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<br />e <br /> <br />.fComplexity: <br /> <br />. Upper Colorado River Basin covers 108,000 <br />square miles or 69 million aCfes <br /> <br />. Hundreds of miles of fivefs and streams <br /> <br />. Four endangered fish species <br /> <br />. Potential impacts on hundfeds of municipalities, <br />irrigators, and industries <br /> <br />. No agreement on conclusions based on science <br />and data <br /> <br />.f Unanimous consensus was required to resolve <br />conflicts. All of the parties had to agree or there <br />was no acceptable resolution of the conflict. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Values/interests that could not be comDromised <br /> <br />1. Interstate compacts that allocate water to <br />states must be respected. <br /> <br />2. State water rights that allocate water to <br />specific users within each state must be <br />respected. <br /> <br />3. Costs must be equitably distributed. <br /> <br />4. ESA compliance must be achieved. <br /> <br />5. Federal water and hydropower projects must <br />continue to operate, per authorized purposes. <br /> <br />6. States must retain control of non-endangered <br />fish/sport species. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4 <br />