BOARD01632

• Board Meeting Date: 9/13/2004
• Description: ISF Section - Proposed Water Right Acquisition - Elkhead Reservoir Enlargement
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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DRAFT 9-1-04 .

Contract No.

RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM
UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN

AGREEMENT AMONG THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION and FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE,
AND
THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT

CONCERNING ELKHEAD RESERVOIR ENLARGEMENT
TO
F ACILIT ATE RECOVERY OF ENDANGERED FISH SPECIES IN THE
Y AMPA RIVER BASIN

This RESERVOIR ENLARGEMENT AGREEMENT made this day of
2004, pursuant to the Act to Authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to
Provide Cost Sharing for the Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Programs for the Upper
Colorado and San Juan River Basins, (October 30,2000,114 Stat. 1602, Public Law 106-392),
and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, between the UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ("Reclamation")
and the FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ("Service"), both acting through the Secretary of
Interior, and the COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, acting by and
through its Colorado River Water Projects Enterprise ("River District") created pursuant to
C.R.S. ' , 37-45.1-101 and 37-46-101, et seq.

WITNESSETH, that:

1. WHEREAS, the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species
in the Upper Colorado River Basin ("Recovery Program") dated September 29, 1987 was
implemented by a Cooperative Agreement signed in January of 1988 by the Secretary ofthe
Department of the Interior, the Governors of the States of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming and the
Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration. The Recovery Program is a coalition
of agencies and organizations. The goal of the Recovery Program is to recover four species of
endangered fish while allowing water development to proceed consistent with state water law
and in compliance with the Federal Endangered Species Act ("ESAn) in the Upper Basin states
of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming; and

2. WHEREAS, the River District is a political subdivision of the State of Colorado
created and existing pursuant to its Organic Act, C.R.S. ' , 37-46-101, et seq., and other

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