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371(~ 22 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR, COLO. availab]e to said decreed rights exeept for stream depletion resll](,ing from diversions by this prolect to the Arkansas Yalley. (b) The regulator'y eapaeity of Huedi Reservoir, and any reservoir constructed in additIOn thereto, is that portioll of the total reservoir capaeity not. needed for replacement purposes. 'VnteT stored in such category may be sold or leased by the United States to water users in Colorado for any pllrpose recoglllzed by the laws. of the Ulllted States: PJ'o"ided. That the sale of water for use outsIde the natural basin of the Colorado River cau only be made with the consent of the Colorado Rh'er 'Vater Conservl1tion DistTict. Charges for the use of sllch water shall be established by the Secretary of the Inte- rior by appropriate contrael in accordnnce wit,h the payment ability of such water users. 7. The primary pnrpose of Huedi Reservoir, and any reservoir eonst.ructed in addit.ion t.hereto, is to furnish, to the extent. of it.s capncity, in like Innnner as if the. project were const.ructed by a water conservancy district organized pursuant to t.he laws of the State of Colorado, the. water required for the protection of westem Colorado water users by the provisions of Colorado Revised St.atutes 1953, 14~-6-13, reading as follows: However, any works or f"cilith~ro: plnnnP.<l" nod de~igned for the exportntiun of water from the natural basin of the Colorado Rh'er null it~ tributaries in Colorado, by any dIstrict created under tbIs article, shall he subject to the proYlsions of the Colorado River cornpnct and the Boulder Canyon ProjPCt Act. AllY such works or facilities shull be de6igned. cOD!'<tructed, nnd operated in 9ueb a manner that the pref.;el1t appropriations of wfiter, Ilnd ill addition thereto prospective uses nf water for irrigation and other beneficial consumll- the-use purposes, including cOIlsumptive moles for domestil~. mining, and indus- t.rial purposes. within the natural hnsin or the Colorado River in the Stute of Colorado. from which water is exported, will not be impairerl nor Increased in cost nt tIle expense of tbe water user~ within the natural basin. The flleili- tie.!'! flnd oth~r means fur the accollllllh:hment of !;nid purpose shull be ineor- porflted in, and rnnde H part of, flny projeet. Jllnn!ol for the- Il'XTIOl'tatioD of water from saId natural hag;n in Colorado. 8. Project diversions from Lime Cree_1\: shall he ma(l~ onl" ill tllP months of May and .June of eneh year, unless thp Colorado River 'Vater Conservation District shall, by writte.n communication, ad,~ise the Colorado State engineer to the- cOJltrary. n, The part.ies signatory to UIe operating: princ.iples agree that the respective decrees which may be or ha,"e been awarded to the parties hereto as II part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project find Rasalt. project. shall be administered by the propel' oflieials of the State of Colol'llflo in accordance wit,h the applicable laws of the State of Colorado, and more parhcularly by the following principles and procedures, to Wlt.:. (1) That. the demanl] on t.he waters available under such dpcrees shall be allocated in the following sequence.: (Il) For ,liversion to the, Arkansas Yalley through the collec- !,ion system llnd the facil,it.ies of the Frying:pan-Ark~l-1lsas projf>..ct lJl nil (~1ll011Ilt f1ot, exeeedlIlg fin agg'regate of 120..000 acre~fe-e.t of wilt.er 111 :~n'y year, lll.1t. not. to e-xceed a. totnlnggregat.e of ~!3;}2.800 IHTe-feet III allY penod of ;H cOllseeutive yeaTS reckoned in con- t.inning' pI'og-ressi,.e sel'ie~ starting' with the'til'~.t. full year of di,er- :-iions, hath limitat.ions .herein being exclusive of i~o:\.ring Fork exehflllges as p,'ovjded 111 (c) below, and exclusive of diversions