BOARD00024

• Board Meeting Date: 3/21/2002
• Description: WSP Section - Arkansas River Basin Issues: HR 1714 - Use of Excess Capacity - East Slope Facilities - FryingPan - Arkansas Project
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

(5) To authorize the Secretary to enter into contracts with the Pueblo West
Metropolitan District, Colorado, or an enterprise of the District, for use of storage or
carrying capacity excess of the requireme~ts of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project,
Colorado, for the impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for
domestic, municipal, industrial, and other beneficial purposes as provided herein.

(b) Nothing in this Act is intended to--

(1) impair or otherwise interfere with the project's authorized purposes or existing
contractual obligations of the Secretary or project beneficiaries, including the
renewal of any such contracts;

(2) increase diversions of project water from the natural basin of the Colorado
River;

(3) increase diversions of non project water from the natural basin of the Colorado
River within Colorado into another river ba~in for delivery or storage, except as .
provided in this Act;

(4) impair or otherwise interfere with Contr~ct Nos. 00XX6C0049 and
0009D6C0048 between the Board of Water Works of Pueblo, Colorado, and the
United States, or the renewal of Contract Nos. 00XX6C0049 and 0009D6C0048
pursuant to the authority that provides the legal basis therefor; or

(5) affect the interpretation or implementati9n of existing law or legislation for any
other congressionally authorized water project.
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SEC. 2. SECRETARY AUTHORIZED TO CONI)UCT STUDIES FOR THE
ENLARGEMENT OF PUEBLO DAM AND SUGAR LOAF DAM.

(a) The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to engage in storage space studies,
up to and including a feasibility study pursuant tOI section 8 of the Federal Water Project
Recreation Act (16 U.S.C. 4601-19) and section ~(a) of the Act of August 4,1939
(Chapter 418; 43 U.S.C. 485h(a)), as may be appropriate, relating to enlarging Pueblo
Dam and Reservoir and Sugar Loaf Dam and TUfquoise Lake, Fryingpan-Arkansas
Project, Colorado, including studies for the purpose of determining the potential costs,
benefits, and environmental and recreational imp~cts of such enlargements and the use
and operation thereof, as described in the Prefer~ed Storage Options Plan Report
published September 21, 2000, by the Southeast$rn Colorado Water and Storage Needs .
Assessment Enterprise and Final PSOP Implementation Committee Report dated April
19, 2001. Any report or reports submitted to the p'resident and Congress prepared
pursuant to this provision shall be considered to f~lfill the requirements of section 9(a) of
the Act of August 4, 1939 (Chapter 418; 43 U.S.q. 485h(a)), to the extent that section
may be applicable.

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