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<br />The workload of these senior management people for the next <br />five months consists of many important items: <br /> <br />(I) On-going efforts to obtain enactment of legislation to <br />implement the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Final Settlement <br />Agreement and the Animas-La Plata Project and of legislation to <br />increase the authorized ceiling for the Closed Basin Project. <br />(2) Intensive negotiations, precipitated by Utah, with the <br />Upper Basin states, power customers, and national environmental <br />groups to revise the use of hydropower revenues from the <br />Colorado River Storage Project (at stake is several hundred <br />million dollars of power revenues for Colorado for project <br />development over the next several decades), <br />(3) Implementation of the Colorado River Endangered Fishes <br />Recovery Implementation Program so as to avoid jeopardy <br />opinions under the Endangered species Act, which opinions could <br />thwart future water resources development in the Colorado River <br />Basin, <br />(4) Major issues concerning future operation of the <br />Colorado River mainstem reservoirs, <br />(5) Interstate )itigati6n concerning the Arkansas and North <br />Platte Rivers, <br />(6) U.S. Forest Service reserved rights claims for instream <br />flows for channel maintenance purposes, <br />(7) Resolution of issues concerning maintenance of the <br />permanent pool and allocation of storage space in Bear Creek <br />Reservoir, <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />