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7/26/2006
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WSP Section - Platte River Endangered Species Program
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<br />" <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ST A TE OF COLORADO <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 721 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3441 <br />FAX: (303) 866-4474 <br />www.cwcb.statc.co.llS <br /> <br /> <br />Bill Owens <br />Governor <br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />CWCB Members <br /> <br />Russell George <br />EXi:.'Cutive Director <br /> <br />From: Randy Seaholm <br />Ted Kowalski <br /> <br />Rod Kuharich <br />CWCB Director <br /> <br />Date: July 12, 2006 <br /> <br />Rick Brown <br />Acting Deputy <br />Director <br /> <br />Re: Agenda Item 21, Jnly 25-26, 2006 Board Meeting, Water Supply Protection- <br />Platte River Endangered Species Program <br /> <br />Backl!round <br />In 1997, the Governors of the States of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming signed an agreement with <br />the Department ofInterior to improve and/or study the habitat of four endangered species in the <br />Central Platte River in Nebraska. The Cooperative Agreement ("CA") was extended through June <br />30,2005 to allow additional time to formulate a proposed Program and complete National <br />Environmental Policy Act CNEPA") compliance. The CA was further extended to allow the <br />Governance Committee ("GC") to finalize and get the Program into place. The current CA expires <br />on September 30, 2006. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation ("BOR") and Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS") issued the Final <br />Environmental Impact Statement ("FEIS") and final Biological Opinion ("BO"), respectively, in May <br />and June, 2006. A Record of Decision should follow in the next few months. <br /> <br />The State of Wyoming and the federal government have expressed support for signing the Program <br />agreement as soon as possible. The State of Nebraska will be holding hearings on the proposed <br />Program in September and October, 2006. Consequently, a new cooperative agreement will be <br />necessary to further establish the foundation for the Program, and to provide regulatory coverage for <br />water projects that rely on the Program for compliance with the Endangered Species Act. This new <br />cooperative agreement would have to become effective on or before October 1,2006 and could <br />terminate when a final Program agreement is executed. We will keep the Board informed about this <br />possibility, and bring it back to the Board in September. <br /> <br />The proposed program would be a basin-wide effort undertaken by Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, <br />and the Department of the Interior to provide benefits for the endangered interior least tern, <br />whooping crane, and pallid sturgeon and the threatened piping plover (the target species). See the <br />attached map of the Platte River program area. Through the program the States and the federal <br />government would provide land, water, and systematic monitoring and research. The Program is <br />designed to be incremental, with the first increment lasting at least 13 years. During the first <br />increment, the program objectives are to: I) retime and improve flows in the central Platte River by <br />Flood Protection. Water Supply Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection <br />Water Supply Protection. Conservation and Drought Pla.nning <br />
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