7732

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7732
• Author: Center for Public-Private Sector Cooperation, U. o. C.
• Title: Recommendations on the Legal, Policy, and Institutional Issues Related to Instream Flow Protection in Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

Add #5: It may be more effective in the near term to
• meet flow needs through reservoir re-operation
(and/or??) water rights acquisitions.
FLOW OPTIONS:
I. Absolute Right: Fish needs are known and do not
conflict with compact.
INTERIM FLOW OPTIONS:
II. Absolute and Conditional:
Absolute: Less than flow recommendation needed for fish
with compact, e.g., 581.
Conditional: A flow recommendation; periodic review
for fish needs, and compact (due diligence; remainder
of the water flow needs).
III. Conditional: Full flow recommendations with
periodic review.
CONCERNS/COMMENTS:
1. Enforcement of a "conditional" water right.
2. Objection to changes.
3. Provides a place in time.
• CHOICES/OPTIONS:
I. Junior Water Rights
A. Absolute and Conditional
B. Conditional
C. Absolute
II. Acquisition of Water Rights
A. Conditional
B. Absolute
C. Stored - (non-Federal)
III. Reservoir Re-Operation - anything to do with
Federal reservoirs.
IV. Salvage Water. Assumption: State law reconciled.