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<br /> <br />STATE OF WYOMING <br />OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR <br /> <br />JIM GERINGER <br />GOVERNOR <br /> <br />The Honorable Ralph Regula <br />Chairman <br />Subcommittee on Interior <br />House Appropriations Committee <br />United States House of Representatives <br />B-308 Rayburn House Office Building <br />Washington, DC 20515 <br /> <br />March 3, 1998 <br /> <br />STATE CAPITOL <br />CHEYENNE, WY 82002 <br /> <br />Re: State of Wyoming's Support for Fiscal Year 1999 <br />Appropriations to the Fish and Wildlife Service for the <br />Recovery Implementation Program for Epdangered Fish <br />Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin <br /> <br />Dear Chairman Regula: <br /> <br />I am writing on behalf of the State of Wyoming to request your <br />support and assistance in insuring continued Federal funding for <br />the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species of <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin (Recovery Program). The Recovery <br />Program is a cooperative partnership that is providing, we believe, <br />the best opportunity to recover four endangered fish species native <br />to the waters of the Uppe.r Colorado River Basin and regulatory <br />certainty for water use and continuing development in the Upper <br />Colorado River Basin portion of the three participating States. The <br />States of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, environmental organizations, <br />power users, water development interests, the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Western <br />Area Power Administration have been actively conducting and jointly <br />managing the Recovery Program since its initiation in 1988. <br /> <br />Wyoming joins with the other partners in the Program in making <br />three requests of your Subcommittee for the purpose of ensuring <br />that vitally important federal cost-sharing funds are provided to <br />the Recovery Program: <br /> <br />I. That the Subcommittee support the appropriation of <br />$636,000 of resource management funds to the U.S. Fish <br />and Wildlife Service (FWS) to meet its funding <br />commitment to the Recovery Program. This is the amount <br />requested in the President's FY 99 budget proposal and <br />is approximately the same amount requested in previous <br />years. <br /> <br />E-MAIL: governor@missc.st~l!l.. \'T.lIs <br />WEB PAGE: WWW.SI.tre.\\Y.llS <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />TELEI'II0\E 0071 777-7434 <br />TI>I), I.\II~I 777-7860 FAX, (3071632-3909 <br />