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2) Habitat development including restoring floodplain/wetland habitats and constructing fish passageways around dams and other barriers in the river. 3) Native fish propagation and genetic management involving establishing facilities to hold adult broodstock to prevent extinction of these rare fish and maintain their genetic resources; develop growout ponds; conduct research to improve survival of endangered fish raised in captivity and stocked in the wild; and support appropriate stocking and reintroduction efforts. 4) Nonnative species and sportfishing management entailing reducing detrimental nonnative fish species in habitat considered "critical" to endangered fish. This also involves educating and distributing information to anglers to reduce accidental capture of endangered fish. 5) Research, monitoring and data management providing information about what these fish need to survive, grow, and reproduce in the wild. Efforts include compiling data on numbers, sizes, and locations of endangered fish; monitoring endangered fish population trends; and making river flow recommendations. The Recovery Program has identified a need to restore endangered fish access to critical habitat upstream of the Price-Stubb Diversion Dam to assist in making sufficient progress toward establishing self-sustaining populations of the endangered fishes. The purpose of the fish passage is to further recovery of the Colorado River endangered fishes. The Recovery Program constructed a fish passage approximately 3 miles downstream of the Price-Stubb Diversion Dam at the Grand Valley Irrigation Company Diversion Dam in 1998 and constructed a fish passage approximately 5.3 miles upstream of the Price-Stubb Diversion Dam at the Grand Valley Project Diversion Dam in 2004. The Price-Stubb fish passage is the final piece needed to restore endangered fish access to connect designated critical habitat upstream of the three dams with designated critical habitat downstream to Lake Powell in Utah. Plans for providing fish passage at the Price-Stubb Diversion Dam have been under development for many years. Initially, the primary participants in the planning process were the Recovery Program agencies and water users. Since 1993, Reclamation staff have formally and informally discussed with water users and land owners, the need to provide fish passage and associated concerns at the Price-Stubb Diversion Dam. Environmental Assessment A draft Environmental Assessment was distributed for public comment on April 30, 1999. The 1999 Draft EA evaluated fish passage alternatives including partial removal of the dam and constructing a fish ladder around the dam. Reclamation identified dam removal as the preferred alternative. Reclamation received 22 comments on the draft EA. In an October 1999 newsletter which provided an update on the Upper Colorado River fish passages, Reclamation announced it was waiting for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision on the Jacobson Hydro No. 1 Project amended license application before resuming planning for fish passage at the Price-Stubb