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<br />3 <br /> <br />2.3 Programs in the Colorado River Basin that Contribute to Humpback Chub <br />Conservation <br /> <br />The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (GCDAMP). The GCDAMP <br />is a conservation program that was established by the Secretary of the Interior in 1996 <br />following the Record of Decision on the Environmental Impact Statement assessing <br />operation of Glen Canyon Dam (U.S. Department of the Interior 1995). The AMWG is <br />Federal Advisory committee that provides recommendations to the Secretary of the <br />Interior regarding operation of Glen Canyon Dam and other measures to protect and/or <br />enhance the Colorado River Ecosystem through Grand Canyon (i.e. mainstem Colorado <br />River and its tributaries from Glen Canyon Dam downstream to Lake Mead National <br />Recreation Area). The GCDAMP consists of a diverse group of stakeholders, including <br />State and Federal agencies, water users, energy distributors, environmental groups, <br />recreation interests, and American Indian tribes, that directs coordinated scientific studies <br />conducted by the GCMRC of the U.S. Geological Survey. The GCDAMP addresses <br />elements of the EIS on the operation of Glen Canyon Dam as well as the reasonable and <br />prudent alternatives contained in a jeopardy biological opinion for the humpback chub <br />and razorback sucker in Grand Canyon. This adaptive management program takes <br />findings of the GCMRC and a group of Science Advisors as information for dam <br />reoperations and conservation of the endangered fishes. <br /> <br />Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (UCRRP): The <br />UCRRP is a recovery program that was initiated under a Cooperative Agreement signed <br />by the Secretary of the Interior on January 22, 1988, as a coordinated effort of State and <br />Federal agencies, water users, energy distributors, and environmental groups to recover <br />four endangered fishes in the upper basin downstream to Glen Canyon Dam, excluding <br />the San Juan River (U.S. Department of the Interior 1987; Wydoski and Hamill 1991; <br />Evans 1993). It functions under the general principles of adaptive management and <br />consists of seven program elements, including instream flow protection; habitat <br />restoration; reduction of nonnative fish and sportfish impacts; propagation and genetics <br />management, research, monitoring, and data management; infonnation and education; <br />and program management. As stated in the governing document of the UCRRP (U.S. <br />Department of the Interior 1987), the program goal is to recover the endangered fishes <br />while allowing water development to proceed in compliance with State and Federal laws, <br />including the Endangered Species Act (ESA), State water laws, interstate compacts, and <br />Federal trust responsibilities to Native American tribes. Funding for the UCRRP will <br />continue through 2011 under legislation passed in October 2000 (P.L 106-392); <br />Congress will review the U CRRP to determine iffunding should be authorized beyond <br />2011. <br /> <br />Recovery Implementation Plan Scientific Workgronp (RIPSWG): In 1999, the U.S. <br />Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Region 2, convened a group of biologists, formally <br />named the Scientific Workgroup, to develop a Recovery Implementation Plan for the <br />native fishes of the Lower Colorado River Basin from Glen Canyon Dam to the Gulf of <br />California (Mexico). Primary emphasis was to be placed on recovery of bony tail, <br />humpback chub, Colorado pikeminnow, and razorback sucker. The RIPSWG met <br /> <br />E9SOo <br />