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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Draft Biological Opinion on the Proposed Relicensing of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project

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Title: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Draft Biological Opinion on the Proposed Relicensing of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Date Created and/or Issued: 10/22/07
Publication Information: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Abstract: FERC issued docket number p-2082:This document transmits the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (Service) biological opinion, based on the Service's review of the Project and effects on the federally listed endangered Lost River sucker (Delistes luxatus) (LRS), endangered shortnose sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris) (SNS), threatened bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), threatened slender Orcutt grass (Orcuttia tenuis), endangered Applegate's milkvetch (Astragalus applegatei), endangered Gentner's fritillary (Fritillaria gentneri), threatened bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), threatened northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), threatened California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii), threatened western snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus), threatened Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), and threatened gray wolf (Canis lupus), and critical habitat for the northern spotted owl and bull trout. In addition, this document further transmits the conference opinion regarding the proposed critical habitat for the listed sucker species. This opinion is based on information provided in your September 25, 2006, Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Hydropower License. This opinion evaluates the effects of implementing the proposed action, in accordance with section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (ESA).
Type: text
Form/Genre: digital copy
Identifier: ark:/86086/n23778kw
398
Subject: Ecology and river restoration
Fisheries and fish passage
Legal and policy
Dams
Dam retirement
Place: Klamath River, CA
Klamath River, OR
Copco No.1 Dam
Copco No.2 Dam
Iron Gate Dam
J.C. Boyle Dam
Keno Dam
Link River Dam
United States
Relation: http://elibrary.ferc.gov/IDMWS/search/intermediate.asp?link_desc=yes&slcfilelist=11486300:0

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