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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />FAIRFIELD AND WOODS, P.C. <br />ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW <br /> <br />One Norwest Center, Suite 2400 <br />1700 Lincoln Street <br />Denver, Colorado 802034524 <br />Telephone: (303) 830-2400 <br />Facsimile: (303) 830-1033 <br /> <br />Howard Holme <br />(303) 894-4480 <br />hholme@fwlaw.com <br /> <br />March 5, 1998 <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Attention: Dan Merriman <br />721 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman St. <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />Dear Board Members and Staff: <br /> <br />Re: United States Instream Flow Claims, Water Division 2; Case Nos. <br />79CW176, 81CW220, 81CW221, 81CW222, 81CW223, 82CW18, 82CW19, <br />82CW20, 82CW27, 82CW28, 82CW29, 82CW30, 82CW31, 82CW32, <br />82CW33, 82CW34 and proposed C.W.C.B. instream flow filings <br /> <br />We represent the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District ("Southeastern"). <br />Southeastern and the C.W.C.B. have been objectors to the U.S. claims in Division 2 since <br />1979. Carol Angel will tell you of negotiations we both have had with the U.S., including on <br />February 20, 1998. For months, the State and water users painstakingly negotiated a dozen <br />"principles" to be used in any settlement decree. Mr. Skip Underwood, Regional Forester and <br />lead U.S.F.S. negotiator, wrote Mr. LiIe in December affIrming almost all the principles. On <br />the basis of Underwood's letter, the State and water users again extended a deadline for the <br />U.S. to quantify its claims and specify its diversion points. The U.S. signed a stipulation not <br />to move quantifIcation points downstream. Then, a month later, the U.S. said it did want to <br />move quantification points downstream, and renounced several of the most important <br />principles <br /> <br />We have also reviewed the Memorandum from Dan Merriman and Mark Uppendahl to <br />Carol Angel reviewing C.W.C.B. instream flow recommendations as they relate to the <br />U.S.F.S. reserved water right claims. Southeastern knows why C.W.C.B. staff wants to file <br />C.W.C.B. claims, and has considered the effects of those claims on the negotiations with the <br />United States. <br />