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<br /> <br />STATE OF UTAH' <br /> <br />.JON M. HUNTSMAN, .JR. <br />GOVERNOR <br /> <br />OFFICE OF THe: GOVERNOR <br />SALT LAK!: CI'T''t'. UTAH <br />e4114-2220 <br /> <br />GARY R. HERBERT <br />Lli:UTEN4NT GOVERNOR <br /> <br />March 7, 2005 <br /> <br />The Honorable Pete V. Domenici, Chainnan <br />The Honorable Hany Reid, Ranking Member <br />Energy and Water Development Subcommittee <br />Committee on Appropriations <br />United States Senate <br />127 Dirksen Senate Office Building <br />Washington. D.C. 20510 <br /> <br />Dear Chainnan Domenici and Senator Reid; <br /> <br />I write to request your support for an appropriation in fiscal year 2006 of $2,529.000 to <br />the Bureau of Reclamation within the budget line item entitled ''Endangered Species Recovery <br />Implementation PJ:Ogramn for the Upper ColOIado Region. The President's recommended budget <br />for FY 2006 includes th:is line-item amOunt The funding designation we seek is as follows; <br />$1,401,000 for construction activities for the Upper Colorado Rivet' Endangered Fish Recovery <br />Program; $572.000 for the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program and <br />$556,000 for Fish and Wildlife Management and Development <br /> <br />These highly successful, cooperative programs are ongoing partnerships among the states <br />ofUt~ Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, Indian tribes, federal agencies and water, <br />power and environmental interests. The programs' objectives are to recover endangered fish <br />species while water use and development proceeds in compliance with the Endangered Species <br />Act These recovery program,s have become national models for collaboratively working to <br />recover endangered species while addressing water needs to support growing western <br />communities in the Upper. Colorado River Basin region of the Intermountain West. Since 1988, <br />these programs have facilitated ESA Section 7 consultation (without litigation) for over 800 <br />federal, tribal, state :md privately managed water projects depleting approximately 2.5 million <br />acre-feet of water per year. <br /> <br />The requested FY 2006 appropriation will allow the Upper Colorado River Endangered <br />Fish Program to proceed with construction of additional fish passage stmctures on the Green and <br />Colorado rivers to provide access to historic habitat upstream of existing diversion dams. The <br />requested funding fOr the San Juan River Recovery Program will be used for contracts fOT <br />construction and cooperative agreements with the state of New Mexico to provide and protect <br />instream flows, fish ladders, flooded bottom land restoration, propagation facilities, stocking <br />efforts, nonnative and sportfish management activities. <br />