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<br />" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Recovery Program is an unusual partnership created in 1988 among the states of <br /> <br />Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, several federal agencies, enviromnental groups and water <br /> <br /> <br />development interests. Recovery Program participants have agreed to develop and implement <br /> <br /> <br />a plan to re-establish self-sustaining populations of the four fish species that are protected <br /> <br /> <br />within the Upper Colorado River Basin under the federal Endangered Species Act, These four <br /> <br /> <br />species -- Colorado squawfish, razorback sucker, humpback chub and bony tail chub -- are not <br /> <br /> <br />found outside the Colorado River Basin, <br /> <br /> <br />Appropriation and acquisition of water rights through Colorado's instream flow <br /> <br /> <br />program to preserve the habitat needed to recover the fish are among the CWCB's major <br /> <br /> <br />program responsibilities, By assuring that sufficient progress is being made toward full <br /> <br /> <br />recovery of the endangered fish, the partnership agreement enables cities, irrigators and other <br /> <br /> <br />water users to maintain existing water supplies and to develop new water projects that <br /> <br />otherwise have difficulty meeting federal Endangered Species Act requirements, <br /> <br /> <br />The City of Craig and the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District are among <br /> <br /> <br />approximately 120 Colorado water interests which have benefitted directly from this <br /> <br /> <br />cooperative commitment among the states, federal agencies, water development and <br /> <br /> <br />enviromnental interests. <br /> <br />### <br />