8196

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8196
• Author: Center for Public-Private Sector Cooperation and G. S. o. P. Affairs.
• Title: Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

(c) No Material Injury Rule.
(d) Conditional Rights.
(e) Subordination of USFWS Instream Flow Rights.
(f) Conditional to Absolute Instream Flow Conversions.
(g) Leases for Instream Flow.
(h) Decrees and Instream Flow Releases.
(i) Salvaged and Saved Water
(j) Institutional Responses to Uncertainty.
Category III - (a) "Minimum Requirements/Reasonable Degree".
(b) Distinctions Between Instream and Consumptive Use Rights.
(c) Condemnation.
(d) Variability in Instream Flow Right Definitions.
(e) RIP and Other Fishery Needs.
The group then focused its efforts on two of the Category I issues: 1) The Impact of the Legal
Protection of Instream Flows on Colorado's Ability to Develop its Apportionment under the 1922
Colorado River Compact and the 1945 Upper Colorado River Compact, and 2) Interim Instream
Flow Rights, expanded to include other water acquisition strategies. Regarding the compact issue,
GURU II members adopted the following four-step process for addressing possible conflicts
between Compact apportionment and endangered fish needs:
Step 1. Quantification of Colorado's compact apportionment on a stream-by stream basis.
Step 2. Interim Instream Flow Protection Possibilities.
Step 3. Determination of Potential Conflicts.
Step 4. Juniper-Cross Conversion Determination.
The derivation of strategies for water acquisition and their application to specific water
resource allocation situations in Colorado was atwo-step process. The first step was to identify
various strategies generically, and the second was to determine during what seasons of the year
each of these strategies should be applied on what rivers in Colorado. Listed below are the various
generic strategies identified by the group: .
(1) Establishment of an Absolute Junior Water Right.
(2) Establishment of a Interim Instream Water Right.
(3) Establishment of Combined Absolute and Interim Water Right.
(4) Acquisition of an Existing Absolute Water Right.
(5) Acquisition of an Existing Conditional Water Right.
(~ Non-federal Rights to Reservoir Storage.
('7J Reservoir Re-operation.
(8) Salvage Water.
At its last facilitated session in July of 1992, GURU II members determined which of the