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Summary <br />Platte River Recovery Implementation Program <br />Draft Environmental Impact Statement <br />OVERVIEW <br />The U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact <br />Statement (DEIS) to assess the environmental consequences of the First Increment (13 years) of a <br />proposed Recovery Implementation Program (Program) to benefit four threatened and endangered species <br />and their habitat in and along the Platte River in Nebraska (the four "target species "). The four target <br />species are the whooping crane, the interior least tern, the piping plover, and the pallid sturgeon. The <br />analysis is carried out to meet requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the <br />Endangered Species Act (ESA). This document is a summary of the DEIS. <br />In 1997, the States of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming and Interior signed a Cooperative Agreement <br />for Platte River Research and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central <br />Platte River, Nebraska (Cooperative Agreement).' In this agreement, the signatories agreed to pursue a <br />Basinwide, cooperative effort to improve and maintain habitat for the target species using the Platte River <br />in Nebraska. The Program is the proposed Federal action analyzed in the DEIS. <br />The Program, when implemented, is intended to provide compliance with the ESA for certain existing <br />water projects and water uses in the Platte River Basin (Basin) for the target species, as well as for certain <br />future water uses during the first increment of 13 years. <br />'Available at <www.platteriver.org> or from the Office of the Executive Director, Governance Committee (see <br />"Cover Sheet'). <br />