BOARD01044

• Board Meeting Date: 5/24/1999
• Description: Colorado River Basin Issues - Long-Term Funding Legislation Status
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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DRAFT
May 7, 1999

Memorandum of Understanding
Among the CWCB, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Western Area Power Administration
Regarding Funding to Implement the
Upper Colorado River and San Juan River Endangered Fish Recovery Programs

1. Preamble

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The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to set forth the intentions of
the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB), the'Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), and the Secretary of Energy, acting
through the manager of the Colorado River Storage Project Customer Service Center of the
Western Area Power Administration (Western), with respect to the loan of state funds.
The loan or loans shall be made pursuant to federal law, including legislation passed by the
106 TH Congress to authorize the Reclamation to provide cost sharing for the Endangered
Fish Recovery Implementation Programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River
Basins (S. _and H.R. , as introduced and hereafter referred to as the Act).
The execution of this MOU will indicate that, once the Act becomes law, the parties have
the necessary authorization and can execute a loan contract to carry out the purposes of the
Act.
1.4 If any party to this MOU determines that future substantive changes to the Act, after its
introduction, have made this MOU null and void, they shall notify the other parties in
writing.

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2. Recitals

2.1

The Act provides the Secretary of Energy with the authority to contribute $17 million to
the construction of capital projects identified in the Upper Colorado River and San Juan
RIVER Endangered Fish Recovery Programs.
This contribution may be made through a loan or loans from the CWCB Construction
Fund to Western.

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