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RIVER PROTECTION WORKGROUP <br />INITIAL RIVER PROTECTION TOOLS /MECHANISMS <br />The following variety of federal, state and local tools, both public and private, are among <br />those available to protect natural stream values and other values. <br />1. Colorado Instream Flow and Natural Lake Level Program <br />2. Colorado Law and Intergovernmental Agreements <br />3. Conservation Easements <br />4. County Land Use Codes <br />5. Federal Legislation (Special) (Rio Grande and North St. Vrain Creek) <br />6. Gold Medal Waters <br />7. National Conservation Areas ( "NCAs ") <br />Outstanding Waters <br />9. Recreational In- Channel Diversions ( "RICD ") <br />10. U.S. Bureau of Land Management ( "BLM ") and U.S. Forest Service <br />( "USFS ") Land Management Plans ( "LMPs ") <br />11. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 ("WSRA ") <br />12. Wilderness Designation: Wilderness Act of 1964 ( "Wilderness Act ") <br />I. Colorado Instream Flow and Natural Lake Level Program ( "ISF Program"): <br />Colorado's ISF Program, a tool for permanently protecting stream flows and preserving <br />the natural environment of Colorado's streams, was established by the Colorado General <br />Assembly in 1973. The legislature recognized the need to "correlate the activities of <br />mankind with some reasonable preservation of the natural environment," and vested the <br />CWCB with exclusive authority to protect streamflows through a reach of stream. The <br />CWCB may appropriate new ISF water rights or acquire existing water rights and change <br />them to ISF use under the ISF Program as follows: <br />An ISF water right is: <br />