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<br />C. development and implementation of certain watct:.management, conservation and <br />supply measures. as set forth in Attachment I, "Milestones for the Cooperative <br />Agreement," and in Attachment n, "Water Conservation/Supply ComponeDt"; <br /> <br />D. development of a basin-wide program ("Program") to be implemerited following <br />evaluation of the Proposed Alternative, as defined in Paragraph m and as. set forth in <br />Attac~ m, aDd a range of reasonable alternatives in compliance with the National <br />EnviroDlDCDlal Policy Act ("NEPAW), 42 U.S.C. 4331.cucq., and the ESA, the intent <br />of which is to: . (1) secure defined benefits for ,the target species aDd their associated <br />habitats to assist in their conservation and recovery tbrough a basin-wide cooperative <br />approach that can be agreed to by the three.states and the Department of the Interior <br />e'lDOI"); (2) serve as the reasonable and prudent alternative to offset the effects of <br />existing and new water related activities in the Platte River Basin that, in the absence of <br />such a Program, would be fOUDd by FWS to be likely to jeopardize the conrim1ed <br />existence of the target species or adversely modify desipated critical habitat; (3) help <br />prevent the Deed to list more basin associated species pursuant to the ESA; and (4) <br />mitigate new ~ related activities in a state in a nlfllmfl!r that will not increase the <br />mitigation responsibilities of other signatory states,withotbe iDtent that mitigation will <br />be implemented in the state where the activity occurs to the. exteD1 described in <br />Attac"m~ m, AppeDdix A; and <br /> <br />2 For purposes of this Cooperative Agreement and. its atcac~,tbe term Wwater <br />related activities II means activities and aspects .of activities which:. " (1) are . subject to section <br />7(a)(2) of the ESA; (2) occur in the Platte River Basin upstream of the confluence of the Loup <br />. River with the Platte River; aDd (3) may affect Platte River flow quantity or timing, including, <br />but not limited to, water diversion, storage and use activities. Those cbaDges resulting from <br />land use activities which affect flow quantity and rimi~g wm be considered impacts of a Wwater <br />related activity... MlSlnges in temperature and sediment transport will be considered impacts of <br />a "water'related activity" to the extent that such changes are caused by activities affecting flow <br />quantity or riming. WWater related activities" do not include those components of land use <br />activities or discharges of pollutants that do not affect flow quantity or timing. wNew water <br />related activitiesw are new surface. water or hydrologically connected ground water activities, <br />including both new projects and expansion of existing projects, both.those subject to and not <br />subject to section 7(a)(2) of the ESA, which may affect the quantity or timing of water <br />reaching the "associated habitats" and which are implemented after the effective date of this <br />Agreement. <br /> <br />2 <br />