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<br />4t <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />To properly address the full range of protection and recovery efforts for both listed and unlisted <br />species, the Department of Natural Resources estimates the Fund will need to be increased. <br />Assuming the Fund is managed as an annuity over a IS-year time period, returns a nominal rate <br />of 6 percent per year,2 and is effectively leveraged against other public and private sources of <br />revenue, the Department estimates that a capitalization of $24.5 million is necessary. <br /> <br />COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, RECOVERY PROGRAMS AND OTHER <br />PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO MEET OBLICAGIONS ARIZING UNDER THE <br />ENDANDERED SPECIES ACT <br /> <br />Colorado is currently involved in three river basin-oriented endangered species and habitat <br />recovery programs: the Cooperative Endangered Species Agreement for the Platte River Basin, <br />the San Juan River Recovery Program, the Upper Colorado River Recovery Program. <br />These programs are designed to protect species and habitat currently listed under the federal <br />Endangered Species Act, while allowing water use and development to proceed under state law <br />and interstate compacts (Appendices C, D, and E -copies of the Cooperative Agreements). <br /> <br />In addition, Colorado is coordinating the Habitat Conservation Planning (HCP) process for the <br />Preble's meadow jumping mouse (PMJM). Soon the counties affected by the listing will have <br />these plans in place. PMJM habitat conservation plans and implementation agreements will <br />protect the mouse and its habitat and provide the regulatory compliance that assures a <br />continuation of broad range human actives along the Front Range. <br /> <br />After years of hard work and study, the San Juan and Upper Colorado River Endangered <br />Fish Recovery Programs are beginning to yield positive results. Operating under Cooperative <br />Agreements in place since 1988 (Upper Colorado Program) and 1992 (San Juan Program), these <br />Programs are designed to protect four endangered fish species occurring in the Colorado River <br />Basin while allowing water development to continue in accordance with the State of Colorado's <br />entitlements under the Colorado River Compact. In addition to Colorado, the states of Utah, <br />Wyoming, and New Mexico, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Bureau of <br />Reclamation, water users, and the environmental community are engaged in these efforts. <br /> <br />As of December 1999, more than 200 water development projects in the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin have received the required clearances under the federal Endangered Species Act. <br />Populations of two of the four target species - the Colorado River Pikeminnow (formally the <br />Colorado River squawfish) and the humpback chub - are stable or increasing in response to <br />habitat management actions throughout the Upper Colorado River Basin, More effort is required <br />for the razorback sucker and the bonytail chub throughout the basin. As of December 30,1999, <br />work has progressed on the provision and protection of flows required to sustain the fish, the <br />development and maintenance of habitat, the stocking of native fish, control of non-native <br />competitors, and additional monitoring and research. <br /> <br />2 The nominal rate ofretum is not adjusted for inflation. <br /> <br />5 <br />