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<br />, <br /> <br />f":') <br />'-:::> <br />.., <br />-, <br />N <br />W <br /> <br />Department of the Interior <br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service <br /> <br />FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT <br />FOR <br />AN EXPERIMENTAL STOCKING OF COLORADO SQUAWFISH <br />IN THE SAN JUAN RIVER <br /> <br />The Regional Directors, Mountain and Prairie Region (Region 6) and the Southwest Region <br />(Region 2), of the Fish and Wildlife Service are requested to approve the stocking of 50 adult <br />Colorado squawfish in the San Juan River. The New Mexico Ecological Services Office, in <br />concert with Ecological Services Offices in the Utah and Colorado, has prepared the attached <br />Environmental Assessment (EA) to provide an analysis and assessment of impacts to the <br />environment from the proposed plan. <br /> <br />The experimental stocking of Colorado squawfish in the San Juan River is a component of the <br />Federal, State, Tribal, and private San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program for <br />endangered fish species in the San Juan basin. The stocking proposal has been reviewed by <br />experts on the species and the San Juan River from all signatorie:; to the Program, and has <br />been recommended for implementation by the Biology Committee of the Program. <br /> <br />Based upon the information in the EA, it has been determined that the decision to approve the <br />experimental stocking plan does not constitute a major Federal action having a significant <br />impact on the environment. Actions and impacts were evaluated using the best available data <br />and assumptions. <br /> <br /> <br />(f?/~ JY7fj <br />Date <br /> <br />C~;J{ ,') ti,' <br />.');/,;;1./ -,.:t./'a?~k?:>n <br />Regional Director/Region 2 <br />v." l <br /> <br />J~~7' <br />Date <br />