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<br />. <br /> <br />provided for in Articles lII(a) and 1II(b) of the Colorado River Compact and the entire <br />Mexican Treaty delivery obligation; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Upper Colorado River Commission anticipates that the Upper <br />Division States will take all actions necessary to ensure that all Upper Basin States have <br />access to their respective apportionments as specified in the Upper Colorado River Basin <br />Compact; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Upper Colorado River Commission on June 19,2003, resolved <br />that: (I) ''the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, support and to the <br />extent necessary consent to the diversion of water from the Upper Basin for use in the <br />Lower Basin solely within New Mexico via the proposed Navajo-Gallup Water Supply <br />Project; provided, that any water so diverted by said project to the Lower Basin portion of <br />New Mexico, being a depletion of water at Lee Ferry, shall be a part of the consumptive <br />use apportionment made to the State of New Mexico by Article III (a) of the Upper <br />Colorado River Compact;" and (2) ''the Upper Colorado River Commission supports <br />such Congressional action as may be necessary to authorize the Navajo-Gallup Water <br />Supply Project." <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Upper Colorado River <br />Commission, that the Commission supports Congressional action to approve the <br />Settlement Agreement, authorize the proposed Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, and <br />approve the proposed Settlement Contract for the Navajo Nation's uses in New Mexico <br />from the Navajo Reservoir supply under the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project and the <br />Navajo Indian Irrigation Project. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that while the Upper Colorado River <br />Commission does not endorse the study assumptions used by the Bureau of Reclamation <br />in its , 2006, draft hydrologic determination, and specifically disagrees with the <br />assumption of a minimum Upper Basin delivery of 8.25 million acre-feet annually at Lee <br />Ferry, the Commission would support a determination by the Secretary of the Interior that <br />at least _ million acre-feet of water is available annually for use by the Upper Basin, <br />exclusive of reservoir evaporation at Lake Powell, Flaming Gorge Reservoir and the <br />Aspinall Unit reservoirs of the Colorado River Storage Project. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Upper Colorado River Commission <br />would support a determination by the Secretary of the Interior that sufficient water is <br />reasonably likely to be available to fulfill the proposed Settlement Contract for the <br />Navajo Nation's uses in New Mexico from the Navajo Reservoir supply under the <br />Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project and the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, in addition <br />to existing Navajo Reservoir water supply contracts for other uses, without causing New <br />Mexico to exceed its Upper Colorado River Basin Compact allocation. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that nothing in this Resolution, or resulting from <br />the implementation of this Resolution, shall limit the right or ability of any Upper Basin <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3 <br />