WSP04836

• File Number: 8240.300.10
• Description: San Juan Recovery Implementation Program
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Date: 2/1/1995
• Author: SJRIP
• Title: San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program - RIP Side by Side Analysis
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Long Range Implementation Plan

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San Juan RIP

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The plan will establish the milestones to
be utilized in analyzing progress of this
Implementation Program. The research
plan developed as a part of the section 7
consultations for the Animas-La Plaia
and Navajo Nation Indian Irrigation
Project will be used as a basis for the
overall research plan to assure that the
conditions of the consultations are met.

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The long Range Implementation Plan
will indicate the logical progression and
priority of implementing identified
recovery actions which are expected to
result in recovery and delisting of the
Colorado squawfish and razorback
sucker. As such steps are completed.
they constitute the milestones marking
progress in achieving the goat of
recovery of the endangered fish species.
So long as the milestones established in
the Long Range Implementation P1an are
met, it is the mutual expectation of the
Participants that this Recovery
Implementation Program will serve as
the foundation for a reasonable and
prudent alternative for section 7
consultations. but shall not preclude the
development of reasonable and prudent
alternative independent of the
Implementation Program.

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Upper Colorado AlP

The RIPAAP was finalized in 1993 which
identifies the feasible actions currently
believed to be required to recover the
endangered fishes in the most
expeditious manner possible in the upper
basin. The RIPRAP is intended to
provide an operational plan for
implementing the Recovery Program
including development of the Recovery
Program's annual work plan and future
budget needs. The RIPRAP also
identifies the specific recovery actions
which must be accomplished in order for
the Recovery Program to serve as the
reasonable and prudent alternative to
jeopardy and adverse modification of
critical habitat (as described abovel.
The RIPRAP was developed using the
best information available and the
recovery goals established for the four
endangered fish species. The plan is
considered an adaptive management
strategy because additional information,
changing priorities. and the development
of the States' entitlement may require
modifications to the RIPRAP.

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