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<br />Requested FY 2000 Congressional action items <br /> <br />Fish and Wildlife Service budget <br /> <br />1. Support Fish and Wildlife Service funding for the Recovery Program. <br />($624,000 requested in "Recovery" funds.) <br /> <br />Recovery Program participants request Congressional support for $624,000 of Endangered <br />Species Recovery funds for the Service to participate in the Recovery Program in FY 2000. <br />Projects to be funded are: <br /> <br />. Fish and Wildlife Service program management: Funding covers Program <br />Director's office staff salaries and expenses. <br /> <br />. Interagency standardized monitoring program: This activity supports Service <br />participation in monitoring fish populations and their responses to recovery actions. <br /> <br />. Data management: The Service maintains all fish data collected in the Recovery Program <br />in computerized form to facilitate analyses. This includes maintaining the overall database, <br />summarizing data, and providing an annual listing of all tagged fish. <br /> <br />. Basin-wide channel monitoring: This involves monitoring the physical conditions of <br />the rivers in the upper Colorado River basin and endangered fish habitat to support flow <br />recommendations, flooded bottom lands restoration, and other recovery activities. <br /> <br />. Razorback sucker stocking: Funding is used to stock razorback suckers in the Colorado <br />and Gunnison rivers and to conduct follow-up evaluations. <br /> <br />2. Earmark Fish and Wildlife Service Section 6 funds. <br />($200,000 requested for "Grants to States.") <br /> <br />Recovery Program participants request that $200,000 of Endangered Species Act section 6 <br />funds be earmarked for the Recovery Program before the Fish and Wildlife Service's <br />allocation formula is applied to the section 6 funds nationwide. (Congress earmarked these <br />funds for the Recovery Program in FY 1992 through 1994.) Language would need to be <br />included in the Interior appropriations bill specifying the requested earmark <br /> <br />The allocation formula determines the amount of Section 6 funding to be given for the eight <br />states in Region 6, based in Denver. In FY 2000, the region-wide section 6 funding total is <br />expected to be approximately $429,000. Unless $200,000 is dedicated to the Recovery <br />Program before the allocation formula is applied, the Service's ability to fund other high- <br />priority recovery efforts for the more than 70 endangered species in Region 6 wilt suffer <br />greatly. Projects to be funded with the $200,000 in Grants to States are: <br /> <br />. Interagency standardized monitoring program: Funding will cover palticipation by <br />the States of Colorado and Utah in large-scale monitoring of endangered fish populations <br />and their response to recovery activities. <br /> <br />. Non-native fish control: This involves removing non-native fish such as red shiners, <br />fathead minnows, green sunfish, bluegill, largemouth bass, and black crappie from key <br />areas on the Colorado, Gunnison, and Green rivers to benefit young endangered fish. <br /> <br />. Bony tail stocking: Funding would support stocking of bony tail in the Colorado River <br />near Moab, Utah, and monitoring the fish to determine stocking success. <br /> <br />2 <br />