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STATE OF COLORADO <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 721 <br />Deneer, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3441 <br />Fax: (303) 866-4474 <br />wuu-. c~~-cb. state. co. us <br />Bill Ritter, Jr. <br />NEWS RELEASE U°°elrior <br />OCt. 23 2007 Harris D. Sherman <br />~ DNR Executiee Director <br />For immediate release <br />Dan McAuliffe <br />For more information: Ted Kowalski Acting cwcB Director <br />Phone: (303) 866-3978 <br />Congress Gives Nod to Platte River Legislation <br />WASHINGTON, D.C. -The U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 1462, <br />which will fund a recovery program for threatened and endangered species that <br />have significant habitat along the Platte River in Nebraska. <br />The Platte River Recovery Implementation Program and Pathfinder Modification <br />Authorization Act was sponsored by Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo. Similar legislation, <br />S. 752, sponsored by Sens. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., Ken Salazar, D-Colo., Ben <br />Nelson, D-Neb. and Charles Hagel, R-Neb., is pending in the U.S. Senate. <br />The legislation would authorize a 13-year recovery program for threatened and <br />endangered species that have a designated habitat in Nebraska. The species include <br />the whooping crane, the least tern, the piping plover, and the pallid sturgeon. <br />Under the recovery program, land will be obtained and managed to create <br />additional habitat for the affected species and time water releases to meet their <br />needs. Using adaptive management techniques, the program's effectiveness in <br />species recovery will be evaluated and fine tuned. <br />"The program is modeled after a somewhat similar program for the recovery of <br />several endangered species of fish in the upper basin of the Colorado River," said <br />Udall. <br />Water Supply Protection • Fload Protection • Stream & Lake Protection • Rater Supply Planning & Finance <br />Water Conservation & Drought Planning • Intrastate Water Management & Development <br />