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<br />N <br />CJ1 <br />A <br />C,;1 <br /> <br />December 1, 1998 <br /> <br /> <br /><::> <br />,-) <br /> <br />Report of the Colorado State Engineer <br /> <br />Offset Account Operations <br /> <br />November 1, 1997 to October 31, 1998 <br /> <br />An Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir was authorized by the Resolution <br />Concerning an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping <br />dated March 17, 1997 ("Resolution") and by the Resolution Concerning an Offset <br />Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping As Amended March 30, <br />1998 ("Amended Resolution"), <br /> <br />This report summarizes the operations conducted using the Offset Account for the <br />period November 1, 1997 through October 31, 1998 and has been prepared pursuant <br />to paragraph 11 the Amended Resolution, <br /> <br />At 0000 hours, November 1, 1997 the Offset Account contained 5356.98 acre-feet. <br />From then until January 17, 1998, when the Offset Account completed spilling from <br />John Martin Reservoir, there were no deliveries to or releases from the Offset Account. <br />In accordance with paragraph 9 of the Amended Resolution, the Colorado State <br />Engineer and the Kansas Chief Engineer agreed that the 500 acre-feet of fully <br />consumable water that must be delivered by Colorado or Colorado water users to the <br />Offset Account as a prerequisite for deliveries to the Offset Account could be delivered <br />at a time after April 1 , 1998. From June 28 through June 30, 1998, 500 acre-feet of fully <br />consumable water was delivered to the Offset Account to satisfy the Storage Charge <br />prerequisite for using the account. Copies of the correspondence to determine the date <br />of this delivery are included in Section 3. <br /> <br />The other operational considerations modified by the Amended Resolution were the <br />provisions for determining net depletions to usable Stateline flows described in <br />paragraph 5B of the Amended Resolution, <br /> <br />In Section 1, a monthly summary of the contents of the Offset Account is provided in <br />Table 1, A summary of the subaccounts of the Offset Account is provided in Tables A <br />through B.2, The outline preceding the tables in Section 1 provides an explanation of <br />the purp,ose of each subaccount. <br /> <br />Section 2 of this report contains the daily accounting records, by month, for all <br />subaccounts in the Offset Account. <br /> <br />