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Recovery Program activities eligible for funding in FY 1999-2000 are drawn from the Recovery Program's Action Plan and state activities that are consistent with the Recovery Action Plan. These include: • the removal of non-native fish from floodplain ponds; • landowner incentives to manage ponds without warm-water species (such as through leases, short- term payments and trout stocking); • and the screening and berming of ponds to prevent warm-water fish escapement. Performance factors will include: • an evaluation of the number of private ponds reclaimed, bermed, and/or screened; • agreements with landowners; • and the actual installation of screens on water outlets (such as at Highline and Elkhead reservoirs). Funding from the Species Conservation Trust Fund would leverage additional funds available from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the states of Wyoming and Utah. Platte River Basin Endangered Species Cooperative Agreement FY 99-00 Funding Summary: Trust Fund Contributions Colorado's Estimated Estimated Total Long Request From Other Share of Long Term Term Cost Sources Costs $ 1,118,170 $15,000,000- $78,000,000- $18,000,000 $80,000,000 Operating Capital $300, 00 The goal of this program is to restore whooping crane, interior least tern, piping plover and pallid sturgeon habitat in the central Platte River Basin in Nebraska while water use and development activities continue throughout the basin in accordance with state law, interstate compacts and decrees. A preliminary agreement to restore habitat was reached in July 1997 between the states of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. This agreement provides a framework within which more detailed habitat restoration measures are being identified and evaluated as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Activities eligible for funding from the fund are drawn from the Platte River Basin Cooperative Agreement. These activities include: Further planning and development of Colorado's capacity to re-regulate the timing of flows in the lower reach of the South Platte River in accordance with the Tamarack managed groundwater recharge plan; Habitat protection in Nebraska through fee and easement acquisition; and, The completion of actions to meet federal law requirements pursuant to NEPA. Native Species Conservation Trust Fund Page 3 Eligibility List Colorado Department of Natural Resources