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I I I I I I ,I II I I I I, 1\ I I II I I II 39 5.0 PROCEDURES AND ORGANIZATION 5.1 COMMITTEES The Coordination, Biology, and Navajo Dam Operating Committees will be established pursuant to Sections 2 and 4 of the Endangered Species Act, as well as other applicable laws to carry out this Implementation Program. 5.1.1 Coordination Committee The Participants in this Implementation Program shall each be entitled to voting membership on the Coordination Committee. The purpose of the Coordination Committee is to assure that the goals of this Implementation Program are achieved in a timely manner. To effect this coordination responsibility, the following entities will have the right to have one representative on the Coordination Committee (multiple representatives of a single agency will share the single vote allotted to each agency) : Bureau of Reclamation Bureau of Indian Affairs Fish and Wildlife Service (Region 2) Fish and wildlife Service (Region 6) Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe Southern Ute Indian Tribe Jicarilla Apache Indian Tribe Navajo Nation State of New Mexico State of Colorado State of Utah Water Development Interests Conservationists Respectively, one representative from each of the latter two groups, the water development interests as a collective group and the conservationists as a collective group, shall be selected by those groups to serve on the Coordination Committee. Water development interests in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico, shall have one representative and conservation organizations with offices in Colorado, Utah, or New Mexico shall have one representative. Should a federal agency not listed above wish to participate in this Implementation Program in compliance with the requirements of section 7(a) (1) of the Endangered Species Act, it may submit its request for such participation to the Coordination Committee for approval. Such approval will be based on the satisfaction by the federal agency of the following criteria: