PRRIP Late 2007 to 2008

• Description: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Various Documents from 2007 to 2008 including reports, studies, RFPs, proposals, budgets, Governance Committee ‎(GC)‎ meeting documents, and emails.
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/2007
• Author: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎
• Title: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Various Documents from 2007 to 2008 and emails.
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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IN REPLY REFER TO:
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United States Department of the Interior
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Mountain- Prairie Region
MAILING ADDRESS:
Post Office Box 25486
Denver Federal Center
Denver, Colorado 80225 -0486
STREET LOCATION:
134 Union Blvd.
Lakewood, Colorado 80228 -1807
2008
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL ONLY
MEMORANDUM
To: Dr. Jerry Kenny, Executive Director
Platte River Recovery Implementation Program
<KennyJ @h eadwaterscorp. com>
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From: Marls Butler, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service /s/
Platte River Liaison, Region 6
Subject: Reporting of Completed ESA Section 7 Consultations
As part of the Federal Depletions Plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is to
provide a summary report on an annual basis to the Governance Committee regarding
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 consultations that relate to the Platte River
Recovery Implementation Program (Program). Enclosed is a summary of consultations
completed during the first calendar year of the Program, from January, 2007 through
December, 2007, for distribution to the Governance Committee.
"Tiered Biological Opinions
The programmatic Platte River Recovery Implementation Program biological opinion
was issued on June 1.6, 2006, and as described in that opinion, subsequent Federal agency
activities with a federal -nexus (both existing and certain new water - related activities) and
their effects on listed species and designated critical habitat in the central and lower Platte
River are able to proceed in a streamlined manner and "tier" from the programmatic
biological opinion.
The Program. Document (page 21) states that "Such ESA compliance will continue
beyond the first 13 -years of the Program provided a subsequent Program increment or
First Increment Program extension is adopted pursuant to ESA and NEPA compliance
procedures, arid, for a subsequent increment, the effects of water- related activities are to
be covered under a programmatic biological opinion for that subsequent increment."
Based on the above, each completed biological opinion that tiered from the programmatic