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13 <br />• RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM <br />This summary is extracted from: "Final, Recovery Implementation Program <br />for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin" published by the <br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1987b). Wydoski and Hamill (1989) provided a <br />synthesis of the program, as well as a history of all recovery efforts for the rare <br />fishes. <br />The Recovery Implementation Program is the culmination of the efforts of <br />many groups to provide for the recovery of three species that are federally listed as <br />endangered (Colorado squawfish, bonytail chub, and humpback chub) and one <br />species that is a candidate for listing (razorback sucker), and at the same time <br />allow for prudent development of water resources in the Upper Basin. The States <br />• of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, as well as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and <br />US Fish and Wildlife Service, water development interests, and conservation groups <br />are participants in the program. Since 1978 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has <br />maintained that a jeopardy situation exists due to habitat loss, declining rare fish <br />populations, and other factors. To avoid confrontation between resource <br />protectionists and resource development groups due to water development <br />implications stemming from the jeopardy opinion of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife <br />Service in 1984, a memorandum of understanding was developed with the states of <br />Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, and the US Bureau of Reclamation. This called for <br />the establishment of the Upper Colorado River Basin Coordinating Committee, a <br />technical steering committee, with sub-committees composed of water users, <br />0