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I ..-' Memorandum David Walker' Public Use Facilities October 30, 1987 3. Senate Bill 537 passed by the General Assembly in 1979 authorized the Board to expend $500,000 for land purchase and recreation and fish and wildlife facilities in the Closed Basin Diversion. Senate Bill 27, passed in 1986. inc~eased authorized eWCB funds for the Closed Basin Div.tsion to $625,000, 4. Memorandum of Understanding concerning the fish and wildlife and recreation enhancement facilities of the Closed Basin Divirsion was executed in October 1984 by the Executive Director, DNR, and the Directors of the Board and DOW. A pertinent provision of the MOU provided that the DOW would expend up to $204,000 (expressed in October 1982 prices) for the reimbursable costs allocable to fish and wildlife. (The $204,000 indexed to 1987 prices would total $238,300. (Increase of 16.8 percent based on ENR cost index) 5. P.L. 98-570 passed by the U.S. Congress in October 1984 amended the authorizing legislation by deleting the proposed Mishak National Wildlife Refuge and substituting the Russell Lakes Waterfowl Management area and furnishing a water supply for the latter by purchase of required lands with appurtenant water rights. Included in the Russell Lake area are 720 acres of school land which the Board must purchase and convey to the Bureau at a cost of $61,200. 6. Due to apparent disagreement between the Bureau and the DOW based on the reluctance of the DOW to convey lands it owns in the Russell Lakes area to the Bureau, the Bureau is proposing that the Board purchase one additional section (640 acres) of school land in the Russell Lakes area, This additional land would add $54,400 to the Board's cost. 7, A Lease Agreement and Contract between the United States and the state of Colorado for repayment of the separable costs for recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement facilities in the Head-San Luis Lakes area and for OM&R of such facilities was executed on February 21, 1985. This document obligated the state (CWCB) to pay $375,000 for separable recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement facilities in the Head-San Luis Lakes area. This agreement was signed by the Executive Director DNR, and by the Directors of the Board and the Division of Wildlife. 8. According to our latest estimate, approximately 1,843 acres of school land would be required for project facilities, Additionally, 720 acre of school land it the Russell Lakes "l -2-