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<br />e <br /> <br />000278 <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />that otherwise would have flowed down the river unused. This water could then <br />be released to supplem ent irrigation supplies during periods of low stream flow, <br />to bring additional lands under irrigation, and to supply domestic uses. <br /> <br />13. In order to compensate West Slope interests for the detrimental impacts of the <br />transmountain diversion of Colorado River water, Senate Document 80 required <br />Reclamation, among other things, to construct Green Mountain Reservoir as a <br />feature of the C-BT Project. Senate Document 80 requires that ""Green Mountain <br />Reservoir. . . shall be constructed and maintained . . . with a capacity of <br />152,000 acre feet of water." Senate Document 80 at 3 (emphasis added). This <br />storage capacity is divided into two "pools," 52,000 acre feet to provide <br />replacement in Western Colorado of the water which would be usable there ifnot <br />withheld or diverted to the East Slope by the C-BT Project ("replacement pool") <br />and 100,000 acre feet to produce power and to be made available, without <br />charge, to satisfY present andfuture water needs of the West Slope <br />(""compensatory pool"). Senate Document 80, ""Manner of Operation of Project <br />Facilities and Auxiliary Features," paragraphs (a)-(c) (emphasis added), Ex A. <br /> <br />14. Green Mountain Reservoir was constructed by Reclamation on the Blue River, a <br />tributary of the Colorado River, a few miles south of Kremmling, Colorado. <br />Green Mountain Reservoir has an actual storage capacity of approximately <br />154,000 acre-feet of water. <br /> <br />15. Senate Document 80 mandates that Green Mountain Reservoir have sufficient <br />capacity so that 152,000 acre feet of water are available for actual use. Senate <br />Document 80 states that the full 52,000 acre foot replacement pool "shall" be <br />available, and that the 100,000 acre foot pool "shall be used" for power, <br />irrigation, and domestic purposes, and ""all of said stored water shall be <br />released." Id. <br /> <br />16. Senate Document 80 further reiterates that releasing the entire 100,000 acre foot <br />pool to West Slope users is mandatory: <br /> <br />Said 100,000 acre-feet shall be stored primarily for power <br />purposes, and the water released shall be available, without <br />charge, to supply existing irrigation and domestic <br />appropriations of water . . . and for future use for domestic <br />purposes and in the irrigation of lands thereafter to be <br />brought under cultivation in Western Colorado. Id. <br />(Emphasis added.) <br /> <br />17. Senate Document 80 also recognizes that the 52,000 acre feet replacement pool <br />can be used to fulfill the requirements of the compensatory pool. It provides that <br />under low runoff conditions, the full replacement pool may not be needed for <br />replacement of trans mountain diversions and that water from the replacement <br />pool could be used to supply West Slope irrigators ""in years of extreme low <br /> <br />8 <br />