2002 Cooperative Agreements PRRIP

• Description: 2002 Draft Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Cooperative Agreement
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/4/2002
• Author: Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• Title: 2002 Draft Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Cooperative Agreement
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Contract/Agreement

REVISED DRAFT
• April 11, 2002
DOI and the three states, and shall continue for thirteen years from that date or
until any later date agreed upon by the Governance Committee in approval of an
extension, subject to Section II.H. of the Program Agreement. Subsequent
increments, if agreed to by the Secretary of Interior and governors of the three
states, will be implemented for such periods of time as may be set forth in a
replacement or extended cooperative agreement.
3. Objectives.
a. Long term Objectives. The long term objectives for the Program
are:
(1) to provide sufficient water to and through the Central Platte
River habitat areal o meet the general goal set forth in Paragraph II ,k .
above) by reregulation and water conservation/ supply projects;
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(2) to perpetually protect, restore where appropriate, and maintain
approximately 29,000 acres of suitable habitat in habitat complexes
in the Central Platte River area located between Lexington and
• Chapman, Nebraska.'
b. First Increment Objectives. DOI and the states commit to achieving
the following objectives by the end of the First Increment of the Program:
(1) improving the occurrence of Platte River flows in the (� i
associated habitats relative to the present occurrence of species and �J
annual pulse target flows' (hereinafter referred to as "reducing
shortages to the target flows ") by an average of 130,000 to 150,000
acre -feet per year as measured at Grand Island, through
' Non- complex habitat approved for acquisition by the GC will count toward the
29,000 acre objective because it will provide demonstrable benefits to target species. The
definitions of complex and non - complex habitat may be changed by the GC but are initially set
forth in the Habitat Protection Plan (Attachment __).
6 See FWS, Instream Flow Recommendations for the Central Platte River (May 23,
1994) and FWS, Pulse Flow Requirements for the Central Platte River (August 3, 1994) for flow
targets. The states have not agreed that these target flows are biologically or hydrologically
necessary to benefit or recover the target species.
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