8020

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8020
• Author: Horak, G. C.
• Title: Proceedings of the Symposium on Mitigating Developmental Impacts on Fish and Wildlife.
• USFW Year: 1979.
• USFW - Doc Type: March 1979.
• Copyright Material: NO

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6. Ensure that land and waters for fish and wildlife are acquired in
phase with other project features
7. Require that the public be given every appropriate opportunity for
participation in planning
8. Authorize the institution of citizen suits alleging violation of
the Act or regulations orders, or permits issued pursuant tq the Act.
Points 1 and 2 involve strengthening of the formulation process; the bargain-
ing process would be improved through points 3 and 4; the implementation of
measures is enhanced by points Sand 6; and points 7 and 8 involve the total
process.
The formulation process needs to be strengthened by requiring that
written reports of fish and wildlife agencies clearly specify the measures
and features recommended for fish and wildlife agencies conservation and
development, the lands to be utilized or acquired for such purposes, the
results expected, the damage to fish and wildlife attributable to the pro-
ject, and the measures proposed for preventing, mitigating, and compensating
for such damages.. The findings have shown that measures were sometimes re-
quested in qual itative terms. For example. requests for flow f1 uctuation
control for many projects left quantities of fluctuation open-ended by ex-
pressions such as "gradual changes.1I IIfluctuations be kept to a minimum," or
IIregulated evacuation." Requests of this nature were usually accepted and
implemented because no specific action is required. At Palisades Dam, Idaho.
the Fish and Wildlife Service originally requested that large changes in the
volume of release be made gradually. This vague recommendation has been re-
fined over the years to an annual negotiated release schedule to protect water-
fowl production on the basis of post-construction waterfowl studies by Idaho
.Department of Fish and Game.
Also. the effect on the biota with and without the measure and/or project
are fOr the most part expressed in general terms. For instance, fish and

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