BOARD02083

• Board Meeting Date: 1/24/2001
• Description: Silvery Minnow Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Sl\"eet, Room 121
Denver, Cotomdo 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

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MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Governor

GregE. Walcher
Executive Director

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
Rod Kuharich
January 17, 2001
Agenda Item 19b, Jauuary 23-24, 2001 Board Meeting-
Silvery Minnow Resolution

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAulitTh
Deputy Director

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Attached is a proposed resolution that will be discussed at the Board meeting.

, RESOLUTION

Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular session sitting does hereby adopt a
Statement of Policy concerning the Rio Grande Compact and the obligations of the State
of Colorado there under.

After due consideration, the Colorado Water Conservation Board finds that:

1. The State of Colorado is signatory to the Rio Grande Compact, c.R.S.
~37-66-10l, et. seq., executed on behalf of the State on the 18th day of
March 1938.

2. Article III. of the Rio Grande Compact provides tabulations of relationship
on both the Conejos River and the Rio Grande that compare an index
supply and a delivery obligation to the New Mexico stateline measured at
the Lobatos gage.

3. Colorado's obligation to deliver water from the Rio Grande and its
tributaries to the State of New Mexico is as set forth in the Compact.

4. The remaining water supplies originating in the Rio Grande Basin within
Colorado are apportioned to Colorado and may be beneficially used and
consumed within the State.

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The water apportioned to Colorado by the Compact is not sufficient to
satisfy the needs of all vested Colorado water rights predating the Rio
Grande Compact.

The water delivered by Colorado in the Rio Grande at the ColoradolNew
Mexico stateline has met or exceeded the flows required by the Rio
Grande Compact for at least each of the last thirty (30) years

Colorado is committed to complying with the terms of the Rio Grande
Compact, and has curtailed deliveries by pre-Compact water rights to
ensure it complies with its obligations under the Compact.

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