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<br />.' .' ~. <br /> II <br />. <br /> Purpose of Filing SOPs to Applications Involving Inundation <br /> · Gives Board opportunity to <br /> - Evaluate potential impact of inundation <br /> - Work with the a~Plicant to develop mutually acceptable <br /> a~wroach to bot water development and protection of existing <br /> I water right <br /> - Be on a level playing field with applicant and other objectors to <br /> application <br /> - Implement Rule 7 in concert with water court process <br /> - Fulfill its statutory duty to protect its decreed water rights <br />. <br /> ISF Rule 7: Inundation - Basic Concepts <br /> · Rule 7 defines inundation as the artificial <br /> impoundment of water within an ISF or natural <br /> lake. <br /> · Inundation of all or a portion of an ISF reach <br /> may be an interference with the Board's rights to <br /> use its decreed ISF water right (usufructuary). <br /> · SBP defines interference as any non-consensual <br /> act that hampers the Board's ability to use its <br /> water right to preserve the stream habitat or <br /> other natural environment for which the ISF right <br /> was originally appropriated. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />2 <br />