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oGS~ authorized re-operations of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project facilities and a re- operations contract has been executed with an eligible entity. The Winter Water Spill Credit would apply to spills of Winter Water stored in Pueblo Reservoir by the Direct Flow Applicants of the Winter Water Storage Program. Those entities are listed below: Bessemer Irrigating Ditch Company High Line Canal Company Oxford Farmers Ditch Company Catlin Canal Company Las Animas Consolidated Canal Company Riverside Dairy Ditch The West Pueblo Ditch is also a Direct Flow Applicant of the Winter Water Storage Program. West Pueblo Ditch water rights have now been changed to non- agricultural purposes and West Pueblo Ditch will not be allowed any benefits of the Winter Water Spill Credit. If and when other Applicants obtain a decree which changes their water rights to non-agricultural purposes, they will no longer be allowed any benefits of the Winter Water Spill Credit. The Winter Water Spill Credit will apply to Winter Water stored in Pueblo Reservoir by the Holbrook Mutual Irrigation Company, an Off-Channel Applicant of the Winter Water Storage Program. In a year that a spill occurs, the Holbrook Mutual Irrigation Company must have maximized its storage of Winter Water in its own off-channel storage vessels in order to qualify for the Winter Water Spill Credit. The Winter Water Spill Credit will not apply to Winter Water stored by other Off- Channel Applicants of the Winter Water Storage Program. The Winter Water Spill Credit will only apply to Winter stored water spilled from Pueblo Reservoir in accordance with the order of spill as prescribed in Amendment No.4 to Contract No. 5-07-70-W0086. It will not apply to any releases of Winter Water requested by entities or as required by the Winter Water Storage Program Decree. The Winter Water Spill Credit can be used as a credit towards purchase of Project Water or as a credit towards future Winter Water Storage charges. The Winter Water Spill Credit may be carried forward indefinitely by an eligible entity until that entity's next purchase of Project water or Winter Water storage. Historical records of the Winter Water Storage Program indicates that eligible Applicants' average storage in Pueblo Reservoir under the Winter Water Storage Program was approximately 48,000 acre-feet and maximum storage in Pueblo Reservoir under the Winter Water Storage Program was approximately 62,000 8