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I I In Section 2, tho~e bypasses are modified in certain circumst'ances--. first of all, if an emergency comes up or during a temporary period in which the reductions of the bypasses are required to facilitate main~ tenance" the Denver Water Boar,d has', that' prerogative to operate according tQ the emergency Or react as they need to help the situation. Provision 2, paragraph 2, provides some dr-ought criteria. During a drought year, the Denver Water Board: can, but not necessarily, reduce the bypasses to one and a half of the previously mentioned numbers. It also includes a definition of what that drought year is. And it roughly corresponds to the frequency of about one year' in five years out of 24, based 'on past records. , , Paragraph 2, Section: 2, also provides that if new data,. new informa- tion, pevelops that we can revise the drought year definition. Paragraph 2 also provides when the bypasses will commence. Section 3 states, basically, that the staff of the Water Board and Division of Wildlife will recommend that the board adopt these appro- priations. Section 4 says that the Denver Water 'Board will provide some public access for fishing purposes on lands it owns in the Williams Fork drainage. Paragraph 5 provides that the Denver Water Board would supply the Division of Wildlife the sum of $100,000 for stream habitat improve- ment on the South Fork and on Williams Fork. It also says that the money will be provided when ,the diversion~-or when-the 'collection system is 'completed. . It'~also' contains'some criteria to adjust that sum in terms of 1979 dollars. _ The system may not be completed for.' six or' eight years, -and, that hundred thousand'dollars is .translated into money at that time. ..' ... " Section 6 is an important~section, from the board's standpoint. It says, basically,,,that the board recognizes' Denver's ' senior water rights, recognizes the exchange contemplated by the Denver Water Board. And it says--I will quote: "The Colorado Water Conservation Board hereby agrees that it will not exercise its water rights appropriated under the authority. of C.R.S. 1973, Sec. 37~92-l03(3) in the Williams Fork Basin so as to interfere with or impair such exchange operations by Denver. ; , The agreement also contains a stipulation in which we would ask the water judge to incorporate that stipulation asa part of any decrees. that we may obtain under the minimum streamflow statute. -3-