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n <br />II <br />7 <br />Table 11. Average EA release and percent of EA released by month for the <br />Commission's proposed action and the Service's RPA. . . . . . . . . . . . 133 <br />Table 12. Average monthly change in flow (af) at Grand Island relative to the <br />environmental baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 <br />Table 13. Average changes in flow below 2,400 cfs at Grand Island relative to <br />environmental baseline during spring and fall whooping crane migration season. <br />137 <br />Table 14. Whooping crane average habitat values* by month. . . . . . . . 138 <br />Table 15. Change in flows at Grand Island due to project operations relative <br />to the environmental baseline and the associated increase in depth to <br />groundwater in wet meadow habitat at Mormon Island Crane Meadows near Grand <br />Island, NE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 <br />Table 16. Percent of time 1,200 cfs met or exceeded at Grand Island during <br />the least tern and piping plover nesting season. . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 <br />Table 17a. Effects of the proposed action and the RPA on Platte River fish <br />community flows (1943 -1988) relative to the environmental baseline. . . 146 <br />' Table 17b. Effects of proposed action and the RPA on Platte River fish <br />habitat and number of zero flow months. . 147 <br />Table 18a. Annual EA release (af) during the 1953 -1957 drought period. . 148 <br />Table 18b. Number of zero flow months and low flow months (less than 100 to <br />600 cfs) during the 1953 -1957 drought period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 <br />' Table 19. Number of years flows are reduced and the average change in flows <br />during February through July for present conditions, the proposed action, and <br />the RPA relative to the environmental baseline (1943 to 1988) . . . . . . 150 <br />' Table 20. Estimated energy and capacity for present conditions, the proposed <br />action, and the RPA for the 1943 -1988 period of record. . . . . . . . .. 157 <br />v <br />!I <br />