BOARD00176 ‎(3)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2007
• Description: WSP Section - Navajo-Gallup EIS and Status of Navajo Settlement Negotiations - Arizona Position
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

F:\M 1 O\LAMBOR\LAMBOR_002.XML

H.L.C.

12

.:,

1 "SEC. 9. (a) The Secretary of the Interior may enter

2 into new and renewal contracts with the City of Aurora,

3 Colorado, 01' an enterprise of the City, for a term not to

4 exceed 40 yeaTS, for use of storage or carrying' capacity

5 excess of the requirements of the I~-'ryingpan-Arkansas

6 Project, Colorado, for the purpose of impounding, storage,

7 and carriage of nonpl'oject water for domestic, municipal,

8 industrial and other beneficial purposes. Such contracts

9 shall be-

10
11
12
. 13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
e,

f:\V10\032307\032307.041.xml
March 23, 2007 (11 :12 a.m.)

"( 1) limited to the storage and carriage of \va-

tel's appropriated from the .....~.rkansas River helel by
the City of Aurora, Colorado, or an enterprise of the

City that-

"(A) are decreed water rights and owned

by the City of Aurora, Colorado, or an enter-

prise of the City as of December 7, 2001;

"(B) are water rights described in a Colo-

rado \-Vater Court water rights application

pending as of December 7, 2001, or an amend-

ment or refiling does not increase the draft of

water from the .Arkansas Basin that would have

been available to the City of Aurora, Colorado,

or an enterprise of the City under the original

application;

(36696513)