7731

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7731
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, R. I. P.
• Title: Section 7 Consultation, Sufficient Progress, and Historic Projects Agreement and Recovery Action Plan.
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver, Colorado.
• Copyright Material: NO

1.3 RECOVERY ACTION PLAN PURPOSE
This Recovery Implementation Program Recovery Action Plan (RIPRAP) has been
developed using the best information available and the recovery goals established
for the four endangered fish species. The RIPRAP is intended to provide an
operational plan for implementing the~Recovery Program, including development of
the Program's annual work plan and future budget needs. Specifically, the RIPRAP
identifies the feasible actions which are necessary to recover the endangered
fishes, including schedules and budgets for implementing those actions. The
RIPRAP also identifies the specific recovery actions which must be accomplished in
order for the Recovery Program to serve as the reasonable and prudent alternative
to jeopardy for the. endangered fishes in Section 7 consultations for depletion
impacts of new projects and all existing or past impacts related to historic projects
(except impacts from contaminants) in the Upper Basin, in accordance with the
October 15, 1993 Section 7 Agreement. The RIPRAP was developed in support of
that Agreement.
1.4 ESTIMATED COST OF RECOVERY ACTIONS
Over the next 10 years, the budget for the Recovery Program is expected to total
584 to 5134 million (FY 93 dollarsl'. The funding is expected to come from the
following sources:
a. An annual operating budget of approximately 52.7 million (or
527 million over the next 10 years) will be contributed by the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation (including hydropower revenues); the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service; and the States of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
In addition, operation and maintenance of refugia and hatchery facilities
is expected to cost approximately 5500,000 per year, or 55 million over
the next 10 years.
b. Congressional appropriations of 550-5100 million will be requested over
the next 10 years, of which approximately 518-550 million will be used
to acquire water and water rights to implement and maintain adequate
in-stream flows for the fish, and 532-550 million will be used for capital
construction projects such as building fishways, hatcheries, and/or
restoring flooded bottomlands. The range of costs reflects uncertainties
regarding the scope of several projects and the degree to which other
project beneficiaries will be expected to share in the costs.
' This is a general estimate with a substantial range that is nit based on the
budget projections in Section 5.0.
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