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<br />, / <br /> <br />--. <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />-~ <br />I' <br />, <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />" :---.. <br /> <br />BEST COpy <br /> <br />'J,"~e: :.. <br /> <br />F,VSE/~TRS--Dclores Project <br />co (6-5-SG-F-244) <br /> <br />;;.:;'~I ..),.'.5(.. <br />. .....:..i.-~.. <br />f, _ ~~;.... .' J...... <br />. ,~..... :"-.2. ~It . <br /> <br />- JUN <br /> <br />9198) <br /> <br />".:,,-' ~:;:, <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />lffi.10Wa1iJc <br /> <br />,TO: <br /> <br />Regional Director, Upper Colorado Region <br />\';aterand PO'..er Resources Service, Salt Lake City, Utah <br /> <br />"- <br />---- <br /> <br />!j <br />, <br /> <br />FROOi : <br /> <br />Regional Director, Region 6 <br />U.S. Fish end!'!Udlife Service, Denver, Colorado <br /> <br />....;...:. <br /> <br />S0EJECT: Biological .opinion for Dolores Proj ect, Colorado <br /> <br />;.;: ;"'" <br /> <br />:":"-~ <br /> <br />III response to your Pillrch 12, 1980, request for forn:.al consultation on tbe <br />Dolores Project, this biological opinion has been prepared as prescribed in <br />the Interagency Cooperation Regulations published in the January ,4. 1978, <br />Federal Register and the ~dangered Species Act, as anended. <br /> <br />.EIOLOGICAL O:;:n,101> <br /> <br />...:~o~ u . <br /> <br />~ proposed Dolores Project is =t likely to jeoperdi::e the continued <br />existe:lce of the bald eagle (Ealiaeetus leucocenhalus), k;:erican peregrine <br />fdenn (Falco peregrinus anat=). black-footed ferret (Hustel", ni)::'::"ipe.s), <br />U:iJ::ta Basin hookless cactus (ScleroC2ctus !'l.aucus). and Hcsa yerde cactus <br />(Sc1erocactus =a-verde). , " <br /> <br />, ' - ' <br />b-..ever, the proposed project villlikely j=pardi::e the continued Co}:istence <br />of the enCiangered Colorado squa..ofi:;h (ptvcbochail= lucius). bon)'tcll chub <br />(en" cle;;an.s), zrc.d h=?P3c1:. chub (Gila cypha). <br /> <br />PROJZCT DI:SCI'cI?TIOH <br /> <br />The Delores Proj act "",uld be .located in H::mt== and Dolores Counties in <br />southwest Colorado nnd \.;ould divert ",..tel: fro,," the Dolores Fci,,-er Msin to <br />t[1<, $= J= River fusin. The project ..'Quld include llcPhee Reservoir on <br />the Dolores River, ~~ s~e= Monl~~~t Cre~ ~~rl p~~son D~a~ Rese~~irs in <br />the San Juan P.iver Basin" and t\.~ 03jcr co::v0.yance Eiystens. An average of <br />lJl,OOJ acre-feet of vater a~ua11y wUlQd be depleted fro~ the Dolores <br />E.i.ve.r for the i.~1bo.tiO? of 26,300 acres of &upplc.mcucnl service lend 2.:ld <br />II <br /> <br />.. .~. <br /> <br />".:.~. \.... <br />