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
million,2V well in excess of the $5.5 million figure
calculated using DOI's formula from the Front Range cities'
biological opinions.
Yet FERC Staff has recommended that the Districts make
even further land -based habitat enhancements for endangered
species. While not identified directly in the basin -wide
programs DOI has cited in the Front Range opinions, some of
FERC Staff's recommendations call for monitoring conditions
with basin -wide import for endangered species. Examples are
the requirements for studying vegetative encroachment as
well as monitoring the use and efficacy of required
enhancement programs. FERC Staff has estimated the costs of
xthese programs at $6.9 million over the next thirty
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years .3 -0� Additional Staff recommendations are intended to
L91 FERC Staff estimates that costs would be $6.52
million initially plus $84,000 /year for the Districts to
purchase, develop and maintain two habitat complexes on the
Platte River between J -2 and Chapman. A third habitat
complex between J -2 and North Platte is estimated to cost
$3.1 million plus $38,000 /year. In addition, the Staff
estimates that developing and maintaining five additional
tern and plover islands would cost the Districts $875,000
initially plus $140,000 /year thereafter. RDEIS at E -16,
Table 8. With 5% escalation and 8% discounting of annual
recurring costs, over a thirty -year license these measures
are estimated to cost $12 million for enhancements below J -2
alone, and $16 million in all.
30/ These figures include $490,000 initially, then
$30,000 /year for channel morphology studies and $140,000
initially and $275,000 /year for monitoring programs.
Escalating annual costs at 5%, then discounting at 8t, the
Staff - estimated total of initial and annual costs is $6.9
million. The vast majority of the programs included in FERC
Staff's monitoring program are directed not at monitoring
compliance with any license conditions but with monitoring
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RESPONSES TO CENTRAL NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER AND
IRRIGATION DISTRICT