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Requested FY 1997 Congressional action items <br />(Detailed version) <br />Fish and Wildlife Service budget <br />1. Support Fish and Wildlife Service funding for the Recovery Program. <br />($624,000 requested in "Recovery" funds) <br />Recovery Program participants request Congressional support for $624,000 of <br />Endangered Species Recovery funds for the Service to participate in the Recovery <br />Program in FY 1997. <br />Projects to be funded are: <br />• Fish and Wildlife Service program management: Funding covers Program <br />Director's office staff salaries and expenses. <br />• Interagency standardized monitoring program: This supports Service participa- <br />tion in monitoring fish populations, a crucial element of the Recovery Program. <br />• Yampa River in- stream flow studies: This would provide funding for a long -term <br />monitoring program to evaluate changes in Yampa River endangered fish popula- <br />tions according to changing hydrology and non - native fish abundance and compo- <br />sition. The program will yield integrated data on river flows, habitat and fish popu- <br />lations, which also can be used to evaluate effects of future water development. <br />• Aspinall Unit (Blue Mesa Dam) in- stream flow studies: An analysis of the effects <br />of flows on endangered fish habitat and food availability will be completed with <br />these funds. <br />2. Earmark Fish and Wildlife Service Section 6 funds. <br />($200,000 requested for "Grants to States ") <br />Recovery Program participants request that $200,000 of Endangered S�POIes Act Section <br />6 funds be earmarked for the Recovery Program before the Fish a Wildlife Service's <br />allocation formula is applied to the Section 6 funds nationwi (Congress earmarked <br />these funds for the Recovery Program in FY 1992 through' 1995 Language would need <br />to be included in the Interior appropriations bill specifying tie requested earmark. <br />The allocation formula determines the amount of Section 6 funding to be given for the <br />eight states in Region 6, based in Denver. In FY 1996, the region -wide Section 6 fund- <br />ing total was expected to be reduced to $583,000; the actual amount to be received is <br />2 <br />