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e e e Anticipated Long-term Costs: The San Juan and Upper Colorado River Programs' capital projects could cost as much as $100 million during the remaining five to seven years of their anticipated duration. Under the proposed cost-share in the recently introduced federal funding legislation, Colorado's share for completion of the San Juan and Upper Colorado Programs is projected to be about $9 million. The balance, approximately $91 million, will be paid for by our funding partners: the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the states of Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, and electric power customers. Status of Activities and Expenditures from the HB 98-1006 Fund in FY 1999-2000: $222,000 was allocated from the Fund to the San Juan and Upper Colorado River Programs in FY 1999- 2000. These funds are paying for programs initiated by the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) to ensure that non-native fish do not continue to compete with the native endangered fish. Specific capital funds from the HB98-1 006 Fund have been directed at screening outlet works, building berms at 2 locations totaling 80 acres. This has been done to ensure that warm- water non-native fish left in ponds do not escape into the river system and compete with native species. On-site consultations, elevation surveys, and preliminary designs have been completed. Design refinements are proceeding with a completion date of final construction documents targeted to be no later than June 2000. Bids will be released in summer and actual construction will begin in fall - winter 2000 (contingent on water levels, environmental conditions at construction sites). Related Division of Wildlife operational actions, not using Funds has included removing non-native fish from 4 floodplain ponds in FY98-99. Recommended Expenditure from the HB 98-1006 Fund in FY 2000-2001: The DNR recommends allocating $225,000 from the fund to the San Juan and Upper Colorado River Programs in FY 2000-2001 to continue non-native fish control, implementing the first phase of efforts at the Duke Lake and Connected Lake complex near Grand Junction (55 acres). Actions would include design and construction of isolation berms to the 50-year flood level and securing intake and outlet structures as necessary to meet regulatory requirements. On July I, 1997, the governors of Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Secretary of the Interior signed the Platte River Basin Cooperative Endangered Species Agreement. The Cooperative Agreement describes a long-term habitat restoration program and commits the parties to a series of activities that provide certainty to Colorado water users and protection for the species. These activities include a three-year evaluation of the proposed program as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEP A). The Cooperative Agreement also provides a predictable ESA compliance mechanism for water facilities in the Platte River basin while NEP A compliance on the long-term program proceeds. Once NEP A compliance is complete, the Cooperative Agreement would be replaced by a subsequent agreement to implement the actions described in the Cooperative Agreement. These actions include buying and protecting land in Nebraska to provide habitat for target species; the whooping crane, piping plover, interior least tern, and pallid sturgeon. They also include regulating Platte River flows to reduce flow shortages at Grand Island Nebraska by an average of 130,000 to 150,000 acre-feet per year. Water users, environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the states of Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado are engaged in this effort. 7