4.5 River Basins
and address issues common across the watershed in North Carolina. Current projects include fnding solutions for construction contractor training in erosion prevention BMPs. • Partner with Soil and Water Conservation District programs, such as the Agriculture Cost Share Program, as they are also efective partner programs for conservation in priority areas. • Continue working with Duke Energy, Brookfeld Energy, FERC, and other resource agencies and cooperators to fulfll relicense settlement agreements and other mitiga- tion for hydropower impacts from Little Tennessee Basin projects. • Investigate, implement, and support (as appropriate) programs that are directed at candidate or listed species recovery (e.g., Candidate Conservation Agreements, Habitat Conservation Planning, Safe Harbor agreements). • Te entire Little Tennessee River Basin across North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee state boundaries has been designated a Native Fish Conservation Area by the Fisheries Conservation Foundation, and an interstate and multi-partner steering committee with topical work groups has been established to identify and cooperatively address basinwide issues. More information is available online: http://www.fshconserve. org/2013/01/31/native-fsh-conservation-areas-nfcas/ and http://www.fshconserve. org/2013/06/03/rivers-of-success-campaign-native-fsh-conservation-areas/.
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