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• Board Meeting Date: 7/11/2007
• Description: ISF Section - Hat Creek Water Right Acquisition
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

EXHIBIT A

BARGAIN AND SALE DEED

This Bargain and Sale Deed, dated this _ day of , 2007, is from the
COLORADO WATER TRUST, a Colorado nonprofit corporation (the "Trust"), to the
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD, an agency of the State of Colorado
(the "Board").

In consideration of due and sufficient consideration, the Trust hereby sells and
conveys all of its right, title and interest in the following described water right located in
Eagle County, Colorado (the "Hat Creek Right") to the Board, for use to preserve and
improve the natural environment to a reasonable degree in Hat Creek from the existing
decreed point of diversion of the Hat Creek Ditch downstream to the confluence of Hat
Creek and East Brush Creek:

The 2.0 cfs decreed to the Hat Creek Ditch, as stream priority no. 335A, in Civil
Action No. 673, by the Eagle County District Court, on July 17, 1916, with an
appropriation date of March 7, 1914, for irrigation purposes.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Deed has been executed by the Trust and
accepted by the Board as of the date first set forth above.

COLORDAO WATER TRUST

By:
Michael F. Browning, President

STATE OF COLORADO )
) ss.
COUNTY OF BOULDER )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this _ day of
,2007, by Michael F. Browning, as President of the Colorado Water Trust, a
Colorado nonprofit corporation.

Witness my hand and official seal.

Notary Public

My commission expires:

00013907

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