9326

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9326
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Draft Biological Opinion for Ute Water/Plateau Creek Pipeline Replacement Project, Mesa County, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

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4. Monitoring and Reporting requirements:
The Bureau will ensure that Ute Water does not deplete more than
the Phase 1 and Phase 2 amounts of water from the 15-mile reach.
The Bureau will require Ute Water to accurately measure and
record total water usage (inflow to or outflow from its water
treatment plant). The Bureau will submit a report to the
Service annually which presents the Project's new depletions,
calculated as make-up flows, for each of the 10 previous years
and the average for these years.
5. Depletion fee:
The Project's new depletions will be measured against the sufficient
progress threshold using the Project's reduction of flows below the
Service's recommended flows in the 15-mile reach (make-up flows);
this is because the Project's greatest depletion impacts occur within
the 15-mile reach and a reasonable and prudent alternative must
offset all impacts which cause jeopardy to the species or destruction
or adverse modification of critical habitat. However, the depletion
fee will be calculated using the new depletion to the basin measured
below the Persigo Waste Water Treatment Plant; this is because the
depletion fee structure was based on the total depletion to the basin
projected to occur after inception of the Recovery Program and on the
portion of the cost for recovery to be paid by water users. The
new depletion to the basin is estimated to b 3 2 cre-feet when the
make-up flow is equal to the sufficient progres threshold of
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The applicant will make a ore-time payment which has been ~~
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calculated by multiplying t.~e Project's average annual new t~ ~~ r~s~~7
depletion to the basin (332 acre-feet) by the depletion
charge in effect at the time payment is made. For Fiscal
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Year 1996 (October 1, 1995, to September 30, I996), t
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depletion charge i s 513.41 per acre-foot . pr ~~ c~1~~1;,~f,(';
the total depletion charge for Phase 1 is 54, 29. The
Service will notify the applicant of any in the
depletion charge by September 1 of each year. Ten percent
of the total contribution (5432.93), or total payment, will
be provided to the Service's designated agent, the Nationa
Fish -and Wildlife Foundation, at the time of issuance of the
Federal approvals from the Bureau. The balance will be due
at the time the construction commences. The payment will be
included by the Bureau as a permit stipulation. The amount
payable will be adjusted annually for inflation on October 1
of each year based on the Composite Consumer Price Index.
Fifty percent of the funds will be used for acquisition of
water rights to meet the instream flow needs of the
endangered fishes (unless otherwise recommended by the