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<br />" <br /> <br />completion of the project, water stored in Lake Nighthorse will be used by municipal and industrial users <br />in Colorado and New Mexico. . <br /> <br />The Animas-La Plata Project fulfills the requirements of the 1988 Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights <br />Settlement Act and the Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendment of2000. The Project also will supply <br />4,680 Acre-feet per year through a pipeline from Farmington to Shiprock, New Mexico for the Navajo <br />Nation. When completed, the project will provide the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and Ute Mountain Ute <br />Tribe and the people of the four comers area with a reliable water supply for their future needs, without <br />taking scarce water resources away from existing water users in southwestern Colorado and northwestern <br />New Mexico. <br /> <br />Weminuche Construction Company (WCA) based in Towaoc, Colo., is the primary contractor for the <br />project. WCA is a minority commercial construction company that is owned and operated by the Ute <br />Mountain Ute Tribe. WCA has extensive experience in all phases of construction and related engineering <br />disciplines, including: oil and gas field construction, residential and commercial buildings, heavy <br />construction, road building, canals and water systems, sand and gravel, and municipal improvements. <br /> <br />San Juan Recovery Implementation Program (SJRIP): The SJRIP remains in the process of updating <br />the program guidance documents. This is the first comprehensive update of the program guidance <br />documents to occur since the SJRIP was initiated in October 1992. Staff intends to present the revised <br />program document to the Board for approval prior to actual adoption of the revised documents by the <br />SJRIP. The SJRIP is also discussing possible revisions to the current flow recommendations based on the <br />knowledge gained to date. <br /> <br />Agency Updates <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Di Minimis Report - please see the table in the Attaclunents. <br /> <br />Stream and Lake Protection Program - Summary of Resolved Cases <br /> <br />The Board's ISF Rule 8i. states that: "In the event the pretrial resolution includes terms and conditions <br />preventing injury or interference and does not involve a modification, or acceptance of injury or <br />interference with mitigation, the Board is not required to review and ratifY the pretrial resolution. Staff <br />may authorize its counsel to sign any court documents necessary to finalize this type of pretrial resolution <br />without Board ratification." <br /> <br />Staff has resolved issues of potential injury in the following water court cases and authorized the Attorney <br />General's Office to enter into stipulations that protect the CWCB's water rights: <br /> <br />(I) Case No. 5-03CWI59: Application of EagIe River Water & Sanitation District, Upper Eagle <br />Regional Water Authority & Flattops Water Co" LLC <br /> <br />The Board ratified this statement of opposition at its November 2003 meeting. The Board's main objective in <br />filing the statement of opposition in this case was to ensure that (1) the Applicants' proposed change of water <br />right would not result in an expansion of consumptive use or season of use; (2) the Applicants' proposed <br />exchanges would be operated only when in priority; and (3) the Applicants would replace injurious depletions <br />in time, place, and amount under their proposed plan for augmentation. This case was set for a ten-day trial <br />starting August 22, 2005. Staff, in cooperation with the Attorney General's Office, has negotiated a <br />settlement to ensure that the CWCB' s instream flow water rights will not be injured. <br /> <br />The Board holds the following instream flow rights that could have been injured by these applications: . <br /> <br />26 <br />