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S. Rept. 116-146 1 (2019-10-24)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxacvi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. -OVERNMENT INFORMATION Op 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 99-010