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Issues joined as a result of the pleadings filed in this <br />proceeding include not only questions as to whether the right'to <br />make such exchanges had been evidenced by the 1955 Decree in the <br />Consolidated Cases and, if so, what priority date should be used <br />in their administration, but also questions dealing with the <br />priority dates for the administration of the water rights for <br />other features of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project and the <br />administration of Denver's exchanges of water from its Williams <br />Fork Reservoir to its Blue River system under the decrees in <br />these Consolidated Cases. <br />The United States has entered into a Stipulation for Decree <br />dated August 7, 1992, and filed with the Court on Augiist 10, <br />1992, with a number (33) of the parties to these proceedings. In <br />addition, the United States as the Applicant in Case No. 88CW382, <br />and in compliance with C.R.S. 37-92-305(3) filed a proposed <br />decree with the Court consistent with that Stipulation for <br />Decree. <br />Some parties initially not signatory to the Stipulation for <br />Decree objected to the entry of the proposed decree for the <br />reason that the provisions governing the administration of the <br />exchanges from Denver's Williams Fork Reservoir to its Blue River <br />system were not within the notice provided by the United States <br />when it filed its Case No. 88CW382 in the District Court for <br />water uivision No. 5 of the State of Colorado. <br />All of the parties not signatory to the August 7, 1992, <br />2