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<br />'"~' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />> <br /> <br />a five year lease to enhance flows and habitat for the endangered fishes in the Yampa <br />River below Craig. <br /> <br />f" <br /> <br />Discussion <br /> <br />ItO;J~ <br />p <br /> <br />,~ <br /> <br />, <br />( , <br />Parks holds an absolute storage decree (casto. 90-CW-Ol) for ~300 af with <br />an appropriation date of May, 1968, and ~ ~ "j '-n~iBlI. date ()t ~ 1990, for <br />Steamboat Lake near Steamboat in Water Division 6. Decreed benefiCIal uses include <br />II municipal, fishery, recreation, industrial, and irrigation of 1,000 acres located below <br />Steamboat Lake on the Elk and Y ampa Drainages~1 While the decree does not state <br />that the fishery use is for instream uses, Park believes that water can be released for <br />this purpose from Steamboat Lake. <br /> <br />~ <br />A number of meetings have been held to discuss ;rProposed lease of 2,000 af <br />per year for 5 years at a rate of $lOjaf. It was envisioned that the Service would enter <br />ct.V\... <br />into a ime agreement 'Y!th P~rks. and the,Board whereby water would be leased to <br />. .,,^.<.,~-~,~^-,--- <br />and paid for by the Recovery Program and subsequently re-Ieased to the Board for <br /> <br />delivery to the endangered fish habitat between Craig and the eastern boundary of the <br /> <br />Dinosaur National Monument. f'~ -tc ~ B~ ~t....~ ~~-'- <br />~ _ '07-~2 -102..C:~) C Rs] <br />~ .::Gt 1> \-r"ovYl1 B:'b...0 ~ <br />~ <br /> <br />After review of the decree and discussions with the Attorney General's Office, <br />the staff believes that the existing decree does not allow the release of water from <br />storage for instream flow purposes. <br /> <br />EIJ j gl <br /> <br />gl097,agi <br /> <br />i;; <br /> <br />~', . <br />