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EXHIBIT A <br />#CA00012 <br />Contract No. 00 -WC -40 -6590 <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION <br />ASPINALL UNIT <br />COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT <br />AGREEMENT AMONG THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, <br />THE COLORADO STATE ENGINEER, <br />THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, <br />THE UPPER GUNNISON RIVER WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT <br />FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF WATER PURSUANT TO THE SUBORDINATION <br />OF WAYNE N. ASPINALL UNIT WATER RIGHTS WITHIN THE <br />UPPER GUNNISON RIVER BASIN. <br />s <br />THIS AGREEMENT is made this Iday of .7T^ -c , 2000 between the United States of <br />America (the United States), acting through the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to The <br />Reclamation Act of 1902 (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388) and all acts amendatory and <br />supplementary thereto (except as provided in paragraph 18), including the Colorado River Storage <br />Project Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), the Colorado State Engineer, the Colorado River Water <br />Conservation District (River District), organized and existing pursuant to the laws of the State of <br />Colorado, with its office and principal place of business at Glenwood Springs, Colorado; and the <br />Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District (Upper Gunnison District), organized and <br />existing pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado with its office and principal place of business <br />at Gunnison, Colorado; <br />WITNESSETH, THAT: <br />WHEREAS, the United States constructed the Curecanti Unit, now known as the Wayne N. <br />Aspinall Unit ( Aspinall Unit), of the Colorado River Storage Project, including the Blue Mesa, <br />Morrow Point and Crystal Dams and Reservoirs, for the purpose, among other things, of regulating <br />the flows of the Colorado River to permit the Upper Colorado River Basin States to more fully <br />utilize their allocation of Colorado River waters, as set forth in the Upper Colorado River Basin <br />Compact; and <br />