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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~~- -~ ~--~ ~~.~~ <br /> <br />~U"'" L.VLNJ.,J <br /> <br />~r~co~~~~ r.~~/l~ <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Secretary of the Interior joined the Governors of Colorado, Wyoming, and <br /> <br />Utah and the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration in executing a cooperative <br /> <br />agreement on January 21-22, 1988, to implement the Recovery Implementation Program for the <br /> <br />Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin (Recovery Program); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, elements of the Recovery Program are to acquire water and water rights to <br /> <br />protect the habiut of the endangered fish and to conduct research to identify the flow and habitat <br /> <br />requirements of the endangered fish; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, under Section 5 of the Endangerc:d Species Act (ESA), the Secretary of the <br />Interior has the al1thority to lease water for the cpnservation of endangered species; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Service has requested an addItional amount of water from Ruedi Reservoir on <br />a temporary basis to study and evaluate the elie~s of such additional water on the habitat of the <br />endangered fish ill the IS-mile reach and to preseJVe the habitat of the endangered fish to a <br />reasonable degree; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS;Reclamation 'can make additional water available for such purposes on a <br />temporary basis without interfering with the long-term Ruedi Reservoir Round II water marketing <br />program; ana <br /> <br />5 <br />