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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STEP 5 - REQUEST OF EXTENSION OF TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON DRAFT BIOLOGICAL
OPINION. (Estimated date: November 30, 1996). Reclamation will request a 120-
day extension to allow for public review and comment of t;he Draft BO.
Reclamation will publish a notice in the Federal Registel~ and issue a news
release announcing the availability of the Draft BO for comment.

STEP 6 _ PUBLIC COMMENT ON DRAFT BIOLOGICAL OPINION. (Estimated date for close
of comment period: January 15, 1997). The Draft BO will be made available for
comment for 45 days, with directions that comments must be submitted to
Reclamation. Reclamation will consider comments pertaining to any errors ,.)j
fact in the biological data or the proposed action and whether (1) any
proposed RPA's and/or RPM's avoid the likelihood of jeopardy and adverse
modification of critical habitat and/or reduce incidental take, (2) any
proposed RPA's and/or RPM's can be implemented in a manner consistent with the
intended purpose of the action, (3) any proposed RPA's and/or RPM's can be
implemented in a manner consistent with the scope of the agency's legal
authority and jurisdiction, and (4) any proposed RPA's and/or RPM's are
economically and technologically feasible.

STEP 7 - RESPONSE TO COMMENT ON DRAFT BIOLOGICAL O.PINION. (Estimated date:
March 1, 1997). Reclamation will review comments on the Draft BO and decide
which constitute new or significant information. It will be Reclamation's
responsibility to decide if comments are relevant to consultation, in terms of
the action, findings, and recommendations in the Draft BO, and to forward to
FWS any amendments to the proposed action and/or requests for changes in RPA's
and/or RPM's. Reclamation will respond to letters of comment received on the
Draft BO.

STEP 8 - FWS PROVIDES FINAL BIOLOGICAL OPINION TO RECLAMATION. (Estimated
date: April 15, 1997). FWS will consider Reclamation's comments and requests
in developing a final BO.

STEP 9 - RECLAMATION'S RESPONSE TO THE FINAL BIOLOGICAL OPINION. (Estimated
date: May 15, 1997). . A letter will be sent by Reclamation to the FWS wL'")
indicates its plans in light of the Final BO.

STEP 10 - PUBLIC COMMENTS AND THE LONG-TERM CONSERVATION PROGRAM.
comments submitted by the public for the Draft BA and the Draft BO
considered during the scoping process for development of the Lower
River Multi-species Conservation Program.

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