Environmental Quality Council

Agency Oversight (see also Staff and Agency Reports)

Compliance and Enforcement Reports

• Environmental Enforcement and Compliance, FY 2008-FY 2009, DEQ
  
• Compliance and enforcement report, DNRC
• Compliance and enforcement report, Department of Agriculture
  

Distressed Wood Products Revolving Loan Program

• HB 674 and HB 669 summary
  

DNRC Homesite/Cabin Leasing Program

• DNRC cabinsite lease payment document
  
• Legal opinion on state authority re conservation easements
  
• Legal opinion on Seven-Up Pete lease
  
• Legal opinion on trust land funding
  
• Legal opinion on school board authority to transfer or sell land
  
• Legal opinion on fiduciary responsibility of state re school trust lands
• Evaluation of DNRC cabin site leasing proposal, Barb Smith, LFC
  

Fiscal Issues

• Fiscal Considerations for Natural Resource Agencies, Barb Smith, LFD
  

Grizzly Bear Monitoring

• Analysis of Bear Scat Monitoring, Agency Data, and Literature, Montanore Project, July 2010
  
• Monitoring Grizzly Populations in Western Montana, FWP, July 2010
  

HB 22 (2005): Adjudication Status

• Basin location and adjudication status, May 2009
  
• Basin location and adjudication status, September 2009
  
• Basin location and adjudication status, January 2010
  
• Basin location and adjudication status, March 2010
  
• Basin location and adjudication status, May 2010
  
• Basin location and adjudication status, July 2010
  
• Basin location and adjudication status, September 2010
  

Land Banking

• Land banking report, DNRC
  

Mineral Permitting

• Memo on the status of coal, hard rock, and oil and gas permits in Montana
  

Navigable Rivers

• Legal opinion on the term navigable waters
  
• Navigable rivers survey
  
• Updated legal memo on navigability
  
• LC 8002 - Use of River Beds
  
• Public comment on LC 8002
  

Numeric Nutrient Standards

• Nutrient criteria development update, DEQ

Petroleum Tank Release Fund

• Petroleum Tank Release Fund Status Report, September 2009
  
• Petroleum Tank Release Fund Status Report, January 2010
  
• The Law of Groundwater Mixing Zones in Montana, Lee Bruner, May 2010
  
• Mixing Zones, Allowing Nature to Assist with Cleanup, Roger Noble, May 2010
  
• Risk Based Corrective Action, Mike Trombetta, DEQ, May 2010
  
• LC 7010 - Petroleum Tank Release Mixing Zone
  

Rule Review

• Rule review crib sheet
          Attachment 1 (11" by 17")
  
• EQC administrative rulemaking authority and current rules
  
• CECRA rulemaking memo (December 2009)
  
• CECRA rulemaking memo (May 2010)
  
• EQC letter recommending stakeholder group for DEQ CECRA rulemaking
  
• DEQ letter about CECRA rulemaking public notice
  
• Director Opper letter to Chair Vincent about CECRA rulemaking
• DEQ letter about CECRA priority list
  
• CECRA rulemaking Economic Impact Statement
  
• EQC letter of objection to greenhouse gas rulemaking
  
• BER response to EQC letter about greenhouse gas rulemaking
  
• Agency rulemaking review summary, March 2010
• Agency rulemaking review summary, May 2010
• Agency rulemaking review summary, July 2010
  
• Agency rulemaking review summary, September 2010
  

Stream Access

• Stream access work document, FWP
  

Whitmore Ravine

• Whitmore Ravine, Cascade County Conservation District, May 2010

Wolf Management

• Wolf Documents Memo
  
• Echinococcus Fact Sheet FWP
  
• Echinococcus Granulosus in Wolves, Krysten Schuler, Wildlife Ecologist, USGS National Wildlife Health Center, Wisconsin
  
• Alaska epidemiology bulletin
  
• A Field Guide to Common Wildlife Diseases and Parasites in Alaska
  
• Idaho echinococcus granulosus factsheet
  
• Echinococcus Granulosus in Wolves in Idaho, Mark L. Drew, Wildlife Veterinarian, Idaho Department of Fish and Game
  
• Monitoring and Assessment of Wolf-Ungulate Interactions and Population Trends within the Greater Yellowstone Area, Southwestern Montana, and Montana Statewide, Final Report 2009, Kenneth L. Hamlin and Julie A. Cunningham, FWP
  
• Montana wolf hunt brochure
  
• FWP Wolf Presentations, March 5, 2010
     — Counting Wolves in Montana
     — Wolf impacts on ungulates
     — Echinococcus granulosa
     — Wolf Funding
     — New wolf depredation response protocol
     — Projected wolf packs and breeding pairs at year end with full pack removal
  
• Echinococcus granulosus, May 7, 2010
     — FWP Fact Sheet, revised
     — Diseases You Can Get From Wildlife -- Hydatid Disease, British Columbia Ministry of Environment
     — Memo to EQC on hydatid disease, Dr. Valerius Geist