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in the 13 mile reach of the Gunnison River just below the <br />Monument. 14 <br />The Conservancy has now reached an agreement with the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board which will turn over the <br />ownership of these water rights to the Conservation Board and <br />which spells out the Board's obligations to change, enforce, and <br />defend these water rights for instream use. 15 The Conservancy <br />has also worked very hard to make the Uncompaghre Valley Water <br />Users Association a party to this agreement and to spell out the <br />relationship between the 300 cfs instream water right and two <br />very large sets of water rights owned by the Water Users for the <br />Gunnison Tunnel, just upstream from the National Monument. <br />Gunnison Tunnel diversions along with hydropower and storage <br />operations at the Aspinall Unit (Crystal, Morrow Point, and Blue <br />Mesa Reservoirs and Power Plants) also just upstream can <br />dramatically influence the instream flows through the Black <br />Canyon. <br />14 Agreement for Donation of Water Rights between the <br />Pittsburg and Midway Coal Mining Co. and The Nature Conservancy, <br />December 31, 1987. <br />15 A nearly final draft of this agreement for Donation of A <br />Water Right between The Nature Conservancy, the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board, and the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users <br />Association is discussed by Bill McDonald in his March 14, 1990 <br />memorandum to the Conservation Board. The Board approved the <br />execution of this draft with Alternative 1 for paragraph 14(d). <br />12