Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats

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• Committee will be directed to engage the services of a competent hydrologic engineering entity through a competitive bid process, and thereby initiate the Study. The Governance Committee, acting through the Water Management Committee, will identify and initiate any demonstration water conservation/supply projects that could be pursued immediately without the benefit of further information to be derived from the study. W2 -1 The Nebraska Districts will implement any water reregulation and water conservation measures required by new FERC license articles for FERC Projects Nos. 1417 and 1835. W3 -1 Nebraska will develop means for protecting Program water deliveries, above the existing flow conditions, to and through the critical habitat and will, in cooperation with the other parties, select pilot projects for potential protection under Nebraska Statute 46 -252. W4-1 Nebraska will develop means for protecting, where appropriate, existing flow conditions in Nebraska by: monitoring and documenting new water related activities in the Platte River Basin in Nebraska upstream of the confluence with the Loup River and, in coordination with the depletion impact analysis described in Milestone W14-1, identifying and beginning to evaluate optional ways to • mitigate, offset for, or prevent any new depletions if a Program is initiated. W5 -1 Colorado will develop means, if such are necessary, for protecting Program water deliveries to the Colorado-Nebraska state line and, as appropriate, the Colorado-Wyoming state line. W6-1 Within six months from the effective date of the Cooperative Agreement, Colorado will provide to the Governance Committee population estimates within the South Platte River Basin in Colorado (in accordance with Att. III, App. A, Tab 3B). W7 -1 Within six months from the effective date of the Cooperative Agreement, Colorado will provide to the Governance Committee an estimate of the expected population increase within the South Platte River Basin in Colorado for the period ending five years from the effective date of the Cooperative Agreement (in accordance with Att. III, App. A, Tab 3B). W8 -1 Within six months from the effective date of the Cooperative Agreement, Colorado will recommend to the Governance Committee assumptions concerning the monthly distribution of the accretive /depletive effects of sources of supply in accordance with Att. III, App. A, Tab 3B. The Governance • Committee will review and verify assumptions concerning the monthly