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squawfish, the bonytail chub, the humpback chub, and the razorback sucker. <br />1.2. Instream Flow Issues <br />One aspect of the Recovery Implementation Program (RIP) is the acquisition water in <br />accordance with Colorado state water law and the procedures of the Colorado Water Conservation <br />Board. The Recovery Program's Water Acquisition Committee established amulti-disciplinary <br />subcommittee to identify and address the legal, institutional, and policy issues associated with the <br />acquisition of water and water rights for endangered fish (Evans, 1/17/92)'. The original intent of <br />the subcommittee was to identify any impediments and find an expert or "Guru" to develop <br />strategies to overcome the impediments. The subcommittee soon realized the "expert" was the <br />group sitting around their table. Hence, the subcommittee came to be known as GURU II. (A <br />separate committee was given the charge of addressing technical/biological issues associated with <br />instream flows and came to be known as "GURU I. ") <br />1.3. The Facilitation Team and Its Charge. <br />Facing this subcommittee was the same historical and contemporary paradox described <br />above: the need to implement a vitally important agreement on how to recover the endangered <br />fishes while water development within the Upper Colorado River Basin proceeds-within the <br />context of existing allocative procedures and institutions. This dilemma, as well as its agreed upon <br />resolution (the RIP), requires a high level of cooperation outside of the judicial process. To aid in <br />establishing a cooperative process and to expedite its implement~.tion, the subcommittee retained <br />the services of a facilitation team based in the Center for Public-Private Sector Cooperation, in <br />association with the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver <br />" Throughout this report, citations to supporting documentation, all of which is in the Documents <br />App~dix, are in parentheses by author and date; they also correspond to the Directory of Documents appearing <br />just after the Table of Contents in this report. <br />1-2 <br />