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and Perkins Sams who owns the decree in W-1991. addresses this issue as follows: The Court a. The water right in case W-1991 was found by this Court to be a valid right in separate litigation, see: Decree of March 25, 1991, in case 90-CW-92. The dispute between the parties arises however over the fact that as a Protestant in case 82-CW-340, Sams entered into a stipulation which reduced the amount of the minimum instream flows which would flow in the Taylor River below the Taylor Park Reservoir. In spite of the Opposers' position otherwise, the Court concludes that both Sams and the Applicant are bound by the terms of said stipulation as it is incorporated in the decree in 82-CW-340, and that as a result, Sams has no right to require that his minimum in-stream flow right be modelled in the quantity of 445 c.f.s. b. However, the Court concludes that the provisions of the decree in 86-CW-203 control the streamflows in the Taylor River below Taylor Park Reservoir, rather than the provisions of the decree in 82-CW-340. This is true because the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association, the entities who are charged with the responsibility of releasing water into the Taylor River from the Taylor Park Reservoir, were not parties to the stipulation in 8.2-CW-340, and thus they are not bound by said stipulation, nor is the Gunnison District to whom the rights in 86-CW-203 were decreed. In fact, the stipulation and the decree in 82- CW-340 recognized that said entities were not parties (see FIll, 1.E.2). . Further, the parties to the stipulation recognized that the Bureau and the UVWUA "have primary control over releases from the Taylor Park dam pursuant to the water storage right decree on April 29, 1941 in the amount of 111,260 acre-feet and the August 28, 1975 Taylor Park Reser- voir Operation and Storage Exchange Agreement." (see 1[VIII, 1.E) Under the stipulation, NECO optimistically indicated its intent to release water from the Union Park Reservoir into the Taylor Park Reservoir in a manner cooperative with the enti ties in charge of the latter reservoir, but nothing in the stipulation bound the Bureau and/or the UVWUA to make releases in the amounts contemplated by the stipulation and the decree in 82-CW-340. c. Rather the Bureau and the UVWUA are responsible for making appropriate releases of water under the terms of the 1975 Exchange Agreement (which also includes the Gunnison District and the River District). The decree in 86-CW-203 recognized the release practices which said parties have utilized under the 1975 Agreement, and said decree adopted those practices and gave them the force of law. (See: i153(g) below) So said entities must now conform to the provisions of the decree in 86-CW-203 and make releases pursuant to the optimum stream flows prescribed in said decree, rather than thestreamflows contemplated by the decrees in 82-CW-340 and W-1991. 49