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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5. COST-SHARING FOR SUBSEQUENT FISCAL YEARS

5.1 The Parties are committed, through federal and nOflfederal processes, to
seek their respective shares of funding for the Program in future years, subject to appropriations,
with a goal of providing at least $4.5, million in the aggregate for Program development and
interim conservation measures. To this end, in addition to the other specific actions described
in this Agreement, each Party shall take all lawful steps necessary to seek additional funding
to be made available to the Program in subsequent fiscal years. The Department of the Interior
shall seek only non-reimbursable funding for the Program in subsequent fiscal years.
5.2 The Parties shall support within the Administration Reclamation's fiscal
year 1997 budget request in the Lower Colorado Endangered Species Conservation and
Recovery budget line item in the amount of $2.9 million, including reservation of at least
$600,000 for its Endangered Species Conservation activities in support of the Program.
5.3 The Parties shall work cooperatively to develop an appropriate
arrangement for the management of funds committed pursuant to this Agreement.
5.4 On or before September 30, 1996. and thereafter as necessary, the relevant
bureaus and services of the Department shall enter into any agreements required to carry out
the provisions and purposes of this Agreement.

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