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\Jj'-:~ .-,; J . ~ , 1?, ;_h. I _'. <,-:~ ....~, ,!v~n~;g~~,~~in \..=,... 340 Lorey Drive Grand Junction, Colorado 81505 ewes OCT 2 3 1990 M E M 0 RAN DUM October 20, 1990 TO: Animas-LaPlata Committee: CWR&PDA: Richard Bratton, Andy Williams, John Porter; and Executive Director, Dan Law David Walker, Acting Director, Colorado Water Conservation Board , FROM: Ival V. Goslin, Engineer Consultant I RE: Activities related to ~he Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Agree~ent and construction of the Animas-LaPlata Project's endangered species problems. Since my last report dated August 18 on the above subject there have been a number of negotiation sessions and information conferences that have involved representatives of the States of Colorado and New Mexico, Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Indian Tribes (Ute Mountain Ute, Souttern Ute, Jicarilla Apache, Navajo), Southwestern Colorado Water Conservation District, the major cities of southwestern Colorado and northwestern ~e~ Mexico in the San Juan River Basin, et!l. Some of the higtlights of these meetings will be mentioned herein. ; ! /il \'". -,;. ;, ;t:1 "" ~ " I On August 21, a small conference was held in Denver to brief the attorneys for the Indian Tribes on the necessity for developing a "reasonable and prudent- alternative to the jeopardy no-alternative biological opinion of the Fish and Wildlife Service (F&WS) with respect to the endangered Colorado squawfish in the San Juan River downstream from Navajo Dam. Under the f&WS's no-alternative opinion, all water resource development in the San Juan Basin would have to cease. I