WSP12636

• File Number: 8282.300
• Description: Colorado River Operations and Accounting - Lower Basin Administrative Procedures
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/1/1996
• Author: DOI-BOR
• Title: Description and Assessment of Operations-Maintenance and Sensitive Species of the Lower Colorado River - Volume II - Appendices-Etc - 08-01-96
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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ATTORNEY
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costs. The Department of the Interior shall expend only non-reimbursable funds for the
Program.

2.4 By this Agreement, the Parties desire to establish funding commitments
and arrangements and provide for certain other actions in suppurt of the Program during those
fiscal years.
IN CONSIDERATION of the above recitals and the mutual covenants herein contained,
the Parties hereto agree as follows:
3. EFFECTIVE DATE

This Agreement shall become effective on the effective date of an agreement,
approved by the respective governing authorities of, and entered into on or before September
30, 1996, among, the entities representing the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada, by
which those states agree to collectively fund 50 percent of the costs of developing the Program
and implementing certain interim conservation measures during fiscal years 1996 through 1999,
and to otherwise carry out the applicable provisions and purposes of this Agreement.
4. COST-SHARING FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996
4.1 For fiscal year 1996, the Bureau of Reclamation ("Reclamation") shall
reserve for the Program 300 thousand dollars ($300,000) for endangered species conservation
activities to be disbursed for the following specific purposes as follows:
4.1.1 Two-hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the development of
the Program, if the nonfederal entities provide a 2: 1 match of 400 thousand dollars ($400,000).
4.1.2 One-hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for interim conservation
measures that support the purposes of the Program.
4.2 For fiscal year 1996, the Fish and Wildlife Service shall reserve 100
thousand dollars ($100,000) for certain interim conservation measures that support the purposes
of the Program.
4.3 This combined federal an"d nonfederal funding of 800 thousand dollars
($800,000) for fiscal year 1996 will initiate the first year of work under the Program. The
federal share of such funding is non-reimbursable.

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