BOARD02109

• Board Meeting Date: 6/15/1950
• Description: Table of Contents, Minutes and Resolutions. Volumes I and II of Transcription of Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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II.

OPERATING PRINCIPLES

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The construction and operation of the project involve the diversion
of water from the headwaters of the Frying Pan River and other tributaries
of the Roaring Fork River to the Arkansas River Basin. The project con-
templates
(a) The maximum conservation and use of the diverted waters;
(b) The protection of Western Colorado water uses, both exist-
ing and potential, in accordance with the declared policy of the
State of Colorado; and
(c) The preservation of recreational values.

In order to accomplish such purposes the project shall be operated
by' the United States in compliance with the federal reclamation lamr, the
laws of the State of Colorado, and the following operating principles:

1. As used herein,
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(a) "Project" means that certain enterprise planned
and designed by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the
Interior, for the transmountain diversion of water from the
headwaters of the Frying Pan River and other tributaries of the
Roaring Fork River to the basin of the Arkansas River, together
with all of its appurtenant works and facilities in both Eastern
and Western Colorado.

(b) "Eastern Colorado" means that portion of the State
of Colorado lying within the natural drainage basin of the
Arkansas River.

(c) "Western Colorado" means that portion of the State
of Colorado lying wi thin the natural drainage basin of the
Colorado !liver and served lYj diversions made from the Colorado
River, or its tributaries, above its confluence with the Gunnison
River.

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(d) "Eastern Colorado Conservancy District" means that
entity to be hereafter created to contract for payment to the
United States of an appropriate portion of project costs
allocated to certain water uses in Eastern Colorado.

(e) "Aspen Reservoir" means not only the reservoir presently
planned for construction near the town of Aspen as part of the
project but also any other reservoir that may be constructed in
Western Colorado in lieu of that reservoir for the purpose of
protecting water uses in Western Colorado.

(f) "c.f.s." means cubic feet of water per second of time.