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<br />IJecember 15, 1995 <br /> <br />COORDINATED <3.UGMENTATION PROGRAM PRINCIPLES <br /> <br />To coordinalG one or more Augmentation Plallli (or well users witl1ln ttle SOUth~l$tern <br />Colorado Wiler Conservancy District ("SECWCD~), Uld !Sthet' well user; between <br />Pueblo Reservoir and John Martin ReseNoir. the Southoastern Colorado Willer Actlvity <br />Enterprise ("SECWAE"), the Arkansas Valley Groundwater Uset5 Association <br />("AGUA"). and the Colorado Water Protective Development ASsociation (~CWPDA") <br />igrce 10 the following Principles: <br /> <br />1. TIle Coordinated AUllmenlation Program will facilitate work between the <br />S~CWAE, CWPDAand AQUA. Olller groups and Individl,lals may also work with <br />SECWAE under these Principles. <br /> <br />2. Individuals or groups, includinll CWPDA alld AGUA. may apply to SECW AE to <br />pIIrchase Rewrn Flow water for U$C in an augmenultion plan or substitute supply <br />plan. Applications must include t~ proposed augmentlltlon or substilU1e supply <br />plan. and mu.,t comply Wilh all Division 2 Groundwater Rules lUld RegulatioDS; all <br />reQ\lirementi arising our of Kansas v. Colorado: all SECWAE Plan Approval <br />St8,Ddard, and ProcedUres. Return Flow Waler Sale Policies, and Augmentation <br />Water Sale Procedures and Application Process; and any U.S, reclamation laws and . <br />regulations, SECWCD principles, policies, procedures and Contract requiremenlS. <br />and other Slale aDd federal laws and regUlations whiCh may appl)'; all as thcy may <br />be amended (together beiug called "Requirements"). <br /> <br />3. Return flow waters from lhe Fryinllllan-Arkallsu Project will be cold annually by <br />the SECWAE. lIlI available. to AOUA and CWPDA and other enllties or individuals <br />(or use in \heir well Augmentation Plans, subj~l to municiplllities' and eligible <br />dllCh companies' (nOle list) first right of refusal to purchase return flows from use <br />of Project Waler allocated annually 10 them. Such municipalities. and well users <br />under the eligible ditch companies. acting through their ditch company Board. mil)' <br />exercise their tirst rlghlS of refusal on their own behalf. or through entities whose <br />augmentation plans bonor IhOse righlS. Sales of all available agricultural Retum <br />Flow walers will be apportioned among well users within llje District who <br />participale in this Coordinated Augmentation Program. on II per acre basis Or other <br />eqllitable basis determined by the SECWAE Boud of Directors. Paymenl to the <br />Enterprise will be made in advance of any deliveries. for augmentation or substitute <br />supply plans. <br /> <br />4. Sales of ProjecI Rerurn Flows 10 the augmemallon plans or subilitule supply plans <br />o( CWPDA. AGUA. and other enlities or indiViduals will bo made only after <br />