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<br />' 2. A fee will be submitted as described in the PBO for new project depletions greater than <br />100 acre-feet/year. The fee is adjusted each year for inflation. The 1999 fee was $14.13 <br />' per acre-foot. <br />3. The Service will include individual incidental take statements in biological opinions for <br />' projects covered by the PBO. <br />4. Reinitiation stipulations will be included in all biological opinions for individual <br />' consultations under the umbrella of the PBO. <br />5. The Service will request that discretionary Federal control be retained for all <br />consultations under the PBO. <br />Future consultations that meet the criteria would avoid the likelihood of jeopardy and/or adverse <br />' <br />modification of critical habitat from depletion impacts. Projects that do not meet the criteria are <br />' not covered by the PBO, and therefore will require consultation outside of the Recovery <br />Program. <br />Participation in the measures identified in the PBO, and in the implementation of the alternatives <br />identified pursuant to this study to provide an annual average 20,000 acre-feet, will be strictly <br />' voluntary. <br />This report identifies specific facilities or property owned by public agencies and private parties. <br />Direct communication has not in all instances occurred with those parties, particularly with <br />regard to the preliminary identification of alternatives. Therefore, identification of alternatives is <br />not intended to, and does not, indicate agreement to participate by the person or entity involved <br />' in the implementation of any alternative. In order for any alternative to be implemented, the <br />affected parties must agree to implement that alternative. Specific issues and concerns with <br />regard to participation have been identified in this report, and the report makes some <br />' recommendations concerning potential incentives for parties to participate in the implementation <br />of identified alternatives. <br />' Review of present policy indicates that a lack of incentives exist for entities who are not <br />currently contemplating some action with a federal nexus. Consideration perhaps should be <br />given to developing incentives for participation in the Recovery Program by those entities <br />currently not proposing an action with a federal nexus. The consultant team in this report makes <br />suggestions in this regard. <br />2.3 ASSUMPTIONS <br />2.3.1 Model <br />Evaluation and analysis of the various alternatives in Phase I will be performed using StateMod, <br />the State of Colorado's Stream Simulation Model. StateMod was originally developed for the <br />p:\data\gen\Ocwcb\18133\report\phase-1\chap-2.doc 2-5