WSP08290

• File Number: 8449.916
• Description: South Platte Projects
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 8/1/1997
• Author: McLaughlin Water Eng
• Title: Platte River Basin Study
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Section II - Critical Waler Problems in the Platte River Bas;n

During 1996, allocation of cost for the MOA generated recovery program
among the states and federal government was initially discussed. Growing
out ofthese discussions was the cost sharing arrangement contained in the
Cooperative Agreement, which involved the federal government paying
50 percent of the total expected cost of approximately $75 million for phase I
of the recovery program with the states dividing the remaining 50 percent on
a 40 percent (Nebraska), 40 percent (Colorado), and 20 percent (Wyoming)
basis (see Table 1). This cost sharing involved not only cash and cash
equivalents (e.g., land) but also in-kind contributions.

Table I.-MOA Program Contributions, Years 1-15"
values in millions of 1997 dollars)
Cash and Cash Equivalents'
States'
CO WY NE Total Federal Total
Years 1-3
Cons Study 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.9 0.0 0.9
Habitat Cash Equiv) 0.0 0.0 5.3 5.3 0.0 5.3
Other Cash 0.6 0.3 0.4 1.3 7.5 8.8
Total 0.9 0.6 6.0 7.5 7.5 15.0
Years 4-6
Cash 2.475 0.85 0.0 3.325 7.5 10.825
Years 7-15
Cash 7.425 2.55 0.0 9.975 22.5 32.475
Totals for Cash and Cash Equivalents
Years 1-6 3.375 1.45 6.0 10.825 15.0 25.825
Years 1-15 10.8 4.0 6.0 20.8 37.5 58.3
Water Projects
Years 1-15 4.2 3.5 9.0 16.7 0.0 16.7
Program Totals
15.0 7.5 15.0 37,5 37.5 75.0

I From: Cooperative Agreement For Platte River Recovery and Other Efforts
Relating to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central Platte River, Nebraska.
2 Individual Signatories may propose to the Governance Committee that certain interim
measures undertaken prior to the execution of the Cooperative Agreement may be credited to their
cash or cash eqUivalent contributions.

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