Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act of 2024

This bill reauthorizes existing programs to protect endangered and threatened fish species in the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins through 2031. It extends annual funding for capital projects ($50 million per year, adjusted for inflation) and annual base operations ($80 million total over 8 years, split as $52.9 million for the Upper Colorado and $27.1 million for the San Juan). The bill updates legal definitions to include "threatened" species and clarifies how funds from federal agencies (like power revenues) and non-federal partners (states, tribes, water users) can be used. It directly affects the Bureau of Reclamation, the Upper Colorado River Basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming), and entities participating in the recovery programs. The funding continues the existing 1987 and 1992 cooperative agreements without altering their environmental goals.