Utilization of Power Revenues for Annual Base Funding of the Upper Colorado River and San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Programs: A Report to Congress Submitted by the Secretary of the Interior.

摘要

The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (Upper Colorado Recovery Program) and the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program (San Juan Recovery Program) were established under cooperative agreements as multi-agency partnerships in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Recovery program partners include the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; Bureau of Reclamation; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Bureau of Land Management; National Park Service; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Southern Ute Indian Tribe; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; Jicarilla Apache Nation; Navajo Nation; environmental organizations; water users; and power customers. The shared goal of these recovery programs is to recover populations of endangered humpback chub, bonytail, Colorado pikeminnow, and razorback sucker while water use and development continues to meet human needs. Actions of the recovery programs provide Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance for more than 1,800 Federal, tribal, and non-Federal water projects depleting more than 3 million acre-feet of water per year in the Colorado and San Juan rivers and their tributaries in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico.