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Page 1 <br />Contract No. OS-WC-40-420 <br />RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM <br />UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN <br />AGREEMENT AMONG THE <br />UI~~ITED STATES OF AIVlERICA, DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR <br />BL~TREALT OF RECLAR~IAI'ION and FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, <br />AND <br />THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATIOI~T DISTRICT <br />CONCER'~'IlVG ELKHEAD RESERVOIR ENLARGEMENT <br />TO <br />FACILITATE RECOVERY OF ENDANGERED FISH SPECIES IN THE <br />YAMPA RIVER BASIN <br />This RESERVOIR EI~TI.ARGE_MENT AGREEMENT made this 17~' day of February <br />~~ ~ 4, pursuant to the Act to Authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to Provide Cost Sharing for <br />the Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan <br />River Basins, (October 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1602, Public Law 106-392 ), and acts amendatory <br />thereof or supplementary thereto, between the UNITED STATES OF AlVlERICA, <br />DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ("Reclamation") and the <br />FISH A'~~ `~,'ILDLIFE SERVICE ("Service"), both acting through the Secretary of Interior, and <br />the COLORADO RIVER WATER COI~TSERVATION DISTRICT, acting by and through its <br />Colorado River ~~Vater Projects Enterprise ("River District") created pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37- <br />45.1-101 and 37-46-101, et seq. <br />`~'IT~TESSETH; that: <br />1. `?~rHEREAS, the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species <br />in the Upper Colorado River Basin ("Recovery Program") dated September 29, 1987 was <br />implemented by a Cooperative Agreement signed in January of 1988 by the Secretary of the <br />Department of the Interior, the Governors of the States of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming and the <br />Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration. The Recovery Program is a coalition <br />of agencies and organizations. The goal of the Recovery Program is to recover four species of <br />endangered fish «:-hile allo~~ving water development to proceed consistent with state v~~ater law <br />and in compliance v~rith the Federal Endangered Species Act ("ESA") in the Upper Basin states <br />of Colorado; Utah, and Wyoming; and <br />2. ~~IEREAS, the River District is a political subdivision of the State of Colorado <br />created and existing pursuant to its Organic Act, C.R.S. §§ 37-46-101, et seq., and other <br />I:'?004:Client`==.Ricer Districr? 1-EIlchead-1028`.Agreements~Resenoir Enlargement Agreement frnal.wpd <br />March 26, 200 <br />EXHIBIT <br />w <br />a <br />s <br />