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.. Colorado does have some specific suggestions for clarifying several of the recommendations as follows: . 1. Recommendation C [Enlarged fishery pool]: We understand Reclamation's desire to modify the recent amendment to change the point of reference for determining project impacts to John Martin Reservoir. However, Colorado does not view the January 26, 1996 resolution adopted by ARCA and the amendment to the Operating Principles attached thereto as Exhibit A as temporary. That amendment, which protects against interference to usable stateline flows, is still acceptable to Colorado. Colorado appreciates the assistance of Reclamation and the US Army Corps in allocating the excess space at Trinidad Reservoir to fishery and recreation uses and bringing about the necessary change in the Operating Principles. 2. Recommendation D [Stock water releases]: We do not believe it is necessary to reduce the District's stock water entitlement merely because the Hoehne Ditch's use for stock water has been curtailed. The basis for such a reduction should be better explained in the final report or else the limit should remain at 1,500 AF. The language regarding volumetric release should be clarified to make it clear that the District may bypass the entire reservoir inflow during certain periods of the winter so long as the total of such bypasses does not exceed the volumetric limit of 1,500 AF per year. 3. Recommendation E [District irrigable acres]: Colorado agrees that the District can not irrigate more than 19,499 acres in any year and needs to implement procedures for verification and assurance that this limit is being met. However the terminology used for the limitation needs to recognize that the District can properly have more irrigable acres under contract (we believe the correct number is 20,895 acres) so long as the necessary amount ofirrigable acres are fallowed each year and receive no water throughout that fallow year. . 4. Recommendations F [realtime irrigation requirement] & G[dit~h conyeyance loss de~~~nation]: Insofar as the Operating Principles require the District to determine irrigation-requirements at the farm headgate, Colorado agrees that the District should make such a determination in accordance with the current Operating Principles, or the Operating Principles must be amended to eliminate such a requirement. 5. Recommendation I [summer storage per substitute supply plan]: Colorado has no objection to clarifying in the Operating Principles that the District may proceed to implement conditions (d) and (e) of House Document No. 325 pursuant to existing procedures of Colorado water law. Colorado does not find anywhere that the current Operating Principles preclude such an option. Additionally, the language requiring water court approval should be deleted; it should be sufficient that the substitute supply plan complies with Colorado law. .