PRRIP Purposes and Overview Draft ‎(2)‎

• File Number: 8461.350
• Description: Legislation
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 11/29/2005
• Author: DOI, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska
• Title: PRRIP Purposes and Overview Draft
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

4. Projuess toward Meeting Objectives and ESA Compliance. ESA
compliance will be measured through the achievement of the First Increment
Milestones (Attachment 2). Any milestones or other measures of ESA
compliance to be used during subsequent increments will be developed prior to
the beginning of such increments. Milestones may be revised by the Governance
Committee so long as they are consistent with the Program and First Increment
obj ectives.
Included in Attachment 2 are explanatory materials and estimated time frames for
anticipated interim steps that will be taken towards meeting each milestone to
assist the Governance Committee in managing, assessing, and, as appropriate,
adjusting work carried out during the First Increment. The explanatory
information and related interim steps and schedules are included as background
information only and are not to be considered as individual milestones for
purposes of ESA compliance.
B. Modification of the Program
1. Amendments by the Secretary of the Interior and Governors of Colorado,
Nebraska, and Wyomin during the First Increment.
The following changes to the Program will require unanimous consent of
the Secretary of the Interior and the Governors of Colorado, Nebraska and
Wyoming, and will require a formal amendment of the Program
Agreement and this Program Document:
a. Change of the First Increment objectives of providing water
capable of reducing the shorta e? to target flows bxan average of
130,000 to 150,000 acre feet per year °f shet*ag° r°aue*ion *o
t?r?-°?j-and of protecting, restoring where appropriate, and
maintaining 10,000 acres of habitat for the target species;
b. Change to Section N of the Program Document regarding
regulatory certainty afforded under the Program;
c. Change to underlying principles of the Program that limit it to
acquiring interest in land only from willing participants (Section
III.D), that provide that the Program will pay taxes or their
equivalent (per Section III.D.I.c), and that define July 1, 1997 as
the date for new and existing water-related activities(per- feetnote
;
d. Increase of signatories= funding responsibilities under the
Program; or
e. Establishment of a subsequent increment of the Program.
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