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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 1006
• Author: Resource Consultants, I.
• Title: Biological Assessment Green Mountain Reservoir Water Marketing Program.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

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It should be noted that the operating policy provides specific
definitions for the potential uses of Green Mountain water. Under
these definitions, snowmaking is classed as an industrial use. In addi-
tion, the Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Missouri Region has classified
the use of water for golf course irrigation as an industrial use unless
such water is derived from a municipal or quasi-municipal treatment
facility. If water is derived through a treatment facility, the use
would be classed as municipal.
The references cited and extracted above provide the legislative
basi s for water sal es contracts from Green Mountain Reservoir. To date,
only interim water sal es contracts for Green Mountain water have been
negotiated. The Bureau of Reclamation considered the public interest in
such sales significant enough to warrant an environmental analysis of
alternative sales procedures.
The decision was made by the Bureau to proceed directly to an EIS
without a prel iminary environmental assessment, and to issue a
Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement for the Colorado-Big
Thompson, Windy Gap Projects (USBR 1981). The analysis of alternative
water sales procedures in the Supplement were prepared in compl iance
with the National Environmental Pol icy Act of 1970, as amended, and
other Federal legislation as appropriate.
On July 23, 1984, the Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Missouri Region
(Bureau), signed a cooperative agreement with the Colorado River Water
Conservation District (River District) to provide for the River District
to contract for the appropriate NEPA compl iance and conformance with
other Federal or State legislation that may bear on evaluating the
potential environmental impacts associated with marketing water from
Green Mountain Reservoir. The stated purpose of this agreement was to

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