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<br />doing more, is neither likely to occur or to be <br /> <br />sufficient. Ideas have emerged involving reducing <br />diversions in the Grand Valley in relation to the <br />salinity program or in connection with a pumpback <br />below Grand Junction. <br /> <br />4. Completion of Section 7 consultation on Flaming <br />Gorge and initiation and completion on Aspinall are <br /> <br />essential. <br /> <br />5. Restoring and making additional habitats available; <br />carrying out research; hatchery program are all <br />required to be carried forwara. <br /> <br />C. Wetlands protection must be turned into an affirmative <br />protection program at state level; wetland regulation by <br /> <br />federal programs is necessarily reactive. CUrrent law <br /> <br />will leave federal regulators in the position of permit <br /> <br />by permit incremental review <br /> <br />not likely to produce <br /> <br />favorable permits. The state should move forward with an <br />acti ve program of: <br />1. classification and inventory of wetland communitie~ <br />2. identifyi~g' and quantifying specific wetland <br /> <br />functions and ecological roles <br /> <br />3. identifying hydrologic requirements of those high <br /> <br />priority wetlands <br /> <br />4. a program of acquisition and voluntary protection <br /> <br />of high priority wetlands <br /> <br />7 <br />