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photography. In addition, the supply canals and project lands surrounding the Canyon <br />Lakes (see Glossary) are made available for public use at no charge. Project facilities <br />include numerous campgrounds, areas for recreational vehicles and camping trailers, boat <br />ramps, picnic tables, grills, and water wells. <br />NPPD has long -term lease agreements with NGPC that make most lands around Project No. <br />1835 available for recreational use. The portion of Lake Ogallala that is administered by <br />NPPD has not been developed formally for recreation but is available for fishing and <br />waterfowl hunting. Most of the Sutherland and Korty supply canals are available for fishing <br />and hunting. NPPD leases 180 acres along the shoreline of Sutherland Reservoir for <br />recreational uses to NGPC and the Sutherland Reservoir Park Association. There is a multi- <br />use park with a golf course and 4 other developed recreational sites with 3 boat ramps, <br />campsites, 40 picnic tables, and other amenities available for public use. Most of the 3,000 - <br />acre Sutherland Reservoir is open for boating use. All of Lake Maloney's 1,650 acres of <br />water area and approximately one -third of the shoreline are open to public usage. The <br />remaining shoreline areas are leased to civic organizations, private clubs, and individuals for <br />cabin and residential use. <br />2.2 INTERIM MEASURES <br />As a result of Commission orders relating to the annual licenses held by Central and NPPD, <br />the projects include certain measures that provide interim protection for endangered and <br />threatened wildlife species (FERC, Order Amending License, Project No. 1417, issued July <br />16, 1991; and FERC, Order on Interim Licensing Conditions, Project No. 1835, issued <br />February 14, 1990). <br />Interim license conditions require NPPD to develop eight in -river nesting sites for interior <br />least terns and piping plovers. The sites are to be located within the 96- mile -long reach of <br />the central Platte River between Lexington and Chapman. To date, NPPD has developed <br />three in -river sites, and under its own initiative, three sandpit sites. By letter dated April 30, <br />1997, Commission staff accepted NPPD's proposal not to construct a fourth in -river site in <br />1997 but instructed NPPD to develop plans in 1997 for construction of the fourth island in <br />1998. <br />Central is required to cooperate with NGPC and the FWS in the development and <br />implementation of a plan to enhance up to 2,000 acres of wildlife habitat at the FWS's <br />Waterfowl Production Area at Funk Lagoon near Funk, Nebraska. Central has agreed to <br />reinstate FWS's long -term contract for deliveries of irrigation water to the site and to assist <br />FWS in development and construction of ponds and dikes. Additionally, Central is required <br />to develop and implement a plan to protect identified nesting sites for interior least terns and <br />piping plovers on all project lands, including those surrounding Lake McConaughy and at <br />selected sandpit habitat in the project area. <br />Because of the permanent nature of the foregoing measures, they are assumed in this EIS to <br />be part of the existing projects and their operation. The target flows specified by the July <br />2 -8 <br />