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a) gross per capita water requirements, including assumptions regarding the <br />relationship among municipal, industrial and agricultural use of water, <br />b) the accretive /depletive effect of each source of supply, and <br />c) the cumulative effect at the state line; <br />3. the operations and effects of projects to mitigate new depletive effects; <br />4. an estimate of Population Increase for the next reporting period; <br />5. estimates of the net accretive /depletive effects and Cumulative Effect for the next <br />reporting period; and <br />6. net changes in irrigated agricultural acreage, using readily available data. <br />Colorado will also submit annual information reports to the Governance Committee estimating <br />population increase in each of the three regions, and describing water sources used to supply new <br />water related activities including type of water source, works used and water quantities supplied. <br />Colorado will promptly report to the Governance Committee any new information that <br />significantly affects assumptions relied upon in this Program. <br />E. Determination of Cumulative Effect -- Initial Reporting Period. By the end of 2004, <br />Colorado will provide to the Governance Committee a calculation of the average monthly <br />distribution of the Cumulative Effect for anticipated water related activities in the South Platte <br />River Basin in Colorado for the Initial Reporting Period. The calculation will be based on the <br />projected Population Increase for that period, and the water use and transit loss assumptions <br />described above or as may be modified by the Governance Committee. The Cumulative Effect as <br />approved by the Governance Committee will determine the mitigation measures that will be <br />undertaken by Colorado during the Initial Reporting Period. <br />F. Determination of Cumulative Effect -- Subsequent Reporting Periods. Colorado will <br />monitor actual water use and development in the South Platte River Basin in Colorado from the <br />effective date of the Cooperative Agreement. At the end of the Initial Reporting Period, and at <br />the end of each Subsequent Reporting Period, Colorado will report to the Governance Committee <br />for its review and approval any adjustments in the Population Increase and in the Cumulative <br />Effect for that period. Such adjustments will serve as the basis for calculations for the next <br />succeeding Reporting Period. Any resulting increase or decrease in Cumulative Effect will be <br />added to or subtracted from the Cumulative Effect to be mitigated in the next succeeding <br />Reporting Period. <br />G. Mitigation of Cumulative Effect. The signatories assume that the Cumulative Effect for any <br />annual period is expected to be a mix of net accretions during the fall, winter and spring period, <br />and net depletions in the late -spring to mid - summer period, resulting in an estimated total <br />seasonal net depletive effect on an order of magnitude of less than 1800 of /yr for each 100,000 <br />additional people in the South Platte River Basin in Colorado. Based on these assumptions, <br />Colorado will, in each Reporting Period, undertake such reregulation projects within Colorado as <br />-25- <br />