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e e e INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION UNITED STATES AND MEXICO Minute No. 306 EI Paso, Texas December 12, 2000 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNITED STATES - MEXICO STUDIES FOR FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING THE RIPARIAN AND ESTUARINE ECOLOGY OF THE L1MITROPHE SECTION OF THE COLORADO RIVER AND ITS ASSOCIATED DELTA The Commission met in the offices of the United States Section in EI Paso, Texas, at J 1 :00 a.m. on December 12, 2000, to consider a conceptual framework for coopetation by the United States and Mexico through the development of studies and reconunendations concerning the riparian and estuarine ecology of the Colorado River in its limitrophe section and its associated delta. The Commissioners observed that studies are currently being performed by the Commission to improve; the capacity of the Colorado River channel to convey normal and flood waters in the 24 mile (36 kilometer) limitrophe ~ection of the Colorado River under the authority of Article 13 of the United States. Mexico Treaty for "Utilization of Waters ofthe Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande," signed February 3, 1944. Studies are also currently being performed by the Commission on the preservation of the channel of the Colorado River in its limitrophe section under the terms of Article IV of the United States - Mexico Treaty to Resolve Pending Boundary Differences and Maintain the Rio Grande and the Colorado River as the International Boundary, signed November 23, 1970. The Commissioners referred to the Commission's binational technical task force (hereinafter binational technical task force) that was established to facilitate studies concerning the Colorado River delta in Mexico, as well as water flows to the Santa Clara Slough which are discharged to Mexico under IBWC Minute No. 242, entitled "Permanent and Definitive Solution to the International Problem cfSalinity of the Colorado River," signed August 30, 1973. They made note of the United States- Mexico consultations concerning the propo'sed United States modification of its domestic surplus water guidelines. currently being conducted under the auspices of the Commission. The Commissioners noted that each country has laws and regulations concerning the preservation of riparian and estuarine system habitat that are executed by authorities that are provided such responsibility in their respective country. The Commissioners recognized that collaboration is growing between those authorities as well as between scientific, academic and non-govenunent organizations in the two countries which have an interest in preserving the Colorado River delta ecology. They observed that some studies conducted by these groups have provh:!ed some definition I