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<br />and Parks Commission (NGPC) lias also endorsed the Principles of Agreement 4 The <br />AIP adopts the EA Document by reference. The AIP is dependent upon and intended <br />to supplement the Cooperative Agreement and anticipated Program. It was also made <br />dependent on FWS concluding in its Biological Opinion that the AIP, in conjunction <br />? <br />with the Cooperative Agreement and Proposed Program, comprises a reasonable and <br />prudent alternative which avoids the likelihood of jeopardy to threatened or endangered <br />0 species or adverse modification of whooping crane critical habitat. FWS' Biological <br />Opinion reached that conclusion,5 and the AIP was filed at FERC in July 1997, as <br />Appendix B to the Biological Opinion. <br />E. Agreement on All Issues. The Agreement on All Issues Reached in <br />FERC Trial Staff Settlement Meetings (AAI) modifies and supplements the AIP and <br />brings into agreement all of the parties to this Settlement. The AAI adopts the AIP <br />except as provisions of the AIP are directly modified by provisions in the AAI. The <br />AAI was filed with FERC on January 15, 1998. It has been endorsed by the Governor. <br />of Nebraska and by NGPC.6 <br />4/ Letter to Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District, et ai. from R. <br />Amack, Director, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (August 29, 1997) <br />(Attachment F-3). <br />? 5/ FWS, Biological Opinion on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's <br />Preferred Alternative for the Kingsley Dam Project (Project No. 1417) and North <br />? Platte/Keystone Dam Project (Project No. 1835), 6-9 (July 1997). - <br />6/ Letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from Governor Ben Nelson <br />? (May 11, 1998) (Attachment F-1); letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from <br />(continued...) <br />6