Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume II Appendix K, Part 1

• Description: related to the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• State: NE
• Basin: North Platte
• Date: 7/1/1998
• Author: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ‎(FERC)‎ Office of Hydropower Licensing
• Title: Final Environmental Impact Statement ‎(EIS)‎ - Volume II, Appendix K, Part 1 - Kingsley Dam ‎(FERC Project No. 1417)‎ and North Platte/Keystone Dam ‎(FERC Project No. 1835)‎ Projects, Nebraska, FERC/FEIS-0063
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

COMMENTS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER AND
IRRIGATION DISTRICT
in historic mean and peak flows during the month of June
(the peak runoff and germination period), assigning
responsibility for changes based on May and June storage
records for mainstream reservoirs. This study concluded
that reductions in peak flow were predominantly caused by
water development upstream of the Projects, ultimately
allocating 85t of peak flow reduction to upstream reservoirs
in Wyoming and 15t to Lake McConaughy, though Simons noted
that both numbers were too high because they did not take
into account the many small diversions in the river
system.91
The role of these Projects and others in a basin -wide
environmental program is also presently being explored
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within the context of a recent MOA'a signed by Secretary
Babbitt of the Department of the Interior and the Governors
of the States of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado.
The purpose of the MOA is "to initiate the development
of a mutually acceptable Platte River Basin Endangered
Species Recovery Implementation Program" (Basin -Wide
Recovery Implementation Program) to address the needs of
listed species in Nebraska's Platte River basin upstream of
F (...continued)
to the Federal Energy Reculatory Commission's December 7.
1984 Deficiency Notice (May 5, 1990) ( "Joint Response ").
91 Id. at 73.
!-a MOA, see supra n.2.
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RESPONSES TO CENTRAL NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER AND
IRRIGATION DISTRICT