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U.S. -OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 268
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-146
PLATTE RIVER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM
EXTENSION ACT
OCTOBER 24, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 990]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 990) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to participate in the implementation of the Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program First Increment Extension for threatened
and endangered species in the Central and Lower Platte River
Basin, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the
bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 990 is to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
(Secretary) to continue the cooperative effort among the Federal
and non-Federal entitites through the implementation of the Platte
River Recovery Implementation Program First Increment Exten-
sion for threatened and endangered species in the Central and
Lower Platte River Basin.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Platte River Recovery and Implementation Program (PRRIP
or Program) is a partnership between the Department of the Inte-
rior (DOI) and the states of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming
aimed at recovering endangered species and complying with the
Endangered Species Act within the Central and Lower Platte
basin. DOI entered into a cooperative agreement with these states
in 1997, and in 2006 the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) re-
leased a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, the
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