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Cooperative Planning
The strength
of the Habitat Conservation Division is our early participation in ongoing
and proposed planning efforts and provision of technical
assistance to various programs, agencies, local governments,
and private landowners.
Planning
efforts in which we participate are numerous, including:
- General ecosystem-level
planning like Coordinated Resource Management Plans (CRMP) and community
based watershed planning efforts.
- Review of water rights
proposals.
- Review of federal,
state, and local agency planning and environmental documents.
Coordination with Federal Agencies
The Fish
and Wildlife Coordination Act provides the basic authority for the Service's involvement
in evaluating impacts to fish and wildlife from proposed water resource development projects.
The three branches of the Habitat Conservation Division coordinate with
Federal agencies that construct, license or permit water resource development projects:
National
Environmental Policy Act
We review and
comment to federal agencies, including other programs in the Fish and Wildlife
Service, on planning processes and documentation associated with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
We participate in NEPA
processes and facilitates completion of associated documentation, permitting,
and compliance processes.
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Sacramento River
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