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<br />.., <br /> <br />fL-.g. ~ <br /> <br /> <br />United States Department of the Interior <br /> <br />FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE <br />Mountain-Prairie Region <br /> <br />IN REPL.YREFER TO: <br /> <br />MAILING ADDRESS: <br />Post Office Box 25486 <br />Denver Federal Center <br />Denver, Colorado 80225 <br /> <br />ES/Grand Junction-6-CO-95-F-009 <br />Rivers-UCR-Ruedi Reservoir releases <br />COIKSINEIUT <br /> <br />STREET LOCATION: <br />134 Union Blvd. <br />Lakewood, Colorado 80228 <br /> <br /><tAN 6 1999 <br /> <br />Memorandum <br /> <br />To: Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, Great Plains Region, Billings, Montana <br />(Attention: Area Manager--Loveland, Colorado) <br /> <br />~/"~, .,", .-.'":J",,:.:. <br />From:. 'f " :'.' Regional Director, Region 6, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, Colorado <br /> <br />Subject: <br /> <br />Final Amendment to the Biological Opinion for Round II Water Sale from Ruedi <br />Reservoir <br /> <br />This memorandum constitutes an amendment to the May 26, 1995, biological opinion for Round <br />II Water Sales from Ruedi Reservoir. This amendment was prepared in response to your June 3, <br />memorandum regarding section 7 consultation for the continuance ofRuedi Round II water sales <br />and November 19, 1998, memorandum transmitting you.r comments on our September 11, 1998, <br />. - - - - 'Otift-amendment. Your memorandum of July 1997 states that Bureau of Reclamanim'has' been ' <br />unable to implement all the elements of the reasonable and prudent alternative presented in the <br />May 26, 1995, biological opinion on the subject project. Reclamation has been unable to <br />implement element 2 of the alternatives which requires an interim agreement between <br />Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Colorado Water Conservation Board to make the <br />remaining uncommitted yield (21,650 acre-feet) ofRuedi Reservoir available for release and <br />delivery through the IS-Mile Reach, for the benefit of the Colorado River endangered fishes. <br />Therefore, in February 1997, the Service asked Reclamation to refrain from issuing further Round <br />II water contracts. The Service understands that Reclamation currently has requests for 6,135 af <br />of water from Ruedi Reservoir under Round II Water Sales. <br /> <br />As an amendment to the 1995 biological opinion, the Service has developed the following <br />reasonable and prudent alternative and reinitiation language to replace language presented in the <br />1995 opinion. <br />