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<br />6-1 <br /> <br />6.0 DISCUSSION <br /> <br />6.1 Permit Deficiencies <br />The following is a discussion of permit deficiencies noted in FERC <br />Project 4515 in response to the Jacobson Hydro No.1 License Application <br />dated October 1983. These deficiencies are cited and briefly discussed in <br />Exhibit E of the FERC response and are presented in subsection 1.1 of this <br />document. <br /> <br />6.1.1 Threatened and Endangered Species ~ The Project Area. <br />No threatened or endangered fish species were found in the JH-1 project <br />area. This includes species listed as threatened, endangered, candidate, or <br />proposed by the U.S. Department of Interior or the Colorado Wildlife <br />Commission. <br />Field studies were conducted in the 5.4-mile reach of the Upper <br />Colorado River immediately above the project site. Fish sample methods were <br />used to insure capture of all sizes of fishes for all species present, <br />including adults, juveniles, young-of-the-year, and larvae. The species <br />list and relative composition of fishes were nearly identical to those <br />compiled in other fishery surveys of this region of the Upper Colorado <br />River. <br />The absence of threatened and endangered fishes from this and other <br />recent surveys of the area does not necessarily mean that the species do not <br />occur in the JH-1 project area. The probability of their occurrence in this <br />area, however, is low because of the presence of two mainstem dams that are <br />expected to impede movement into the area, marginally cool water <br />temperatures for spawning, and the absence of backwaters for rearing of <br />young. <br />