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• 12 The current range of the razorback sucker in the Colorado River extends upstream to Rifle, Colorado. Most razorback suckers captured in the Grand Valley area have been located in flooded gravel-pit ponds adjacent to the river. However, Osmundson and Kaeding (1989) documented razorback sucker movement in various river habitats in the Grand Valley area. Additional surveys since 1988 have documented razorback suckers in riverside ponds as far upstream as river mile 235 near Rifle, Colorado (Burdick 1992). Humpback Chub Humpback chub generally do not make migrational movements in the upper Colorado River and tend to reside throughout the year within a limited reach of river. Humpback chub are found inhabiting narrow, deep canyon areas and are relatively restricted in distribution. They seldom leave their canyon habitat (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1982). While humpback chub are regularly found dispersed in the Green and Yampa Rivers, the only major populations of humpback chub known to exist in the Upper Basin are located in Black Rocks and Westwater Canyons on the Colorado River. Critical Habitat Critica] habitat has been designated within the humpback chub's historical range in the following sections of the Upper Basin (59 F.R. 13374). • Colorado. Moffat County. The Yampa River from the boundary of Dinosaur National Monument in T. 6 N., R. 99 W., section 27 (6th Principal Meridian) to the confluence with the Green River in T. 7 N., R. 103 W., section 28 (6th Principal Meridian). Utah. Uintah County: and Colorado. Moffat County. The Green River from the confluence with the Yampa River in T. 7 N., R. 103 W., section 28 (6th Principal Meridian) to the southern boundary of Dinosaur National Monument in T. 6 N., R. 24 E., section 30 (Salt Lake Meridian). Utah. Uintah and Grand Counties. The Green River (Desolation and Gray Canyons) from Sumners Amphitheater in T. 12 S., R. 18 E., section 5 (Bait Lake Meridian) to Swasey's Rapid in T. 20 S., R. 16 E., section 3 (Salt Lake Meridian). Utah, Grand County: and Colorado. Mesa County. The Colorado River from Black Rocks in T. 10 S., R. 104 W., section 25 (6th Principal Meridian) to Fish ford in T. 21 S., R. 24 E., section 35 (Salt Lake Meridian). Utah, Garfield and San Juan Counties. The Colorado River from Brown Betty Rapid in T. 30 S., R. 18 E., section 34 (Salt Lake Meridian) to Imperial Canyon in T. 31 5., R. 17 E., section 28 (Salt Lake Meridian). C: