WSP03180

• File Number: 8240.200.16.E
• Description: UCRBRIP Technical Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1996
• Author: UCRBRIP
• Title: Draft 1997 Work Plan Review
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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John Hamill
Director.
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Ralph Morgcnweck
Chairman.
Implementation Committee

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. P.O. Box 25486 . Denver Federal Center. Denver, CO 80225 . [phone] . Fax [phone]

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Program Management
- FY 97 Work Plan
Mail Stop 65115

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Memorandum

To:

Biology Committee and Interested Parties
Water Acquisition and Interested Parties
Information & Education and Interested Parties

From:

Director, Colorado River Recovery Implementation Program

Subject:

Draft FY 97 Work Plan for Technical Committee Review/Comment
COMMENT DUE DATE: July 19, 1996.

Attached for review and comment by the technical committees is the Program Director's
recommended work plan for FY 97. There are three parts to the plan at this point: I) a summary
table of projects; 2) a table ofFY 97 projected available funds; and 3) individual scopes of work.
Your package includes only those scopes of work relevant to your technical committee. Scopes
of work for the Yampa Operation and Management Plan (CAP9) and channel monitoring are
included in both the Water Acquisition Committee package and the Biology Committee package,

Technical committee comments on this plan are due to the Program Director and Management
Committee members, consultants, and interested parties by July 19, The Management Committee
will then meet in early August to discuss the recommended work plan and your comments and to
approve a draft FY 97 work plan for Implementation Committee review and approval.

With so many high-priority recovery activities to undertake, development of the annual work plan
becomes more challenging each year. Program Guidance was issued in March and most scopes
of work were submitted to my office in late April of this year, Program coordinators
subsequently reviewed these scopes and worked with principal investigators and other experts
to make any necessary revisions, That accomplished, my staff and I met as a group on
June 10 to consider the overall work plan, At the beginning of that meeting, scopes of work
submitted for the FY 97 work plan totaled almost $1 million over available annual funds and
more than $2 million over available capital funds! Thus, we were faced with a most agonizing
budget-balancing task,

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