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<br />. I ~. <br />~.jj ().. I"'l!:[ ~ <br />.\. ,;...1..Ut..I'..;I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Electric Association the water rights decreed in Case Nos. <br /> <br />, Water Division No.4, Colorado, and to <br /> <br />purchase from the City of Delta the water rights decreed in <br /> <br />Case Nos. , Water Division No.4, Colorado. <br /> <br />(2) The Secretary is hereby authorized to <br /> <br />donate or otherwise make available said water rights to the <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board for the purpose of pre- <br /> <br />serving the natural environment to a reasonable degree if <br /> <br />such preservation will also protect the scenic, recreational, <br /> <br />fish and wildlife values of the designated segment of the <br /> <br />lower Gunnison River including the maintenance of an instream <br /> <br />flow of not less than 300 cubic feet per second in the <br /> <br />Gunnison River immediately below diversions to the Gunnison <br /> <br />Tunnel, Uncompahgre Project. The Secretary may not use the <br /> <br />acquired water rights for any other purpose. <br /> <br />(3) In full payment for the acquisition of <br /> <br />said water rights, the Secretary shall release at no charge <br /> <br />up to <br /> <br />acre-feet per year for <br /> <br />years to <br /> <br />the Colorado-Ute Electric Association from the Blue Mesa <br /> <br />Reservoir, Wayne N. Aspinall Unit, Colorado River Storage <br /> <br />project, and up to <br /> <br />acre-feet per year for <br /> <br />years to the City of Delta from said Unit. <br /> <br />(4) The cost of such water rights acquisition <br /> <br />shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under Section B of <br /> <br />the 1956 Colorado River Storage Project Act as an acquisition <br /> <br />-4- <br />