Sec. 2. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 2 DEFINITIONS As used in this Act: ####
(1)The term “**Recovery Implementation Programs**” means the intergovernmental programs established pursuant to the 1988 Cooperative Agreement for the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin dated September 29, 1987, and the 1992 Cooperative Agreement for the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program dated October 21, 1992, as the agreements may be amended and extended by the parties thereto. ####
(2)The term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of the Interior. ####
(3)The term “**Upper Division States**” means the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. ####
(4)The term “**Colorado River Storage Project**” or “**storage project**” means those dams, reservoirs, power plants, and other appurtenant project facilities and features authorized by and constructed in accordance with the Colorado River Storage Project Act (43 U.S.C. 620 et seq.). ####
(5)The term “**capital projects**” means planning, design, permitting or other compliance, pre-construction activities, construction, construction management, and replacement, rehabilitation, and repair of facilities, and the acquisition of interests in land or water, as necessary to carry out the Recovery Implementation Programs. ####
(6)The term “**facilities**” includes facilities for the genetic conservation or propagation of the endangered or threatened fishes, those for the restoration of floodplain habitat or fish passage, those for control or supply of instream flows, those for protection of critical habitat, those for preventing entrainment of fish in water diversions, and those for the control of nonnative fishes. ####
(7)The term “**interests in land and water**” includes, but is not limited to, leases and easements, and enforcement, or other agreements protecting instream flows. ####
(8)The term “**base funding**” means funding for operation and maintenance of capital projects, implementation of recovery actions other than capital projects, monitoring and research to evaluate the need for or effectiveness of any recovery action, and program management, as necessary to carry out the Recovery Implementation Programs. Base funding also includes annual funding provided under the terms of the Recovery Implementation Programs. ####
(9)The term “**recovery actions other than capital projects**” includes short-term acquisitions for interests in land, water, and facilities; the reintroduction or augmentation of endangered or threatened fish stocks; and the removal, translocation, or other control of nonnative fishes, as approved under the Recovery Implementation Programs. ####
(10)The term “**depletion charge**” means a one-time contribution in dollars per acre-foot to be paid to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service pursuant to the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin based on the average annual new depletion by each project.