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i�AY-12 THU 12�36 PM TROUT WITWER & FREEMAN <br />.� � . , <br />_, <br />Rod Kuharich <br />Paga 2 <br />FAX NO, 3038324465 <br />P, 03 <br />The minimum target amount to be delivered to Kansas by LAVWCD is curreYttly <br />estimated at 3,412 acre-feet, althoug�i a:�ina1 water accounting cannat be made until <br />nxnaff is over and. deli�vezies are complete. The �AVWCD expects to acquire and <br />deliver the balanoe of Colorada's obligation to �.ansas in 2006, and will request <br />another drought grant in 2006 to defray those costs, <br />4. Copies.af official federal and state drought declarations for the affected counties <br />(Bent, Cro�vley, Y'ueblo, Provu'ers, and Otero Caunties) are enclosed with this <br />Application. These declarations covez� the �.awer Arkansas River for the period 2000 <br />tn 2004. <br />The court-mandated H-I Model calculates total Compact obliga�ions, but cannat <br />break these down by count�'. As noted a,bove, Co3orado had a 3,074 acre-foot credit <br />ente7ing the drought, while its current replacement obligation is 6,824 acre-feet. <br />Colorado's total obligation would have been 9,898 acre-feet absent the pre-drought '" <br />cred.it that existed from 1997 to 1999. This credit more �han offsets the sma.11 amount <br />of the T.ower Ari�ansas River that was not under drought declarations from 2000 to <br />2004 (Pueblo County', 2000). Thus, a11 of the water Colarado currently owes Kansas <br />— the purpose of this Application — is a result of drought in co�.nties under federal or <br />state drou�.t declarations. <br />5, Attached is a line-item budget showing a11 pmjected and actual expe�ditures, <br />including in-kind support. <br />6. A copy of the LAVWCD's current annual budget and 2004 fiAancial statement is <br />enclosed. <br />7. The LA'V�V'CD is a political subdivision of the State of Colorado, ozganized in 2002 <br />pursuant to article 45 oftitle 37, Colorado Revised Statutes. FYndings and l�ecree, <br />Case lvo. 02CV793 (Puebla C�unty District Court, 2002). A list of the LAVWCb'S <br />current Board of Directors is enclased. <br />The T.AVWCD was established "f�r the purposes nf conservation of th� water <br />resources within the District, [and] for their greatest beneficial use. .." Findings and <br />.l�ecree. Without timely�eplacement of Colorado's water obligation to Kansas, <br />groundwatez withdrawals within the LAVWCD will be curtailed under the State <br />EngineeT's Basin ltules, which vcrill interfere with the greatest beneficial use of water <br />in the Lower Arkansas Hasin. The LA'V"VV'CD requests this grant in order to further <br />the conservation and beneficial use of water within the Lower Axkansas Basin. <br />�►ppendi�c 1 to Contract C1502°0 2 <br />