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species is believed to be extirpated in Nebraska. Lastly, the Service determined that the PBO Federal Action, including the continued operation of existing and certain new water-related activities, was not likely to adversely affect the endangered American burying beetle. The effects of the continued operation of existing and certain new water-related activities on the remaining species and critical habitats listed in Table II-1 of the PBO were beyond the scope of the PBO and were not considered. The Service has reviewed the information contained in the Biological Assessment submitted by your office on [Date]. We concur with your determinations of "likely to adversely affect" for the endangered whooping crane, interior least tern, pallid sturgeon, and the threatened northern Great Plains population of the piping plover, the western prairie fringed orchid, and the bald eagle in the central and lower Platte River. We also concur with your determination of "likely to adversely affect" for designated whooping crane critical habitat. We concur with your deternunations of "not likely to adversely affect" for the endangered American burying beetle, and of "no effect" to the endangered Eskimo curlew. We concur with your determinations of "not likely to adversely affect" [for species, species, and "no adverse modification of critical habitat" for species]. We concur with your deterriinations of "no effect" [for species, species, and critical habitat]. III. Scope of the Tier 2 Siological Opinion The [Project Name] is a component of "the continued operation of existing and certain new water-related activities" needing a federal action evaluated in the Tier 1 PBO, and flow-related effects of the Federal Action are consistent with the scope and the determination of effects in the June 16, 2006 PBO. Because [the project proponent] has elected to participate in the PRRIP, ESA compliance for flow-related effects to federally listed endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat from [Project Name] is provided to the extent described in the Tier 1 PBO. This biological opinion applies to the [Project Name] effects to listed endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat as described in the PBO for the first thirteen years of the PRRIP (i.e., the anticipated duration of the first PRRIP increment). IV. Description of the Federal Action [Describe the Federal Action and any Interdependent and Interrelated Actions- use text from the Biological Assessment] 3