PRRIP Draft Environmental Impact Statement Summary

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Summary Help prevent the need to list more species. Accomplish these objectives in a Basinwide, comprehensive, and collaborative fashion that will help ensure that Program actions are coordinated and effective. ALTERNATIVES The Cooperative Agreement established a Governance Committee, representing the three States, water users, environmental groups, and Federal agencies, to develop a proposal for the Program. Pursuant to the Cooperative Agreement, the members of the Governance Committee have formulated a proposal for the Program to be evaluated by Interior under the NEPA and ESA (see Cooperative Agreement, attachment 1, "Milestones for the Cooperative Agreement "). Although the Governance Committee has put this proposal forward for NEPA and ESA evaluation, no final decisions have yet been made by the Governance Committee or their member organizations to adopt or implement the proposal. Decisions on implementation by the State governors and the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) are not expected until early 2005, after completion of the NEPA and ESA review process. As required by NEPA, the EIS analyzes the Governance Committee's proposal and other action alternatives: Governance Committee Alternative Water Leasing Alternative Wet Meadow Alternative Water Emphasis Alternative The study evaluates the benefits and impacts of these four action alternatives over the first 13 years of implementation (the First Increment of the Program). Interior has not selected its preferred alternative at this time. It is important to note that this Summary does not provide details of the alternatives or the analysis. Footnotes and source citations are not included in this Summary. For details of the Draft EIS analysis, see the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program Draft Programmatic EIS (DEIS), available from the Platte River EIS Office and at www.platteriver.org_ For a detailed description of the Governance Committee's proposal, see the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program Document, available at www.platteriver.or,u or from the office of the Executive Director, Governance Committee (see "Cover Sheet ").