2004 Steamboat Lake Lease and Sublease

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RECEIVED United States Department of the Interior OCT 29 2004 BUREAU OF RECLAMA TI 0 N !lPIorado Water ConsalVation Board Upper Colorado Regional Office 125 South State Street, Room 6107 Salt Lake City, Utah 84138-1102 IN REPLY REFER TO: UC-443 WTR-4,03 '('''' ? n ? "I 'i ,,V _ [,-,~O~, ~ - - . Director, Colorado Water Conservation Board 1313 Sherman Street, Room 721 Denver, CO 80203 Subject: Contract Number 04- WC-40-9050, for the Lease and Sublease of Steamboat Lake Water for Purposes of the Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Program for the Upper Colorado River Basin Dear Sirs/Madams: We received five copies of the subject contract on August 17, 2004. To satisfy National Environmental Policy Act requirements, on October 15, 2004, Reclamation completed a Categorical Exclusion Checklist which is enclosed for your information. After review by my staff and the Office of the Regional Solicitor, all copies ofthe subject contract have been signed and are therefore in full effect. This contract, effective through 2008, allows Reclamation to lease up to 2,000 acre-feet of Steamboat Lake Water from Colorado State Parks, and sublease same water to the Colorado Water Conservation Board to supplement Yampa River flows for the Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Program for the Upper Colorado River Basin. In accordance with paragraph 2 of this contract, Reclamation has initiated a $67,480 payment to Colorado State Parks for water released in August of2003. Three originals of the executed contract are enclosed for distribution to this letter's addressees, with the remaining originals to Reclamations Western Colorado Area office and to this office's Documentary Files. "..; "-"'-- ~,~,