BOARD00058

• Board Meeting Date: 1/24/2001
• Description: Native Species Conservation Trust Fund Recommendations
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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HE 98.1006 Native Species Conservation Trust Fund
Species Conservation Eligibility List
Fiscal Year 2QO 1-2002

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Introduction

HE 98-1006 created a Native Species ConservationiTrust Fund. Each year the Executive
Director of the Department of Natural Resources (r>NR), after consulting with the Colorado
Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and its director, the Wildlife Commission, and the director.
of the Di vision of Wildlife (DOW), must prepare a species conservation eligibility list.
describing programs that are eligible to receive funding, and their associated costs.

The Species Conservation Eligibility List is then subject to modification and adoption through
the passage of ajoint resolution by the General Assembly.

When the species conservation eligibility list is sub1TIitted, the DNR Executive Director must
also provide a report on the progress and status of activities to date and their effectiveness in the
recovery of the species, and identify proposed future activities.

Funding Distribution

The Act requires that funding be distributed for the following purposes:

(i) Cooperative agreements, recovery programs,. and other programs that are designed to
meet obligations arising under the federal "Endangered Species Act of 1973" that provide
regulatory certainty;

(ii) Studies and programs established or approved the DOW and the Executive Director of
the DNR regarding:

(a) Species placed on the endangered or threatened list;

(b) Candidate species, in order to assist in the recovery or protection of the species to avoid
listing of the species; and ,

(c) Scientific research relating to listing or delisting any species.

Reeommended Programs
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Reeovery Programs for the Endangered Fish of the Upper Colorado and San Juan Basin

Unner Colorado River Non-native Fish Conti'ol P~olect.

The purpose of this project is to reduce the abundan~e and distribution of threatening non-native
fish species so that they will not impede the recove~y of the Colorado River endangered fishes.
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Summary !

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Prior Progress Hlgh!lghts
Allocations.

$222,000
('00)

Corn (10 ac) desilln has been completed,Job
showinllS have occurred, and bid package
scheduled for rcleaile by Jan 1. Construction
Is scheduled for Spring 200 1.

Contluence Lake (70 ac) prOject design Is
onlloinll in consuhation with DPOR. This
includes inlilke structures and settling pond.

F:Y 01-02
Proposal.
$1,646,000

FY 01..02 Contributions from other
sources and operating support (leverage)

Total $2,447,348; leverage ratio of
1.4977 = $417,648 oaco; $117,912
other DOW; $54,000 federal; $211 )88
other granls

$325,000
CO!)

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