Stage 1: System Overview

• Top of system to the bottom (watershed, reservoirs, hydropower facilities, transport systems, end-user delivery)
• Common understanding of how the system works

 Stage 2: Water Rights Overview

• Review of Water Rights Currently Held
• Locations
• Year of Seniority
• Current Usage

Stage 3: Watersheds

• Review of watershed management
• Cultural awareness and sensitivity

Stage 4: Risk

• Presentation of risk analysis and mitigation efforts presentation relating to three organizational considerations: Operational, Regulatory and Environmental

Stage 5: Strategic Planning

• Leverage work previously completed
• Can be revisited during process
• Mission
• Vision
• Strategic priorities
• Used as framework for Plan for Water process
• Used to guide policy decisions
• Used to guide annual budget

Stage 6: Basis for Plan Water

• Planning horizon
• Intended outcome refinement
• Frequency of Plan update
• How Plan is used
• Responsibility for Plan

Stage 7: Hydrology and Hydrography

• Leverage existing work
• Drought scenarios
• Consider climate change
• Consider Impacts of watershed health
• Science and data driven

Stage 8: Demand

• Model future demand for planning horizon
• Requires new model
• Considers land use
• Considers end-user use changes
• Considers Regulatory Flows - FERC

Stage 9: Supply Needs

• Supply Needs
• Short Term
• Long Term
• Consistent with Planning Horizon

Stage 10: Strategy Options

• Operations (system and end users)
• Restoration (system and watershed)
• Management (ongoing adaptive management of watershed)
• Programs (capital)

Stage 11: Evaluate Strategies

• Develop evaluation criteria consistent with Board-determined mission, vision, and strategic priorities
• Possible consideration (environmental, cost, technical feasibility, constructability risk, political)