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5. The Service will notify the River District and CWCB annually, no later than July 15, of its requested initial pattern of delivery of the Fish Pool water to the Subject Reach. Thereafter, the Service will notify the River District and CWCB as soon as possible by phone or by fax of any changes to the pattern of delivery to the Subject Reach. 6. The Fish Pool releases to the Subject Reach will be made during the period from March 1 through December 1 annually as requested by the Service pursuant to the CWCB MOA. The releases of the Fish Pool water will be limited to a maximum of 200 cfs based upon channel capacity constraints established by the River District. Releases from the Fish Pool will be measured at a u.S. Geological survey gage below the outlet works of Wolford Mountain Reservoir 7. The Service agrees to coordinate releases during the months of July through October with releases it will be requesting from Ruedi Reservoir. The Service will give priority to delivery of Fish Pool water at times when Ruedi releases to the Subject Reach would cause locally unacceptable flow conditions on the Fryingpan River below Ruedi Reservoir. B. The Bureau of Land Management shall include a condition in the Permits for Wolford Mountain Reservoir enlargement that will state: "If in the future the River District does not provide 10 percent of the storable inflow to the Fish Pool (provided that space exists in the Pool) in any given year the Service may re-initiate section 7 consultation on Wolford Mountain Reservoir under section 7 (a) (2) ESA. Accounting would be on an annual basis with progress reports provided to the Service bi-weekly from April 1 through October 31." C. The River District commits to a coordination process with the Service and Reclamation to provide flows for the endangered Colorado River fish species to and through the reach of the Colorado River from the Grand Valley Irrigation company Diversion Dam downstream to the confluence of the Colorado River with the Gunnison River. D. The River District will continue to participate, through operation of Wolford Mountain Reservoir and technical support in the Recovery Program coordinated reservoir operations project as described in the Recovery Implementation Program Recovery Action associated Scope of Work; provided that such participation can be accomplished under Colorado law and water rights administration in a manner that does not diminish the