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<br /> <br />STATE OF WYOMING <br />OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR <br /> <br />JIM GERINGER <br />GOVERNOR <br /> <br />March 3, 1998 <br /> <br />STATE CAPITOL <br />CHEYENNE, WY 82002 <br /> <br />The Honorable Pete V. Domenici <br />Chairman <br />Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development <br />Senate Appropriations Committee <br />United States Senate <br />SD-127 Dirksen Senate Office Building <br />Washington, DC 20510 <br /> <br />Re: State of Wyoming's Support for Fiscal Year <br />1999 Bureau of Reclamation Budget Line Item <br />for "Upper Colorado Region Endangered <br />Species Recovery Programs and Activities" <br /> <br />Dear Chairman Domenici: <br /> <br />I am writing on behalf of the State of Wyoming to <br />request your support for an appropriation in Fiscal Year <br />1999 of $8,687,000 included in the Administration's <br />proposed IT 1999 budget for the Bureau of Reclamation <br />under an item labeled "Upper Colorado Region <br />Endangered Species Recovery Programs and Activities." <br />The bulk of that amount, a sum of $7,628,000, is <br />designated in the President's Budget for expenditure on <br />construction activities associated with the Recovery <br />Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin (Recovery Program) . <br /> <br />The State of Wyoming; along with the .States of <br />Colorado and Utah, environmental organizations, power <br />users, water development interests, the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the <br />Western Area Power Administration have been actively <br />conducting and jointly managing the Recovery Program <br />since its initiation in 1988. Now in its tenth year, <br />the Program has as its objectives recovering <br />(accomplishing de-listing from the ESA's endangered <br />species listing) four endangered fish species native to <br />the waters of the Upper Colorado River Basin while water <br />use and development continues in full compliance with <br />the Endangered Species Act. The Recovery Program is a <br />cooperative partnership that provides, we believe, the <br />best opportunity to recover the endangered fish species <br />and is providing regulatory certainty for water use and <br /> <br />E-MAIL: governor@misscstate.wy.us ^ TELEPHONE, (307) 777-7'd~ <br />WEB PAGE, www.state.wy.us .... TDD, (307) 777-7860 FA.'( (:307) 652-5<JO') <br />