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".;>-".,r~,-" 30 <.0 (Q oqi. ?~ 3. Storage in post-compact reservoirs and diversions of water decreed o ':'J for beneficial use for less than the entire year are orohibited during the months of January, February, March, November and December (110). 4. The 10,000 acre foot credit contained in Article III of the Rio Grande River Compact was to be allocated to each river system on the same percentage as each river system's delivery requirement determined by Article III bore to Colorado's total commitment (lIE). 5. Except for certain uses such as stock or domestic use, pumping would be limited to five days a week during 1976 and thereafter reduced one day per week for each year until 1981 when all pumping would be cur- tailed. Drains and other similar structures were to be treated as wells for the purposes of the rules and regulations (IIIC). 6. Pumping from the wells would not be curtailed if the wells were operating pursuant to a decreed plan of augmentation, or to a decree as an alternative point of diversion, or as a decreed changed point of diver- sion. Also, pumping could continue if the well could stand upon its own priority date or drew water that was not in the unconsolidated alluvial aquifer to sand, gravel and other sedimentary materials or was not hydro- logically connected thereto (1110). As previously stated, 75 separate protests were filed against the proposed rules and regulations. Upon request of the Judge, briefs, dis- cussing points of law, were submitted. A hearing was set for May 28, 1976 to permit the State Engineer to discuss the submitted exhibits. This hearing was cancelled by the Judge. But on June 23, 1976, without holding a hearing to discuss any of the factual disputes in the matter, Judge Donald Smith issued an order which dealt only with the legal issues in- volved in the State Engineer's proposed rules and regulstions. The order