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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Rush Creeks. A preliminary design entails conversion of 5 small impoundments to 3 larger, deeper <br />impounds, 2 spawning channels, and associated water control structures. <br /> <br />Recommended Expenditures from the HB 98-1006 Fund in FY 2000-2001: The DNR <br />recommends allocating $100,000 from the Fund to continue to acquire easements for Arkansas <br />darter habitat and $300,000 to fabricate and install an ultraviolet water treatment system for <br />native cutthroat at Mt. Ouray hatchery near Salida. The UV system should provide protection <br />against disease organisms including whirling disease by treating the incoming water with ultraviolet <br />light. This will ensure the Division's ability to produce and re-introduce 500,000 inches of native <br />cutthroats per year. <br /> <br />The Prairie Grasslands Species program is directed toward developing conservation plans and <br />agreements for prairie grassland species not currently listed under the federal Endangered <br />Species Act, but that may be listed if no action is taken. <br /> <br />The species that would be addressed through this program include the mountain plover (petitioned <br />for federal listing), the burrowing owl (currently listed under state law as threatened), the long- <br />billed curlew (species of special concern), the upland sandpiper (undetermined status), and the <br />black-tailed prairie dog, which has been petitioned for federal listing as a threatened species. <br /> <br />Anticipated Long term Costs: The long-term costs of this effort, as well as a full range of <br />sources to fund these costs, will be developed through a cooperative planning process. <br /> <br />Status of Activities and Expenditures from the HB 98-1006 Fund in FY 1999-2000: <br />$75,000 from the FY 1999-2000 Fund remains open to bids for prairie dog and plover studies and <br />inventories. The DNR solicited bids on this proposal in 1999, but received only one response due <br />to an aggressive time schedule for completion of work. Rather than proceed with the only bid, the <br />DNR will resubmit this proposal, adjust the time frame of the work plan in an effort to solicit more <br />responses and, therefore, assure the highest quality work on this important issue. <br /> <br />Recommended Expenditures from the HB 98-1006 Fund in FY 2000-2001: The DNR <br />recommends no allocations from the Fund for this program in FY 2000-2001. <br /> <br />11 <br />