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<br />" <br /> <br />, <br />. . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />water therein, including those laws of the State of Colorado relating to the establishment of <br /> <br />minimum streamflows for the reasonable protection of the natural environment to the extent that <br /> <br />such laws are not inconsistent with the operating principles; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Ruedi Reservoir, located on the Fryingpan River above the town of Basalt, was <br /> <br />authorized and constructed as a feature of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the regulatory capacity of Ruedi Reservoir is that portion of the Reservoir's total <br /> <br />capacity which is not needed for the storage of water to permit Project diversions at times when <br /> <br />such diversions could not otherwise be made because of simultaneous demands of senior <br /> <br />diversions in western Colorado, existing at the time of the adoption of the operating principles; <br /> <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the operating principles provide that water stored in the regulatory capacity of <br /> <br />Ruedi Reservoir may be sold or leased by the United States to water users in Colorado for any <br /> <br />purpose recognized by the laws of the United States; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Supplemental Decree for the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project entered by the <br /> <br />Garfield County District Court, Colorado, in Civil Action 4613 on August 3, 1959, allows water <br /> <br />stored in the regulatory capacity ofRuedi Reservoir to be sold or leased by the United States to <br /> <br />water users in western Colorado for any purpose recognized by the laws of the United States; and <br /> <br />3 <br />