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Rod Kuharich <br /> May 25,2006 <br /> Page 2 <br /> • 4. Copies of official federal and state drought declarations for the affected counties <br /> (Bent, Crowley, Pueblo, Prowers, and Otero Counties) were provided with the <br /> LAVWCD's 2005 application,which we assume you have in your files. These <br /> declarations cover the Lower Arkansas River for the period 2000 to 2004,the period <br /> during which Colorado incurred its current delivery obligation to Kansas. <br /> 5. The LAVWCD will provide a line-item budget showing all projected and actual <br /> expenditures, including in-kind support, with its final 2006 agricultural emergency <br /> drought grant application. <br /> 6. The LAVWCD will provide a copy of its current annual budget, annual report and <br /> financial statement with its final 2006 Agricultural Emergency Drought Grant <br /> Application. <br /> The LAVWCD is a political subdivision of the State of Colorado, organized in 2002 <br /> pursuant to article 45 of title 37, Colorado Revised Statutes.Findings and Decree, <br /> Case No. 02CV793 (Pueblo County District Court, 2002). The LAVWCD will <br /> provide a list of its current Board of Directors with its final 2006 Agricultural <br /> Emergency Drought Grant Application. <br /> The LAVWCD was established"for the purposes of conservation of the water <br /> resources within the District, [and] for their greatest beneficial use. . ." Findings and <br /> Decree. Without timely replacement of Colorado's water obligation to Kansas, <br /> • groundwater withdrawals within the LAVWCD will be curtailed under the State <br /> Engineer's Basin Rules,which will interfere with the greatest beneficial use of water <br /> in the Lower Arkansas Basin. The LAVWCD requests this grant in order to further <br /> the conservation and beneficial use of water within the Lower Arkansas Basin. <br /> Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Pe 1.r D.Nichols <br /> for <br /> Trout, Raley,Montano, <br /> Witwer&Freeman, P.C. <br /> Cc: Russell George,Esq. <br /> Don Ament <br /> Hal Simpson, P.E. <br /> Steve Witte,P.E. <br /> • R. Jay Winner, General Manager, LAVWCD <br />