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<br />IN RECO~'j2 TO <br />7250 <br /> <br />United States Department of the Interior <br /> <br />BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT <br />Colorado State Office <br />2850 Youngfie1d Street <br />Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7093 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />www.co.blm.gov <br /> <br />APR 2 8 2005 <br /> <br />Mr. Rod Kuharich, Director <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />1313 Sherman Street, Seventh Floor <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Kuharich: <br /> <br />The purpose of this letter is to request that the Colorado Water Conservation Board delay its final instream flow <br />appropriations on the following two stream segments: <br /> <br />Escalante Creek - Case Number 05/04/A-016 <br />Escalante Creek - Case Number 05/041 A-017 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Land Management (ELM) was the recommending agency for these appropriations. However, <br />since the time of the formal recommendations, BLM has leamed that a private landowner along these segments <br />has questions regarding how the proposed appropriations will work with BLM's land use planning process for <br />the. Escalante Creek - Dominguez Creek area. BLM requests additional time to answer the questions and <br />concerns of the landowner before a fmal appropriation is made. <br /> <br />These recommendations were not formally contested by the March 31 deadline, and under the instream flow <br />rules, the board could precede with the fmal appropriation as early as its late May meeting. However, BLM <br />requests that the final appropriation decision for these two segments be delayed until the late September board <br />meeting, when the board will act upon contested stream segments. <br /> <br />If you have any questions about this request, please contact Roy Smith at 303-239-3940. <br />BLM thanks the board for its ongoing cooperation on instream flow issues. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />~.JJt ~ <br /> <br /> <br />Deputy State Director Resources and Fire <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />cc: <br />Mark Uppendahl, Colorado Division of Wildlife <br />Dennis Murphy, Uncompahgre FO <br />Jim Ferguson, Uncompahgre FO <br />Barb Sharrow, Uncompahgre FO <br />