7938

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7938
• Author: Colorado River Wildlife Council.
• Title: Minutes, Colorado River Fish & Wildlife Council.
• USFW Year: 1995.
• USFW - Doc Type: April 18-19, 1995.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Cooperative Agreement.
No. 4-FC-30-00270
Between
Bureau of Reclamation
and
Grand Canyon Trust
for
Development of a
Colorado River Basin Water Management Strategy
This Cooperative Agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation, hereinafter
referred to as "Reclamation," and the Grand Canyon Trust, hereinafter referred
to as "Trust.," has been entered inlu pur•sudnt to:'the Reclamation Act or June
17, 1902, (43 USC 391 et.seq.); and the National Historic Preservation Act of
1966, as amended.
Several project specific Acts relating to the management of the Colorado River
also have authorities and purposes that are in part.applicable to this
agreement including but not limited to: the Colorado River Basin Protect Act
of 1968 (Pub. L.90-537; 82 Stat 885), as amended and supplemented, the Boulder
Canyon Project Act of 1928 (45 stat 1057), the Colorado River Storage Project
Act of 1956 (70 Stat 105), and the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act
of 1974 (Public Law 93-320, 88 stat. 266).
Finally regulatory and coordination acts including the Endangered Species Act
of 1973, as- amended (16 USC 1531 et. seq.), the Federal Water Projects
Recreation Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89-72; 79 Stat 213),,..and the Fish and Wildlife
0 Coordination Act of 1958, (16 USC 661-664), provide additional authority for
management actions that are considered under this agreement.
I. PURPOSE:
The purpose of this agreement is to enter into a cooperative, cost-sharing (funds
and/or in-kind services) stWy to develop strategies and recommendations that can
be used in developing and making, decisions that augment and improve comprehensive
management of the Colorado River Basin rasnurras. Theso rasourca areas include
but are nit limited to water, fish and wildlife, power, cultural resources, and
recreation. The study will include analysis and provide recommendations on the
following topics: water development and management, water marketing,
environmental protection, conservation and enhancement, salinity control, Native
American water rights and trust assets, reservoir and river operation, power
marketing, recreation development and management, endangered species, and drought
and.contingency planning.
This study will provide information and recommendations that will assist
Reclamation and Department of the Interior in developing and implementing actions
and programs that are responsive to contemporary and potential. future public
needs which center on management actions that concern protection, conservation,
restoration and consumptive use of Colorado River Resources. Work under this
agreement will provide results that support an ecosystem and Colorado River basin
approach to managing public resources.
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