about the post-2002 literature review, but he wanted to be sure that we were providing the land managers with the pre-2002 literature as well. My sense is that the new report is an update of a previous USGS report, so will send note to Anne and Aimee about that. Bernhardt also noted his interest in being updated on the results from our ongoing marine and terrestrial ecosystems work related to caribous, waterfowl and walrus. He seemed less convinced of the importance of the polar bear studies (but also seemed to acknowledge his might be a minority opinion). I briefly touched on the progress made in Alaska mapping and the attention paid to volcano monitoring by Sen. Murkowski at last week's hearing. I closed by thanking him for his plan to sign certificates for all the DOI employees involved in the hurricane response activities (Greg is working with Office of Emergency Management on that with Holly, who already collected our names for our recognition purposes). Bernhardt had two more asks for USGS. First was whether we provide liaisons to large-scale projects such as ANWR. I said that we did, but it would be good if we could provide him with some examples (Everglades, RESTORE Act come to mind). He also asked us to provide a briefing paper by next Friday (2/16) about our Attachments: 20180209 Response to Deputy Secretary re ANWR (b) (5) .docx Here's a draft. Dave Houseknecht U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956 Reston, VA 20192 (703) 648-6466 On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov> wrote: r (5) Dave, see Dave Applegate's note below re: I have my own thoughts on how to respond but do you have any comments you'd like to share? Let me know and I craft a joint reply back to Geoff and Dave A. Thanks... Walter Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Plumlee, Geoffrey" <gplumlee@usgs.gov> Date: February 9, 2018 at 7:13:04 AM EST To: Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov>. David Diamond <dbdiamond@usgs.gov>. Sarah Ryker <srvker@usgs.gov> Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary Hi All - FYI, see Dave Applegate's summary of his weekly meeting with W&S below, in which DepSec asked about f(b) (5) Thanks, Geoff Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Ph.D. Associate Director Environmental Health Acting Associate Director Energy and Mineral Resources U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS102 Reston, VA 20192 Phone: (703) 648-6403 Fax: (703) 648-7031 gplumlee@usgs.gov httDs://Drofile.usas.aov/aDlumlee See our web sites: www.usas.aov https://www.usas.aov/science/mission-areas/environmental-health https://www.usgs.gov/science/mission-areas/energy-and-minerals httD://minerals.cr.usas.aov/Droiects/minerals health/environmental-disasters.html ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Applegate, David <applegate@usgs.gov> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:48 PM Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary To: Aimee Devaris <adevaris@usgs.gov> Cc: Anne Kinsinger <akinsinger@usgs.gov>. Geoff Plumlee <gplumlee@usgs.gov>. Judy Nowakowski <jnowakowski@usgs.gov>. Joanne Taylor <jctaylor@usgs.gov> Aimee (and Anne and Geoff for awareness). Thanks again for providing those talking points. which were very helpful in briefing the Deputy Secretary this afternoon. Dep Sec Bernhardt seemed pleased with the level of inter-bureau coordination going on in Alaska and the USGS contributions in particular. You will see an ask below for us to share the 2002 literature review -- he very much likes the new one. Is the 2002 review available electronically for us to share back through W&S? He wants to make sure that the land managers have access to all the literature and don't reinvent any wheels. Thanks. Dave David Applegate. Ph.D. Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising Authority of the Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 111. Reston VA 20192 703 648 6600 voice. 703 648 7031 fax applegate@usgs.gov ---------- Forwarded message----------From: Applegate, David <applegate@usgs.gov> Date: Thu. Feb 8. 2018 at 11:39 PM Subject: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary To: William Werkheiser <whwerkhe@usgs.gov>. Judy Nowakowski <jnowakowski@usgs.gov>. Joanne Taylor <jctaylor@usgs.gov> Cc: "Lukas. William" <wlukas@usgs.gov> Bill and all. The bi-weekly Water & Science meeting with Deputy Secretary Bernhardt took place this afternoon. There were several requests from Bernhardt. which I've noted below. Tim Petty. Andrea Travnicek. Ryan Nichols. Austin Ewell. and Kerry Rae were there for W&S. Mat Maucieri for BOR. and Bernhardt and Todd Willens. and a couple of others whose names I did not catch (including one guy from DOI Comms shop). Andrea covered the status of the critical minerals Federal Register notice. and Bernhardt praised her for her work on that. A topic that I'll follow up with Tim about is the Administration's infrastructure package that will be going to the Hill on Monday. Bernhardt noted that he will be making Capitol Hill visits to argue the case for including BOR authorities. and they discussed preparing an outreach plan for pushing BOR priorities. I'll convey to Tim that we see a role for USGS as well. The USGS topic that was proposed by W&S was "Science activities in support of DOI priorities in Alaska". I shared the attached talking points from Aimee with W&S for their background. In my summary to Bernhardt, I focused on the scientific studies and assessments we are doing to underpin FWS and BLM actions on ANWR 1002 Area and NPR-A. When I described the activities underway to deliver an ANWR resource assessment by Jan. 2019, Bernhardt asked I ' " (b) (5) ill check with Tim on what follow-up is appropriate. I also discussed the marine and terrestrial ecosystem work related to ANWR and North Slope more generally. Bernhardt was very enthusiastic about the post-2002 literature review, but he wanted to be sure that we were providing the land managers with the pre-2002 literature as well. My sense is that the new report is an update of a previous USGS report, so will send note to Anne and Aimee about that. Bernhardt also noted his interest in being updated on the results from our ongoing marine and terrestrial ecosystems work related to caribous, waterfowl and walrus. He seemed less convinced of the importance of the polar bear studies (but also seemed to acknowledge his might be a minority opinion). I briefly touched on the progress made in Alaska mapping and the attention paid to volcano monitoring by Sen. Murkowski at last week's hearing. I closed by thanking him for his plan to sign certificates for all the DOI employees involved in the hurricane response activities (Greg is working with Office of Emergency Management on that with Holly, who already collected our names for our recognition purposes). Bernhardt had two more asks for USGS. First was whether we provide liaisons to large-scale projects such as ANWR. I said that we did, but it would be good if we could provide him with some examples (Everglades, RESTORE Act come to mind). He also asked us to provide a briefing paper by next Friday (2/16) about our overhead rates for reimbursable agreements. He specifically asked about the "rate of increase" for such rates and noted that he had heard we charge as much as 50%, which he clearly viewed as excessive. I did not end up sharing the pilot Anticipated USGS Publications spreadsheet. The topic didn't come up. Let me know if you have any questions. Dave David Applegate, Ph.D. Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising Authority of the Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 111, Reston VA 20192 703 648 6600 voice, 703 648 7031 fax appleaate@usas.gov ---------- Forwarded message-----------From: Rae, Kerry <kerrv rae@ios.doi.aov> Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:19 PM Subject: Proposed Agenda for tomorrow's Bi-Weekly ASWS Ops To: Gareth Rees <aareth rees@ios.doi.aov>. Todd Willens <todd willens@ios.doi.aov> Cc: Tim Petty <timothv pettv@ios.doi.aov>. Andrea Travnicek <andrea travnicek@ios.doi.aov>. Ryan Nichols <rvan nichols@ios.doi.aov>. Austin Ewell <austin ewell@ios.doi.aov>. "Applegate, David" <apDleaate@usas.aov>. Mathew Maucieri <MMAUCIERI@usbr.aov>. Brenda Burman <bburman@usbr.aov>. William Werkheiser <whwerkhe@usas.aov> Hi - Please see attached for tomorrow. Let us know if you have additions/edits. Thanks, Kerry Kerry Rae Chief of Staff for Water & Science US. Department of the Interior Phone: 202-513-0535 Mobile: 202-494-4101 Email: Kerry Rae@ios.doi.Qov "Houseknecht, David" <dhouse@usgs.gov> From: Sent: To: Subject: "Houseknecht, David" <dhouse@usgs.gov> Fri Feb 09 2018 07:47:10 GMT-0700 (MST) Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov> Re: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary I should have added: (5) (b)(5) - AC P/AWP (b)(5) - AC P/AW P (b)(5) - ACP/AWP (b)(5) - ACP/AWP Dave Houseknecht U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956 ' Reston, VA 20192 (703) 648-6466 On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov> wrote: Dave, see Dave Applegate's note below re: b 5 I have my own thoughts on how to respond but do you have any comments you'd like to share? Let me know and I craft a joint reply back to Geoff and Dave A. Thanks... Walter Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Plumlee, Geoffrey" <gplumlee@usgs.gov> Date: February 9, 2018 at 7:13:04 AM EST To: Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov>, David Diamond <dbdiamond@usgs.gov>, Sarah Ryker <sryker@usgs.gov> Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary Hi All - FYI, see Dave Applegate's summary of his weekly meeting with W&S below, in which DepSec asked about f Thanks, Geoff Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Ph.D. Associate Director Environmental Health Acting Associate Director Energy and Mineral Resources U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS102 Reston, VA 20192 Phone: (703) 648-6403 Fax: (703) 648-7031 gplumlee@usgs.gov httDs://Drofile.usas.aov/aDlumlee See our web sites: www.usas.aov https://www.usas.aov/science/mission-areas/environmental-health https://www.usgs.gov/science/mission-areas/energy-and-minerals httD://minerals.cr.usas.aov/Droiects/minerals health/environmental-disasters.html ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Applegate, David <applegate@usgs.gov> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:48 PM Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary To: Aimee Devaris <adevaris@usgs.gov> Cc: Anne Kinsinger <akinsinger@usgs.gov>, Geoff Plumlee <gplumlee@usgs.gov>, Judy Nowakowski <jnowakowski@usgs.gov>, Joanne Taylor <jctaylor@usgs.gov> Aimee (and Anne and Geoff for awareness), I also discussed the marine and terrestrial ecosystem work related to ANWR and North Slope more generally. Bernhardt was very enthusiastic about the post-2002 literature review, but he wanted to be sure that we were providing the land managers with the pre-2002 literature as well. My sense is that the new report is an update of a previous USGS report, so will send note to Anne and Aimee about that. Bernhardt also noted his interest in being updated on the results from our ongoing marine and terrestrial ecosystems work related to caribous, waterfowl and walrus. He seemed less convinced of the importance of the polar bear studies (but also seemed to acknowledge his might be a minority opinion). I briefly touched on the progress made in Alaska mapping and the attention paid to volcano monitoring by Sen. Murkowski at last week's hearing. I closed by thanking him for his plan to sign certificates for all the DOI employees involved in the hurricane response activities (Greg is working with Office of Emergency Management on that with Holly, who already collected our names for our recognition purposes). Bernhardt had two more asks for USGS. First was whether we provide liaisons to large-scale projects such as ANWR. I said that we did, but it would be good if we could provide him with some examples (Everglades, RESTORE Act come to mind). He also asked us to provide a briefing paper by next Friday (2/16) about our overhead rates for reimbursable agreements. He specifically asked about the "rate of increase" for such rates and noted that he had heard we charge as much as 50%, which he clearly viewed as excessive. I did not end up sharing the pilot Anticipated USGS Publications spreadsheet. The topic didn't come up. Let me know if you have any questions. Dave David Applegate, Ph.D. Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising Authority of the Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 111, Reston VA 20192 703 648 6600 voice, 703 648 7031 fax appleaate@usas.gov ---------- Forwarded message-----------From: Rae, Kerry <kerrv rae@ios.doi.gov> Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:19 PM Subject: Proposed Agenda for tomorrow's Bi-Weekly ASWS Ops To: Gareth Rees <gareth rees@ios.doi.gov>. Todd Willens <todd willens@ios.doi.gov> Cc: Tim Petty <timothv petty@ios.doi.gov>. Andrea Travnicek Bill and all, The bi-weekly Water & Science meeting with Deputy Secretary Bernhardt took place this afternoon. There were several requests from Bernhardt, which I've noted below. Tim Petty, Andrea Travnicek, Ryan Nichols, Austin Ewell, and Kerry Rae were there for W&S, Mat Maucieri for BOR, and Bernhardt and Todd Widens, and a couple of others whose names I did not catch (including one guy from DOI Comms shop). Andrea covered the status of the critical minerals Federal Register notice, and Bernhardt praised her for her work on that. A topic that I'll follow up with Tim about is the Administration's infrastructure package that will be going to the Hill on Monday. Bernhardt noted that he will be making Capitol Hill visits to argue the case for including BOR authorities, and they discussed preparing an outreach plan for pushing BOR priorities. I'll convey to Tim that we see a role for USGS as well. The USGS topic that was proposed by W&S was "Science activities in support of DOI priorities in Alaska". I shared the attached talking points from Aimee with W&S for then background. In my summary to Bernhardt, I focused on the scientific studies and assessments we are doing to underpin FWS and BLM actions on ANWR 1002 Area and NPR-A. When I described the activities underway to deliver an ANWR resource assessment by Jan. 2019, Bernhardt asked I appropriate. ollow-up is I also discussed the marine and terrestrial ecosystem work related to ANWR and North Slope more generally. Bernhardt was very enthusiastic about the post-2002 literature review, but he wanted to be sure that we were providing the land managers with the pre-2002 literature as well. My sense is that the new report is an update of a previous USGS report, so will send note to Anne and Aimee about that. Bernhardt also noted his interest in being updated on the results from our ongoing marine and terrestrial ecosystems work related to caribous, waterfowl and walrus. He seemed less convinced of the importance of the polar bear studies (but also seemed to acknowledge his might be a minority opinion). I briefly touched on the progress made in Alaska mapping and the attention paid to volcano monitoring by Sen. Murkowski at last week's hearing. I closed by thanking him for his plan to sign certificates for all the DOI employees involved in the hurricane response activities (Greg is working with Office of Emergency Management on that with Holly, who already collected our names for our recognition purposes). Bernhardt had two more asks for USGS. First was whether we provide liaisons to large-scale projects such as ANWR. I said that we did, but it would be good if we could provide him with some examples (Everglades, RESTORE Act come to mind). He also asked us to provide a briefing paper by next Friday (2/16) about our overhead rates for reimbursable agreements. He specifically asked about the "rate of increase" for such rates and noted that he had heard we charge as much as 50%, which he clearly viewed as excessive. I did not end up sharing the pilot Anticipated USGS Publications spreadsheet. The topic didn't come up. Let me know if you have any questions. Dave David Applegate, Ph.D. Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising Authority of the Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 111, Reston VA 20192 703 648 6600 voice, 703 648 7031 fax applegate@usgs.gov -----------Forwarded message-----------From: Rae, Kerry <kerry_rae@ios.doi.gov> Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:19 PM Subject: Proposed Agenda for tomorrow's Bi-Weekly ASWS Ops To: Gareth Rees <gareth_rees@ios.doi.gov>. Todd Willens <todd_willens@ios.doi.gov> Cc: Tim Petty <timothy_petty@ios.doi.gov>. Andrea Travnicek <andrea_travnicek@ios.doi.gov> Ryan Nichols <ryan_nichols@ios.doi.gov>, Austin Ewell <austin_ewell@ios.doi.gov>, "Applegate, David" <applegate@usgs.gov>, Mathew Maucieri <MMAUCIERI@usbr.gov>. Brenda Burman <bburman@usbr.gov>. William Werkheiser <whwerkhe@usgs.gov> Hi - Please see attached for tomorrow. Let us know if you have additions/edits. Thanks, Kerry Kerry Rae Chief of Staff for Water & Science U.S. Department of the Interior Phone: 202-513-0535 Mobile: 202-494-4101 Email: Kerry Rae@ios.doi.gov "Applegate, David" <applegate@usgs.gov> From: Sent: To: CC: Subject: Very helpful. Thanks! "Applegate, David" <applegate@usgs.gov> Mon Feb 12 2018 08:54:09 GMT-0700 (MST) Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov> Geoffrey Plumlee <gplumlee@usgs.gov>, David Diamond <dbdiamond@usgs.gov>, Sarah Ryker <sryker@usgs.gov>, "Houseknecht, David" <dhouse@usgs.gov>, Judy Nowakowski <jnowakowski@usgs.gov>, Joanne Taylor <jctaylor@usgs.gov>, William Lukas <wlukas@usgs.gov>, "Devaris, Aimee" <adevaris@usgs.gov> Re: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary David Applegate, Ph.D. Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising Authority of the Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 111, Reston VA 20192 703 648 6600 voice, 703 648 7031 fax applegate@usgs.gov On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Walter Guidroz <wguidroz@usgs.gov> wrote: Dave A et al., Please see attached re: comments related b 5 courtesy of Dave Houseknecht. Please let us know if you have any questions, need to discuss further, or desire a condensed version of the attached. Presumably this will be a topic of conversation that could arise in any briefing that takes place in the next few weeks. Thanks... Walter From: Plumlee, Geoffrey rmailto:gplumlee@,usgs.govl Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 7:13 AM To: Walter Guidroz <wauidroz@.usas.aov>: David Diamond <dbdiamond@usgs.gov>: Sarah Ryker <srvker@.usas.aov> Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary Hi All - FYI, see Dave Applegate's summary of his weekly meeting with W&S below, in which DepSec asked about |l(b) (5) Thanks, Geoff Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Ph.D. Associate Director Environmental Health Acting Associate Director Energy and Mineral Resources U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS102 Reston, VA 20192 Phone: (703) 648-6403 Fax: (703) 648-7031 gplumlee@usgs.gov https://profile.usgs.gov/gplumlee See our web sites: www.usgs.gov https://www.usgs.gov/science/mission-areas/environmental-health https://www.usgs.gov/science/mission-areas/energy-and-minerals http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/proiects/minerals health/environmental-disasters.html -----------Forwarded message -----------From: Applegate, David <applegate@usgs.gov> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:48 PM Subject: Fwd: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary To: Aimee Devaris <adevaris@usgs.gov> Cc: Anne Kinsinger <akinsinger@usgs.gov>. Geoff Plumlee <gplumlee@usgs.gov>. Judy Nowakowski <jnowakowski@usgs.gov>, Joanne Taylor <jctaylor@usgs.gov> Aimee (and Anne and Geoff for awareness), Thanks again for providing those talking points, which were very helpful in briefing the Deputy Secretary this afternoon. Dep Sec Bernhardt seemed pleased with the level of inter-bureau coordination going on in Alaska and the USGS contributions in particular. You will see an ask below for us to share the 2002 literature review -- he very much likes the new one. Is the 2002 review available electronically for us to share back through W&S? He wants to make sure that the land managers have access to all the literature and don't reinvent any wheels. Thanks, Dave David Applegate, Ph.D. Associate Director for Natural Hazards Exercising Authority of the Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 111. Reston VA 20192 703 648 6600 voice, 703 648 7031 fax aDDleaate@usas.aov ----------- Forwarded message-----------From: Applegate, David <applegate@usgs. gov> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:39 PM Subject: Summary of Bi-Weekly ASWS Operations Meeting with Deputy Secretary To: William Werkheiser <whwerklie@usgs.sov>. Judy Nowakowski <inowakowski@usgs.gov>. Joanne Taylor <i ctavlor@usgs. gov> Cc: "Lukas, William" <wlukas@usgs.gov> Bill and all, The bi-weekly Water & Science meeting with Deputy Secretary Bernhardt took place this afternoon. There were several requests from Bernhardt, which I've noted below. Tim Petty, Andrea Travnicek, Ryan Nichols, Austin Ewell, and Kerry Rae were there for W&S, Mat Maucieri for BOR, and Bernhardt and Todd Widens, and a couple of others whose names I did not catch (including one guy from DOI Coimns shop). Andrea covered the status of the critical minerals Federal Register notice, and Bernhardt praised her for her work on that. A topic that I'll follow up with Tim about is the Administration's infrastructure package that will be going to the Hill on Monday. Bernhardt noted that he will be making Capitol Hill visits to argue the case for including BOR authorities, and they discussed preparing an outreach plan for pushing BOR priorities. I'll convey to Tim that we see a role for USGS as well. The USGS topic that was proposed by W&S was "Science activities in support of DOI priorities in Alaska". I shared the attached talking points from Aimee with W&S for then background. In my summary to Bernhardt, I focused on the scientific studies and assessments we are doing to underpin FWS and BLM actions on ANWR 1002 Area and NPR-A. When I described the activities underway to deliver an ANWR resource assessment by Jan. 2019, Bernhardt asked I what follow-up is appropriate. Will check with Tim on I also discussed the marine and terrestrial ecosystem work related to ANWR and North Slope more generally. Bernhardt was very enthusiastic about the post-2002 literature review, but he wanted to be sure that we were providing the land managers with the pre-2002 literature as well. My sense is that the new report is an update of a previous USGS report, so will send note to Anne and Aimee about that. Offi ce of the Deputy Secretary Agenda Template for Bi "^Weekly O perational Meetin g Room 6120 " Cal l"in , Participant Code (Leader Code I I#) F ebruary 8 " Attendees! AS^VS - Ti m Petty, Andrea Travnicek, Austin Ewell, Rya n Nichols, Kerry Ra e; BOR - Mat M aucieri; USGS - D avid Applegate. Agenda Items Deputy S ecr etary Assistant Secretary - W ate r & Sci ence 1) C ritical M i nerals S.O. update B ureaus USGS 1) Sci ence activities in support of DOI priorities in Al aska Rec lamati o 1) C omments received to date on the ROCON LTO NOI 2) C alifornia hydrology 3) NAWS litigation and project status 4) WIIN Storage Me awareness.) (important external planned meetings for Deputy Secretary's office Feb 7-8 R eclamation Leadership Team M eeting, Denver, CO (B renda) Feb 13-15 Gi en Canyon Dam Ad a pti ve M anagement W ork Group meeting (Andrea) Feb 23-25 F amily Farm A lliance annual meeting, Reno, NV (B renda) M arch 6 N ational Ground ^Water Association - W ater Resources Congressional Summit, D.C. (T im invited) M arch 14-15 W estern States Water C ouncil/I nterstate Council on W ater Policy (WSWC/ICWP) Washington DC Rou ndtable, D.C. (Tim, Brenda, + other DOI) March 16 Apr 9-13 WSWC + WestFAST Principals' meeting, D.C. (Tim +) Reclamation-USAC E A nnual Leadership Meeting, Boulder City, NV Foa^^cadSeekikg^eeeeeaSk.e.^EkSeeeaSke.pies/peseeSiaSsssees-g^waceeess.. (important topics/issues on the horizon) S urname Packages -- (packages in process that are time sensitive or have other notable issues important to highlight) 1) C ritical M inerals Federal Register notice 2) NOA and SDEIS for Kachess Drought Relief Pumping Plan and Keechelus Reservoii--to-Kachess Reservoir Conveyance S I Orders -- check-in and update from Assistant Secretary/Bureau on meaningful progress (cover one or tw o per meeting due to time constraints). Secretarial Order 3359 - C ritical M ineral Independence and Security USGS Update - Pursuant to the Executive Order (EO) No. 13817 "A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals" and SO 3359, the USGS has developed a proposed list of minerals defined as "critical minerals," to be published in the Federal Register no later than February 18, 2018. The critical mineral screening methodology developed under the auspices of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) interagency Subcommittee on Critical and Strategic Mineral S upply C hains (CSMSC) served as the starting point for developing the list required by the Executive and Secretarial Orders. The USGS worked on a draft of the list that was shared with DOI and the CSMSC members last month, in advance of the CSMSC S ubcommittee meeting held January 11. The list was refined by the USGS in coordination with the Bureau of Land M anagement (BLM) and other U.S. G overnment agency stakeholders as called for by the S.O. O utreach across other agencies has been coordinated by DAS/WS A ndrea Travnicek, and the draft list is being finalized for posting to the Federal Reg ister to comply with the 60 -day requirement for public commernt as directed by EO 13817. PRE-DECISIONAL DISCUSSION DRAFT - FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY USGS Ala ska |P r oject Status I ard DOI Pr iorities FY 2018 - FY2019 USGS is planning and convening scientific studies and assessments to support the BLM and FWS actions pertaining to the NPR-A the Ar ctic CO oastal |P lain. Oil and Gas A ssessmen ts Secretarial Order 3352 (signed May 31, 2017) directed the USGS to conduct updated assessments of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and natural gas resources of the Ai aska North Slope, focusing on Federal lands of the National Petroleum Reserve in Al aska (NPR-A) and the Arctic Refuge coastal plain (1002 A rea ). Th ese assessments are being conducted in technical cooperation/collaboration with BLM and BOEM. The USGS completed an updated assessment of NPR-A in December 2017, https://doi. org/10.3133/fs20173088 USGS has proposed completion of an updated assessment of the 1002 Area by J anuary 1, 2019. In preparation for the 1002 A rea assessme nt, the USGS: o Conducted field work in and near the 1002 A rea in July -August 2017. o Plans additional field work in and near the 1002 A rea in June-July 2018. o Contracted for reprocessing 1984-1985 2D seismic data from the 1002 A re a. o Is conducting laboratory analyses of field and subsurface samples to improve understanding of key petroleum systems elements (petroleum source-rock and reservoir-rock quali ty, thermal maturity, uplift and exhumation history, etc.). o Plans to integrate results of field and laboratory research with interpretation of reprocessed 2D seismic data to further understand key petroleum systems elements and to evaluate significant uncertainties revealed by previous assessment. M arine and Terrestrial Ecosystems W ork USGS recently published a report, "Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain Terrestrial Wildlife Research Summaries," to provide a summary of changes in terrestrial wildlife (i.e., caribou, muskoxen, polar bears) based on information from published literature and other public sources. This report was an update to a USGS -led report published in 2002. USGS plans to expand 2018 field research to increase observations of denning polar bears in the 1002 A rea to evaluate forward looking radar (FLIR) based surveys (funded by FWS this winter) to monitor potential disturbance from winter seismic and developm ent acti vities. We are also working on a polar bear abundance estimate for the 1002 Area for FWS , to update the 2010 estimate. Ongoing collaborative research with industry into the habituation of caribou to energy infrastructure to inform future development design criteria in NPR-A and 1002 A rea. We are working with industry and BLM to quantify waterfowl resilience to disturbance from roads and aircraft in the NPR-A and continuing research into the expanding northern Alaska snow goose population in the NPR-A. We are also continuing surveys to determine the number of Pacific walruses using the land-based haul out near P oint Lay, Alaska, which comprises the majority of the walruses in the northeastern Chukchi Sea during summer. 1 PRE-DECISIONAL DISCUSSION DRAFT - FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY State of A laska to fund and execute these projects. USGS has funded about half of the effort which exceeds $50M so far. USGS is coordinating the support for a Pan-Arctic digital elevation model as well as an activity under the Arctic Council. I n 2017, USGS released the shoreline change rate assessment for the northern (Arctic) coast of Alaska, showing coastal erosion rates are high and appear to be accelerating. (Measurements of historical shoreline positions from maps, charts, aerial photography, and satellite imagery, combined with recently collected airborne Lidar data of the coast, are being used to document rates of shoreline change.) USGS is preparing to release a similar assessment for the western (Bering Sea) coast of Al aska later this year. This information is important and highly regarded by the State of Al aska and our federal partners in land management. Th e state is concerned with dozens of communities which are highly vulnerable to devastation due to flooding and erosion. Two communities are already in the process of moving and others are likely to follow. USGS is modernizing its volcano monitoring systems in Ai aska and working with partners to leverage new observing networks. USGS is the lead agency and through Congressional appropriations a primary funding agency of the Al aska Volcano Observatory (AVO) and the Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC), a partnership among the USGS, UAF, and the State of Al aska. Al aska has more than 50 volcanoes that have been historical active, since about 1760. USGS through AVO operates over 185 monitoring stations on a subset of those volcanoes. Th ese monitoring stations enable AVO to issue forecasts of activity on approximately 30 A laskan volcanoes. AVO is in the midst of upgrading those stations from obsolete analog instrumentation to modern digital instruments that will enable better forecasts of volcanic activity. (~40% compl ete) The most significant and common hazards from A laska volcanoes are those created by drifting ash clouds and ashfall. Aircraft avoid ash-contaminated airspace as volcanic ash is abrasive, melts at jet engine temperatures, and can cause engine failure. USGS helps limit economic loss and disruption to operation of the aviation industry and DOD by forecasting eruptions and working with NOAA to track drifting ash clouds. Most volcanoes in Al aska fall either completely or partly on NPS or FWS i ands. Al aska is also the most seism ically active state in the nation -- more earthquakes occur in Al aska annually than in the rest of the US combined. USGS research in Al aska is focused on the high hazard potential of earthquakes and tsunamis and subduction zone science. We are also working closely with the AEC regarding the future of the NSF T ransporta ble Arra y, a relatively dense grid of seismographs and atmospheric sensors temporarily deployed to provide intensive information to inform a range of research topics. 3 I provide a concise response to the Deputy Secretary's question followed by a more complete explanati on.