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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT A <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION <br /> <br />ASPINALL UNIT <br />COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT <br /> <br />.AGREEMENT AMONG THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, <br />THE COLORADO STATE ENGINEER, <br /> <br />THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, <br />AND <br /> <br />THE UPPER GUNNISON RIVER WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT. <br /> <br />FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF WATER PURSUANT TO THE SUBORDINATION <br />OF WAYNE N. ASPINALL UNIT WATER RIGHTS WITHIN THE <br />UPPER GUNNISON RIVER BASIN <br /> <br />THIS AGREEMENT is made this 21st day of December, 1998, between the United <br />States of America (the United States), acting through the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant <br />to The Reclamation Act of 1902 (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat.388) and all acts <br />amendatory and supplementary thereto, including the Colorado River Storage Project Act <br />of April 11 , 1956 (70 Stat. 105), the Colorado State Engineer, the Colorado River Water <br />Conservation District (River District), organized and existing pursuant to the laws of the <br />State of ~olorado, with its office and principal place of business at Glenwood Springs, <br />Colorado; and the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District (Upper Gunnison <br />District), organized and existing pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado with its office <br />and principal place of business at Gunnison, Colorado; <br /> <br />WITNESSETH, THAT: <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the United States constructed the Curecanti Unit, now known as the <br />Wayne N. Aspinall Unit (Aspinall Unit), of the Colorado River Storage Project, including the <br />Blue Mesa, Morrow Point and Crystal Dams and Reservoirs, for the purpose, among other <br />things, of regulating the flows of the Colorado River to permit the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin States to more fully utilize their allocation of Colorado River waters, as set forth in <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact; and <br />