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STATE OE COLORADO <br /> Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> • <br /> Department of Natural Resources <br /> • 721 Centennial Building „� <br /> 1313 Sherman Street -���•� <br /> Denver,Colorado 80203 <br /> Phone: (303)866-3441 <br /> FAX:(303)866-4474 Roy Romer <br /> MEMORANDUM Governor <br /> James S.Lochhead <br /> Executive Director,DNR <br /> Daries C.Lile,P.E. <br /> TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board Members Director,CWCB <br /> Peter H. Evans <br /> Acting Director,CWCB <br /> FROM: Randy Seaholm <br /> Sue Uppendahl <br /> Interstate Streams and Hydrologic Investigations Section <br /> DATE: September 10, 1998 <br /> SUBJECT: Agenda Item 20j, September 21-221998,Board Meeting— <br /> Colorado River Basin Issues— <br /> Ruedi Reservoir Round II Contracts and Annual Contract for <br /> Endangered Fish—Informational Item <br /> Background <br /> • At the July 1998 Board Meeting in Telluride,the Board authorized staff to execute a 1- <br /> year contract with Reclamation and the Service to deliver the unsold Ruedi water <br /> remaining after Round II sales to the endangered fish contingent upon receiving a letter <br /> from Reclamation indicating that they would proceed with the 6,135 AF of Ruedi Round <br /> II contracts now pending. The Board further agreed to proposed revisions to the 1995 <br /> Ruedi Round II Biological Opinion that would allow Round II contracts to proceed and <br /> also require the Recovery Program to pay for O&M costs associated with the water <br /> actually used for endangered fish purposes. <br /> Status of Ruedi Round II Sale Contracts <br /> Attached is the letter we received from Reclamation indicating that they would proceed <br /> with the 6,135 AF of Round II sale contracts currently pending as soon as the revisions to <br /> the 1995 Biological Opinion were approved by the Service. As of this date,the revised <br /> 1995 Biological Opinion is still pending approval by the Service and no Round II sale <br /> contracts have been executed. <br /> Revisions to the 1995 Ruedi Biological Opinion <br /> At a recent meeting between the Bureau and the Service, final language changes to the <br /> 1995 Ruedi Biological Opinion were agreed upon. Bureau staff anticipates this <br /> • document will now go out in draft form for a two-week review by appropriate <br />