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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substantially. However, it would be a mistake to explain every project in
terms of third party influence.
It is important to note that third party action has provided limited
monitoring and enforcement of agreed-to fish and wildlife measures. These
positive aspects must be institutionalized in order to be truly effective
for two reasons. First, if these actions are institutionalized, they would
apply to all projects rather than having a random application. Second, the
character of the bureaucracy is such that it responds to requirements that
are legally specified. The data indicate that the guidelines set up by the
current legislation are not sufficient to enlist the bureaucracy to ensure
implementation of fish and wildlife measures.
lands and waters for fish and wildlife need to be acquired in phase
with other project features. Research has shown that lags in the acquisition
of project lands for fish and wildlife purposes can be particularly damaging
because of two factors. First, inflation erodes the purchasing power of funds
allocated to land acquisition and in the end the targeted amount of land can-
not be acquired. The second factor is partly a matter of surmise, the longer
land acquisition is postponed, or the further down the scale of priorities the
acquisition of fish and wildlife lands is placed, the greater will be the
difficulties associated with finding willing sellers, particularly in the
vicinity of the project, and the more necessary it may become to resort to
condemnation proceedings. These are likely to involve complicated political
issues, which reduce the probability that the acquisition targets will be met.
To ensure that fish and wildlife recommendations are implemented sponsor-
ing agencies should be required to submit an annual report to Congress and/or
the Office of Management and Budget which summarizes for each project in plan-
ning, under construction, or in operation during the preceding fiscal year the
implementation status of fish and wildlife measures. This report would ensure
that systematic monitoring of fish and wildlife recommendation would occur during
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