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<br />Agenda Item 211 Attachment 4 <br /> <br />FATRFIELDANVWOODS, P.C. <br />A TIORNEYS AND COUNSELORS ^ T LAW <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Ono NONesf Center, Suit. 2doo . <br />1700 Lincoln SIreet . <br />Denver, Colorado 30203-4'24 <br />Telephone; (303) 830-2400 <br />f...imilc: (303) 830.1033 <br /> <br />Stephen II. Leonhardt <br />(303) 894-4412 <br />sleollhar@lfwl~w.com <br /> <br />March 26, 1999 <br /> <br />VIA FACSIMIU; and U.S. MAIL (970) 663-3212 <br /> <br />Mr. Dan Jewell, Acting Area Manager <br />Ms. JUlie Swanda <br />F.asfem Colorado Area Uffice <br />United States Bureau of Reclamation <br />11056 West County Road 18-E <br />Loveland, Colorado <br /> <br />Rc: MOA for 21.650 Acrc-Feet of Ruedi Reservoir Water for Emlalll!cred Fish <br /> <br />Dear Dan and Iulie: <br /> <br />(. Sieve Arveschoug previously wrote to you. expressing the SOUtheasTern Cotorndo Water <br />Conservancy District's general concern regarding the MOA you l:T:lnsmitted to the U.S. fish and <br />WlIdllte Service, for furnishing 21.650 acre.feeT from Ruedi Reservoir this year. Southeastern's <br />concern is that the MOA doe.~ M(r.l('.arly provide that the Bureau's operation of Ruedi Reservoir, <br />including deliveries of water under the MOA, must fully comply with the Fryingpan Arkansas <br />Project ()F~,'ating Principles. <br /> <br />We bave a related, more specific concern with the MOA. Articlc 3.a provides for a lease <br />and sublease of "21,650 tlere fellt of water from the regulatory capacity of Ruedi Rcservoir, as <br />defined in Article 8 hereof. . . .' Howevcr, Article 8 of the MOA deals with envirOWllt:lllal <br />compliance, m:l. says nothing about the regulatory capacity or Ruedi Rc~crvoir. let alone define <br />!be regulatory capacity. This appean to Ix: a clc;u crrur in1l1t MOA \hat needs to be correcte4 <br />before the MOA is executed. <br /> <br />Perhaps the best way W eum:.:1 lhis error would be to add a definition of "regulatory <br />capacity" in Aruclc 1 uf thc MOA, and in Article 3.a to rcfer to the appropriate provision of <br />Article I, roithcr I.ban 10 Artiel!: 8. The defmltion or the regulatory capacity should he hy <br />refel1:W: W the Operdting Principles. as is the de!lnition of "repl:1cemenr capacity" in Article 1.d <br />of lhc MOA. At the same time. you should revise Article 3.d to provide that any relea.'e~, <br /> <br />. <br />