WSP02691

• File Number: 8460.500
• Description: Platte River Recovery Plan
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 7/1/1997
• Author: Colo. Neb. Wyo
• Title: Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central Platte River, Nebraska
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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for purposes of anministrative or judicial appeals. FWS further believes that no person
or entity should be deemed to have waived or relinquished any right to challenge the
legal, scientific, or technical valid~ty of any aspect of the new biological opinion or
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Agreement, or by virtue of its support for this Cooperative Agreement in other judicial
or anmini~trative proceedings. In developing any new reasonable and prudent
alternative, FWS agrees to give credit for any contributions by the owner or operator of
the water related activity made pursuant to this Cooperative Agreement.

E. Any person or entity undertaking a water related activity described in Paragraph
VITI.A.I, 2, 3 or 4 must agree to inclusion of reopening authority by the federal action
agency in its funding or authorization documents and must agree to request amendments
by the federal action agency as needed to conform its federal authorization to any
agreed upon Program. Notwithstanni1\g Paragraph n.C.2, the states shall not be
restrained from taking a position adverse to one another in anmini~trative or judicial
prQl'....Aings to compel the action agency to include reopening authority in any such
federal funding or authorization.

IX.

GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE

Following the execution of this Cooperative Agreement, a Governance Committee is to
be established to review, direct, and provide oversight for the activities undertaken
'.underthisCooperative Agreement except-as provided by Paragraphs-Vll-and VIII-of.
this Cooperative Agreement.

A. Membership. The Governance Committee will consist of the following
members:

1. one member per signatory state. to be selected by the Governor of that
state;

2. two federal members, to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, one
representing FWS and one representing the Bureau of Reclamation ("BOR");

3. two environmental members representing the environmental entities in
the three states, to be selected by those entities;

4. one member representing water users on the North Platte River in
Wyoming and also water users in Nebraska above Lake McConaughy who have
storage contracts for water in the federal reservoirs in Wyoming, to be selected
by those users;

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