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? <br />? <br />? <br />? <br />? <br />? <br />? <br />Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Preferred Alternative for the Kingsley Dam <br />Project (Project No. 1417) and North Platte/Keystone Dam Project (Project No. 1835). <br />Most of the parties to this Settlement are not signatories to the Cooperative Agreement, <br />as the agreement is structured as an agreement among four sovereigns. Under the AAI, <br />however, the parties have all agreed to participate in the Cooperative Agreement:2 <br />B. Platte River Recoverv Implementation Program. The Cooperative <br />Agreement put forward a Proposed Platte River Recovery Implementation Program <br />Alternative. The Proposed Program, if adopted, will be a basin-wide program among <br />the three states and DOI intended to: implement certain aspects of the FWS's recovery <br />plans for certain target species (whooping cranes, interior least terns, piging plovers <br />and pallid sturgeon) in order to secure defined benefits for those species and their <br />associated habitats, as defined in the Cooperative Agreement, so as to assist in their <br />conservation and recovery; serve as the reasonable and prudent alternative to the effects <br />of water-related activities in the Platte River Basin that, in the absence of such a <br />Program, could be found by DOI and federal action agencies to be likely to jeopardize <br />the continued existence of target species or adversely modify designated critical habitat; <br />and help prevent the need to list more basin-associated species pursuant to the ESA. <br />The Proposed Program was filed at FERC in July 1997, as Attachment III to the <br />Cooperative Agreement (Appendix A to DOI's Biological Opinion). The Proposed <br />?' AAI, Effects on Litigation, section B. <br />4