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<br />. Change of use of donated water rights <br /> <br />Rio Grande Basin (14) <br />. Groups Appeal San Juan-Chama Diversion <br />. Great Sand Dunes Update <br /> <br />Agency News (Page 18) <br /> <br />. New ISF Staff <br />. New AG Representation <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />San Jnan/ Dolores River Basin (Page 15) <br /> <br />. 'Impaired' Status For Dolores River <br />Challenged <br />. Mine Cleanup Improves Water <br />. Navajo Indian Water Rights Settlement <br />. Southwestern Board Concerned About Fish <br />Methodology <br /> <br />Attachments (Page 20) <br /> <br />Yampa and White River Basin (Page 17) <br /> <br />. Steamboat Lake Water Lease Renewed <br />. New Water Commission Proposed <br /> <br />. De minimis Cases <br />. Loan Repayment Delinquency and <br />Financial Activity Report <br />. Design & Construction Status Report <br />. Loan Prospects Report <br />. QQ Notes <br />. Letters to EP A <br />. Fish Methodology Letter <br /> <br />Federal and Interstate <br /> <br />NM Interstate Stream Commission Endorses Water Management Initiatives: New Mexico's <br />Interstate Stream Commissioners passed a resolution to support a framework for statewide Active <br />Water Resource Management rules and regulations at a meeting in Santa Fe on July 20. <br /> <br />Active Water Resource Management refers to a broad range of activities which emphasize pennitting <br />transfers, monitoring and metering diversions, and limiting diversion of water to the amount authorized . <br />by existing water rights ~ll within the prior appropriation system. Draft rules and regulations were <br />released on June 28. <br /> <br />The rules are the result of state legislation passed in 2003. The legislation specifically recognized New <br />Mexico's need for water rights administration, compliance with interstate compacts and that the State <br />Engineer can administer water rights before the completion of adjudications. This requires the State <br />Engineer to adopt rules for water administration and promote expedited marketing and leasing of water <br />in areas affected by priority administration. <br /> <br />Bush Administration Commits $15 Million for Watersheds: On July 19 EP A Administrator Mike <br />Leavitt arrnounced 14 watersheds - representing 17 states - are eligible for $15 million from EPA's <br />Targeted Watersheds Grant Program. The selected areas represent more than 20,000 square miles of <br />rivers, lakes and streams. Since 2003, more than $30 million has been provided through the Targeted <br />Watersheds Grant Program. <br /> <br />The watersheds eligible to apply for this grant money are: <br /> <br />Nashua River, Massachusetts and New <br />Hampshire <br />Ipswich River, Massachusetts <br />Passaic River, New Jersey <br />Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania <br />Cape Fear, North Carolina <br />Sangamon River, Illinois <br />Kalamazoo River, Michigan <br /> <br />Fourche Creek, Arkansas <br />Upper Mississippi River, Iowa <br />Bear River, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming <br />Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada <br />Siuslaw River, Oregon <br />Dungeness River, Washington <br />Kenai River, Alaska <br />