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? <br />Engineer's Tri-Lakes projects, and the Kingsley Dam relicensing, as described in Section 2.5.2, <br />2.5.3, and 2.5.4. <br />2. Under certain circumstances, historic projects may be subject to consultation under <br />Section 7 of the ESA. The Program is intended to offset all impacts of historic projects <br />occurring prior to the date of execution of the Cooperative Agreement initiating the Program. <br />Because the Program is providing the zeasonable and prudent alternatives for historic projects, <br />such alternatives or other conservation measures will not be required from historic projects <br />which undergo Section 7 consultation in the future, except for circumstances described in item <br />9 below. Any increase in depletions from historic projects will be treated as depletions from <br />new projects. 3. In Section 7 consultations on water projects, the Service will assess the impacts of <br /> <br />projects and determine if accomplishments and activities under the Program have been sufficient <br />to serve as a reasonable and prudent alternative. The Service will use accomplishments under <br />the Program as its measure of sufficient progress. The Service will also consider whether the <br />Program is capable of serving as a reasonable and prudent alternative as a result of a specific <br />depletion or the cumulative effect(s) of all depletions. Program activities contribute to sufficient <br />progress to the extent that they achieve a measurable improvement in the structure and function <br />of the Platte River endangered species habitat, a measurable population response, a measurable <br />improvement in terrestrial and aquatic components of habitat, legal protection of flows neederl <br />for habitat recovery, and/or reduction in threat(s) to Platte River endangered species and/or their <br />habitats. <br />4. If sufficient progress is being achieved, biological opinions will identify the activities and <br />accomplishments of the Program that support it serving as a reasonable and prudent alternative. <br />5. If sufficient progress is not being achieved, biological opinions for new and historic <br />projects will be written to identify which Program action(s) that must be completed to avoid <br />jeopardy, in accordance with the following: <br />24