What is the proposed Federal action that the final biological opinion analyzes?
The proposed Federal action is the funding and implementation of a cooperative, basinwide Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (Program) for the four target species (whooping crane, interior least tern, piping plover, pallid sturgeon) which use riverine and nearby habitat in Nebraska. A Final Environmental Impact Statement released in late May of 2006 identified the Governance Committee Alternative as the preferred alternative, and the Services biological opinion specifically reviewed that description of the proposed Program. What did the final biological opinion for the proposed Platte River Recovery Implementation Program conclude? The Services biological opinion concluded that the proposed Program is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the federally endangered whooping crane, interior least tern, and pallid sturgeon, or the federally threatened piping plover, bald eagle, or western prairie fringed orchid. The proposed Program is also not likely to destroy or
