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<br />" <br /> <br />04G8 <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br />or entity use the power drop fro~ such water at any time, such <br />agreement ror such use shall be subject to the regulation and <br />approval of the Secretary of the Interior of the United Stc<tes. <br /> <br />"(c) The City and County of ~enver and the City of Colorado <br />Springs will at all times bypass water in quanti ties sufficient to <br />meet all legal calls of dOvll1streiJlt1 water rights on the Blue River, <br />and within Colorado below the confluence of that stream with the <br />main stream of the Colorado Piver, having priorities earlier than <br />the respective priority dates of said cities. This obligation <br />adequately to provide water for the priorities on the Blue River <br />and the Colorado River antedating the respective priority dates <br />of said two cities, may be fulfilled by replacement stora.ge by <br />and on the Blue River or on the Williams River, subject neverthe- <br />less to the requirement that the parties provide that the plans <br />for replaceinent st02'ac:re will first have been approved by the <br />Secretary of the Interior or his designated representative. <br />Insofar as any proposed replacement storage on Williams River will <br />adversely affect the Parshall Unit of the Cliffs Divide Projeot <br />duly authorized representatives of the Peti.tioners in Civil Actions <br />Hos. 5016 and 5017 shall have the'right to also approve the pro- <br />posal or submit it to this Court for adjudication as to legal <br />rights. The \-Jater to be exchanged shall be on hand and in storage <br />",hen the exchange is proposed. Any exchange approved shall not <br />relieve said cities from the obliqation to deliver electrical <br />energy for the amount of ",ater diverted fyom the Blue River. <br /> <br />"(d) The City and County of Denver and the City of Co16rado <br />Springs agree to hold harmless th~ United States of America for <br />the full amount of any claims of any kind or character which may <br />be finally determined by reason of their diversions from the Blue <br />River. <br /> <br />"(e) To the extent that the importation and the use of water <br />from the Co10rado River System, over and above the quantity of water <br />diverted from that souroe during the last year being October 1st, <br />1954 to September 3D, 1955, by reason of the return flow fro'Tl the' <br />municipal systems of said cities increase the amount of water said <br />cities may lawfully utilize from all sources in order to supply <br />their municipal needs, through exchange or otherwise, to that same <br />extent the riqht to divert water horn the Blue River shall be <br />correspondingiy decreased, if such exchanc:re is not exeroised; <br />provided, however, that the obligation to utilize water from the <br />Colorado River System by exohanc:re or othenTise shall be subject to <br />the conditions, limitations, and safeguards as set forth in the <br />follovTing subdivision, the sa'Je beinc:r s1.\b:Ji vision (fl of thi s <br />pClfagrdph. <br /> <br />-:::so .....;,.;,_. ;..,.-" '.;... <br />