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Executive Summary <br />The purpose of this Final Report is to provide estimates of the potential third party impacts <br />associated with the Habitat Component of the First Increment of the proposed Platte River <br />Recovery Implementation Program (herein referred to as "Program "). The goal of the Program <br />is to protect habitat for targeted species in and along the Platte River from Lexington to <br />Chapman, Nebraska while minimizing the expected adverse third party impacts to landowners <br />and residents. The Program will focus on improving and maintaining migration habitat for <br />whooping cranes and reproductive habitat for least terns and piping plovers. It will strive to <br />achieve the habitat goal through acquisition, restoration and management of land and/or land <br />interests along an 89 -mile stretch of the Platte River in central Nebraska. <br />The milestones and exact structure of the Habitat Component have yet to be defined by the <br />Governance Committee (GC) and the Land Committee (LC) and this study is designed to <br />provide input which will minimize or avoid potential negative impacts. Therefore, the results <br />presented in this report provide an estimate of the type, characteristics and general extent of <br />potential impacts and not the specific impacts that would occur when the proposed Program is <br />implemented. <br />The Scope of Work developed for this study was the result of five scoping meetings facilitated <br />by Hazen and Sawyer and attended by members of the Land Committee, the Third Party Impact <br />Subcommittee, the Governance Committee and the Executive Director of the Platte River <br />Implementation Program This Final Report follows the guidelines developed in the Phase II <br />Statement of Work dated June 9, 1999. Hazen and Sawyer published a Draft Report titled <br />"Identification and Evaluation of Potential Third Party Impacts Related to the Habitat <br />Component of the Proposed Platte River Recovery Implementation Program", in November, <br />1999 and extended a comment period to December 31, 1999. Additionally, Hazen and Sawyer <br />released a Final Draft Report on January 31, 2000 and extended a comment period related to this <br />report. The results summarized in this Final Report have considered the comments received on <br />both the Draft and Final Draft Reports. <br />Third Party Impacts. The impact variables that describe the perceived and hypothesized third <br />party impacts are listed below. <br />Changes in current land use to habitat areas <br />- Changes in total income in the study area <br />- Changes in total sales and employment in the study area <br />- Changes in crop patterns and value of crop production in the study area <br />Changes in recreation activity <br />- Changes in net recreational opportunities and visitations in the study area <br />- Changes in total net recreational expenditures in the study area <br />- Changes in total income in the study area <br />Hwd.40210R009.doc ES -1 Third Parry Impact Study <br />Final Report <br />