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<br />..1_1 ..li. <br /> <br />Stream and Lake Protection Section <br />Strategic Plan <br /> <br />Draft <br /> <br />October 21, 2004 <br /> <br />Section Mission <br /> <br />Preserve, improve, and protect Colorado's natural environment to a reasonable degree through the use of instream <br />flow (ISF) and natural lake level (NLL) water rights. <br /> <br />Section Fundamental Obiectives <br /> <br />The fundamental objectives of the Strearn and Lake Protection (SLP) Section relate to three key areas of <br />practice - current authorities, program applications, and program advocacy. <br /> <br />1. Obiectives related to Current Authorities: <br />The SLP Section, through the CWCB, has the <br />exclusive authority to appropriate waters of natural <br />streams and lakes to preserve the natural environment <br />to a reasonable degree, and to acquire such water, <br />water rights or interests to preserve or improve the <br />natural environment to a reasonable degree. <br /> <br />Base Programs Related to Current Authorities: <br /> <br />Legal protection <br />Physical protection <br />New Appropriations <br /> <br />Engineering and Water Quality <br />ISF Methodology and Biology <br />Water Acquisitions <br /> <br />As a result of this authority, the CWCB must provide the SLP Section with the legal. technical and policv staff, <br />and associated resources necessary to administer the program, in accordance with the statutes and maintain the <br />base programs required to perform the duties specified in statute. <br /> <br />2, Obiectives related to Prol!ram Applications: <br />The SLP Section is tasked with using the CWCB's <br />authorities and resources, embodied in part by the <br />Section's base programs, to support the mission of the <br />CWCB which includes the protection, conservation, <br />management and development of the waters of the <br />State. <br /> <br />Critical to the application of the Section's programs to <br />this objective is applying the Section's base programs <br />to facilitate multiuse water projects (both structural <br />and non-structural) in the State by correlating the <br />activities of mankind with some reasonable <br />preservation, and where possible improvement, of the <br />natural environment. The Section's multiuse project <br />facilitation efforts will focus on leveraging the <br />benefits of the Section's Programs (e.g., lSF, NLL, <br />W AP) to conserve, manage, protect and develop the <br />waters of the State to the benefit of its citizens. <br /> <br />Page 1 of2 <br /> <br />Direct and Indirect Benefits of the SLP Programs <br />include: <br /> <br />. Provide for the needs of mankind while preserving <br />the natural environment to a reasonable degree <br />. Protection of historical uses <br />. Protection of compact requirements <br />. Protection of native species <br />. NEP A mitigation and pennitting <br />. Project funding <br />. USACE pennitting <br />. By-pass flow resolution and management <br />. River and stream restoration <br />. Water supply protection <br />. Water quality stabilization <br />. Recreation <br />. Aesthetics <br />