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112TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 112-672
ENDANGERED FISH RECOVERY PROGRAMS EXTENSION
ACT OF 2012
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 6060]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6060) to amend Public Law 106-392 to maintain annual
base funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish recovery
programs through fiscal year 2019, having considered the same, re-
port favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 6060 is to amend Public Law 106-392 to
maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and San
Juan fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2019.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Upper Colorado and San Juan River basins, located in Wyo-
ming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, are key sources of
water and hydropower generation in the western United States.
The basins are also home to four species of fish-the Colorado
pikeminnow, the razorback sucker, the humpback chub and the
bonytail-that are listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The Upper Colorado and San Juan River Recovery Implementation
Programs, as authorized by Public Law 106-392, are two coopera-
tive programs that help provide ESA compliance for more than
2,000 federal, tribal, and non-federal water and power projects
while working to recover the four fish species. Participants include
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