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r: , •~,- ~ r• ~ • <br />A <br />1. Signing of a cooperative agreement to implement the Recovery Program. <br />2. Resolutions supporting the Recovery Program made by water user <br />groups in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and several mador environmental <br />groups. <br />3. Active participation by all cooperators in implementing the Recovery <br />Program, including meeting all funding commitments and seeking funds from <br />Congress necessary to implement the. program. <br />4. The expenditure of 521.8 million from FY 89 to FY 94 to implement the <br />Recovery Program work plans: These work plans have provided funding for <br />numerous high priority recovery activities and studies related to the <br />endangered Colorado River fishes. <br />5. Commitment by members of the Recovery Program to develop and implement in <br />a timely manner the Recovery Implementation Program Recovery Action Plan, <br />which wi]l give priority consideration to implementing recovery actions <br />which will result 1n significant protection and improvement of the <br />endangered fish populations in their habitat. <br />6. Execution of an enforcement agreement between the Service and the State <br />of Colorado to protect instream flows acquired under the Recovery Program <br />for the endangered fishes. <br />7. Finalization of a policy by the Colorado Water Conservation Board for <br />protection of instream flow until uncertainty concerning habitat needs <br />and compact development are resolved. <br />8. Environmental compT.ianee and final design of the fish passageway at <br />Redlands Dam on the Gunnison River were initiated. Construction is <br />scheduled for completion in April 1996. This passageway will open up <br />50 miles of historical habitat to the endangered fish. <br />9. On the Yampa River, agricultural diversion structures were identified <br />which may impede fish migration. Remediation of the two structures <br />identified as impediments is scheduled to .begin in FY 96. <br />10. The Colorado Water Conservation board and the Colorado River Water <br />Conservation District signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop a <br />water management and Flow protection plan for the Yampa River Basin. <br />I1. During 1994, the Recovery Program completed an inventory of Floodplain <br />habitats for 870.miles of the Colorado, Green, Gunnison, Yampa, and White <br />Rivers. From the inventoried habitats, sites have been (and will <br />continue to be) selected to visit and screen for restoration potential. <br />Those sites which pass the screening tests will be considered as <br />candidates for restoration. Seven sites in the Green and Colorado Rivers <br />are scheduled for restoration beginning in 1995 and 1996. <br />