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While there may be depletions in flows in the lower Platte as compared to <br />historic conditions, and while most of the depletions are related to <br />depletions in the central Platte, since 1941, well before the decline of the <br />species in the Missouri River, spring flows in the Platte have increased. <br />Thus by extension, based upon FWS logic, the increase in spring <br />flows has improved habitat conditions in the lower Platte for pallid <br />sturgeon <br />While the present estimate is $4- million, it will be the tasks identified, not <br />the total cost, that the proposed Program will agree or not agree on doing. <br />Based on history... the CA in particular... the cost to carry out those tasks <br />will be greater than anticipated <br />There is an on -going study in Nebraska addressing many, if not most, of <br />the questions identified as important by the FWS. This effort to date has <br />cost more than $600,000 and two fish have been collected. (note: they are the <br />only fish ever found in the Platte River itself that have been verified as pallid sturgeon <br />through a visual inspection by a trained fishery biologist) <br />