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Requested FY 1996 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 />($623,000 requested in "Recovery" funds) <br />Recovery Program participants request Congressional support for the portion of the <br />President's proposed FY 1996 budget that contains $623,000 of Endangered Species <br />Recovery funds for the Service to participate in the Recovery Program. <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 />• Propagation and non - native fish management: This would fund Service coordi- <br />nation of hatchery development and expansion, genetics management and non- <br />native fish control. <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 Species Act Section <br />6 funds be earmarked for the Recovery Program before the Fish and Wildlife Service's <br />allocation formula is applied to the Section 6 funds nationwide. (Congress earmarked <br />these funds for the Recovery Program in FY 1992 through 1994.) Language would need <br />to be included in the Interior appropriations bill specifying the 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 Section 6 region -wide total <br />is expected to be only $583,000. Unless the $200,000 is dedicated before the alloca- <br />tion formula is applied, the Service's ability to fund other high priority recovery efforts <br />for theRegion's 71 other endangered species will suffer greatly. <br />2 <br />