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<br />~ <br /> <br />Final Reoort <br /> <br />Aoril 2004 <br /> <br />action are efforts to collectively and cooperatively work out possible options for such <br />actions as: re-operation of diversion or storage facilities, variable water use (drought <br />options), possible acquisition (e.g.; donations, purchase, leasing), better monitoring and <br />management of diversions (efficiency), protection under the CWCS Instream Flow <br />Program, limiting diversions to decreed amounts, and conservation. It is anticipated that <br />the first two tiers of tools, if applied or implemented, could provide the needed instream <br />flow protection on National Forest lands without having to impose bypass flow conditions <br />on special-use permits. <br /> <br />The Pathfinder Project Report is a strategy of progressive action. This strategy seeks <br />cooperation first, then moving to more collective and coordinated efforts. It provides a <br />variety of options that achieve the desired outcomes with regard to instream flows before <br />the Forest Service would move to take unilateral federal action to provide instream flows <br />through bypass flow requirements for special-use permits. This last course of action <br />would only occur when and if the applicable tools in the first two tiers have been <br />exhausted and determined not to meet Forest instream flow needs. The Pathfinder <br />Project strategy views the application of bypass flow requirements as a federal action of <br />"last resort," while recognizing that parties supporting the strategy have not waived their <br />rights and abilities to challenge such action. <br />