9313 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9313
• Author: Burdick, B. D., J. Flair, M. Lloyd and B. Scheer.
• Title: Native and Nonnative Fish Use of Two Gravel-Pit Ponds Connected to the Upper Colorado River at 29-5/8 Road Near Grand Junction, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Project number CAP-6-GP,
• Copyright Material: NO

United States Department of the Interior
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
• Mountain-Prairie Region
IN REPLY REFF.It 7'O:
MAILING ADDRESS:
Post Office Box 25486
Denver Federal Center
Denver, Colorado 80225-0486
STREET LOCATION:
134 Union Blvd.
Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1807
FWS/R6
CO/KS/NE/UT
6-UT-97-F-007
Memorandum
JUL 2 9 1998
To: Program Manager, Central Utah Project Completion Act, U.S. Department
of the Interior, Provo, Utah
Executive Director, Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation
Commission, Salt Lake City, Utah
Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, Sall;
Lake City, Utah
Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Provo Area Office, Provo, Utah
Superintendent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Uintah and Ouray Agency,
Fort Duchesne, Utah
General Manager, Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Orem, Utahl
From: Regional Director. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 6, Denver.
Colorado
Subject: Final Biological Opinion, Duchesne River Basin, Utah
Section 7 (a) (1) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, directs
Federal agencies, in consultation with and with the assistance of tale
Secretary of the Interior, to utilize their authorities to further the
purposes of the Act by carrying out conservation programs far listed species.
Section 7 (a) (2) of the Act requires every Federal agency, in consultation
with the Secretary, to insure that any action it authorizes, funds, or carries
out is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed species
or result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat.
Pursuant to 50 CFR 402.16, reinitiation of formal consultation is required and
shall be requested by the Federal agency or by the Fish and Wildlife Service
where discretionary Federal involvement or control over the action has been
retained or is authorized by law and: a) if the amount or extent of taking
specified in the incidental take statement is exceeded; b) if new information
reveals effects of the action that may affect listed species or critical