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B. The District is authorized to appropriate water rights and initiate and implement plans for augmentation for the benefit of water users within the District's boundaries. C.R.S. §§37-45-118 and 37-92-302(5). 2. Application. The District filed an Application for Change of Water Rights on October 30, 2007. The Application requested to change a portion of the conditional water storage rights owned by the District and decreed to the Pleasant Valley Reservoir and Pleasant Valley Feeder Canal (the "Pleasant Valley Project Rights") upstream for storage in the Morrison Creek Reservoir from which it may be released to Morrison Creek for beneficial uses within Applicant's service area and/or delivered over the Morrison divide and down the Little Morrison Creek drainage for storage in Stagecoach Reservoir as it exists or may be enlarged for subsequent release and beneficial use within the District. 3. Notice and Jurisdiction. The Application was properly published in the resume for Water Division No. 6. All notices required by law have been properly made, including as required under C.R.S. § 37-92-302(3). The Court has jurisdiction over the Application and over all entities or persons who had standing to appear, even though they did not do so. The Court finds that the relief granted herein is consistent with the relief originally requested in the Application and for which public notice was provided. 4. Opposition. Statements of Opposition to the Application were timely filed by the following persons and entities: Dorothy J. Dickerson, Betty Jane Lay, and Hattie M. Miles (pro se), DeQuine Family, LLC, Flying Diamond Resources, and Kim Singleton (represented by Petros & White, LLQ, James A. Larson (represented by Petros & White, LLQ, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (represented by the Colorado Attorney General), the State and Division Engineer, Water Division 6 (represented by the Colorado Attorney General), the Catamount Metropolitan District (represented by Holland & Hart LLP), Catamount Development, Inc. (represented by Petros & White, LLQ, the United States of America, through the United States Forest Service (represented by the United States Department of Justice), and the Robert and Elaine Gay Limited Partnership (prose). 5. Settlements. The District has entered into stipulations approving the entry of a decree granting the Application in the form of this Decree with the following parties: A. State Engineer and Division Engineer, Water Division 6, dated August 29, 2009. B. Colorado Water Conservation Board, dated August 31, 2009. C. Catamount Development Inc. and Catamount Metropolitan District, dated September 3, 2009. D. Dorothy J. Dickerson, Betty Jane Lay, and Hattie M. Miles, dated September 5, 2009. CASE NO. 07CW61 FINDINGS oF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND JUDGMENT AND DECREE PAGE 2