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

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1 SEC. 3. STATE OF COLORADO STUDIES.

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2 (a) I:\" GENERAI.J.-1'he Secretary of the Interior may
3 provide financial assistance 'to the State of Colorado,
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4 under the direction of the GO\ierflor of that State, to con-
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5 dud a ~tudy, or choose an apfJropriate organization ~Udl

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6 as Colorado State U niversity-iPueblo to conduct a study,
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7 to identify thl:' eumulative illlr)(~ets of past, cunent, or pro-
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8 posed transfers of water from !the ,A.rkansas and Colorado
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9 River basins to communities n~t located in the natural ba-
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10 sins of the Arkansas River oi. the Colorado River, and
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11 from agriculturally lm~ed cominunities within the .Arkan-
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12 sas River basin to e:\.l)anding n~unicipalities virithin the Ar-
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13 kansas River basin. I
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14 (b) STVDY CRITEHIA.-The study authorized under

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15 this section sha]l evaluate the following:
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16 (1) Emrironmental impacts such as impacts on
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17 water quality and wildlife: halJitat, and water supply
18 both for human and envil~onmental and recreational

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20 (2) Social, cultural, :recreational and eCOn011llC

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irnpacts,

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including' any disl)rOl)Ortionate
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ancVor low-incolne populations
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impa.cts of

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Ininoritv
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that result

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from actual or proposed water exclu,mg'es, water
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trades, and out-of-basin tr~lnsfers frorn the Arkansas

River ba,sin'and the Colorcldo River hasin.
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