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<br />TO:Tisa Shosstick, NOAAA Restorationn Center, Sillver Spring, MD <br />Megan Hiilgart, NOAAA Restoratioon Center, Portland, OR <br />FROM:Kevin Finnney, Naturaal Resources Manager,CCity of Eugenne <br />DATE: Novembeer 29, 2012 <br />SUBJECT: No-cost tiime extensioon to NOAAA grant <br />This is a reequest for a nno-cost time extension fofor the grant described beelow. <br />1.Namme of the reecipient: <br /> Citty of Eugenee <br />2.Prooject name: RecoveryAAct: <br /> Restorinng off-channnel habitat foor anadromoous <br />spring Chinnook salmonn at Delta Poonds, Eugenee, Oregon <br />3.Awward numbeer: <br />NA09NMMF4630300 <br />4.Lenngth of timee of the exteension with start dates aand end dattes of the <br />extension: <br /> Length of rrequested exttension is 3 mmonths. Exttension start date is Januuary <br />1, 2013. Exxtension endd date is Marrch 31, 2013. <br />5.Expplanation off why the wwork was nott completedd during thee proposed <br />performannce period: <br />The City is wworking harrd to compleete the work by the originnal <br />end date off 12/31/20122. The primaary challengee in meeting this deadlinne is that ourr <br />contractorss are unable to get plant mmaterial in ttime to compplete the plannting by the end <br />of the year. The bare rooot plant maaterial will noot be availabble until Januuary 2013. In <br />addition,wweather or othher site condditions such as river leveels are not coonsistently <br />suitable forr planting duuring the winnter and plannting will neeed to be donne as the sitee <br />conditionsallow. We aare also initiaating some wwater qualityy sampling ffor the final FFish <br />Passage Feeasibility Stuudy at the Caanoe Canal aand are uncertain that wee can compleete <br />that work dduring the shhort time remmaining undeer the grant. Extendingtthe end date to <br />March 31 ggives us morre flexibilityy to work aroound some of these challlenges and <br />accomplishh these impoortant tasks. <br />6.Desscription offthe remainning work too be accompplished duriing the <br />extensionpperiod: <br /> Thee remaining wwork to be aaccomplishedd during the extensionpperiod <br />is describedd below. <br />Willow cuttting planting along Deltta Ponds andd Heron Slouugh. The Citty of Eugenee has <br />recently coontracted witth a local commpany to plaant 8,000 wiillow cuttinggs along the <br />banks at Delta Ponds aand Heron Sllough with some of the ffunding that was identifiied <br />through cost savings onn other contrracts. The coontract speciifications reqquire that thee <br />cuttings bee planted at thhe water’s eedge at an eleevation that will result inn the cuttinggs <br />being in coontact with thhe water table during summmer waterr levels. In a normal plannting <br />season thiss is feasible bbecause if wwater levels aare too high dduring the planting workk <br />there is usuually enoughh flexibility iin the contraact to hold offf on the plannting for a wweek <br />1 <br /> <br />