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<br />I . ~ l.. . ~ ',-", <br /> <br />000585 <br /> <br />3.2 Habitat Restoration - This recovery element focuses on restoring endangered fish habitat <br />by providing fish passage around dams and diversions, screening diversions to prevent <br />endangered fish entrainment, and restoring or enhancing natural floodplain functions. <br />Approximately 49% of the FY 2002 budget is dedicated to this work. <br /> <br />A. Fish Passage and Screening <br /> <br />Operation and maintenance of the completed Redlands fish passage structure will continue. <br />This passage has restored fish access to 57 miles of the Gunnison River. Construction of <br />fish passage at the Grand Valley Irrigation Company diversion structure was completed in <br />FY 98, providing access to an additional 3 miles of habitat in the Colorado River. Work to <br />provide fish passage at Price Stubb and the Grand Valley Project (Roller Dam) continues. <br />Passage at these facilities will restore fish access to an additional 5.4 miles and 47 miles of <br />the Colorado River, respectively. Construction will completed on screening canal intakes <br />to prevent entrainment of endangered fish at the Grand Valley Irrigation Company <br />diversion on the Colorado River and the Tusher Wash diversion on the Green River. <br /> <br />B. Floodplain Habitat Restoration <br /> <br />The purpose of the Floodplain Habitat Restoration Program is to restore, enhance, and <br />protect natural floodplain functions that support recovery of the endangered fishes. The' <br />program seeks long-term floodplain protection via land acquisition, floodplain <br />restoration/enhancement via levee removal, evalualion of results, and an adaptive <br />management feedback loop. <br /> <br />The Program will continue to seek to acquire easements or fee title to lands for floodplain <br />restoration in FY 2002. Old Charley Wash will be operated for nonnative fish removal or <br />for growout of wild and/or hatchery-produced razorbacks, depending on river hydrology. <br />On the Colorado River, the Gravel Pit at 29 5/8 Road and the Jarvis site will be operated to <br />minimize benefits to nonnative fishes while providing surrogate floodplain habitat for <br />seasonal use by endangered fishes, <br /> <br />3.3 Reduce Nonnalive Fish and Soortfish Imoacts - The goal for nonnative fish control and <br />management in the Upper Colorado River Basin is to reduce lhe adverse impacls of <br />nonnalive fishes on the endangered fishes. 11 is unlikely that nonnalive fishes which have <br />become established in the Upper Colorado River Basin can be eliminated. Therefore, the <br />objectives of this recovery element are to: I) implement preventive measures; and <br />2) develop an active control program. Both objectives are being implemented through a <br />Nonnalive Fish Control Strategic Plan. Roughly 7% of the Recovery Program's <br />FY 2002is targeted for this work. <br /> <br />Nonnative fish control activities in FY 2002 -2003 will include: I) Evaluation ofremoval <br />of small nonnative cyprinid fishes from from the Colorado and Gunnison rivers in <br /> <br />5 <br />