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<br />" <br /> <br />Agreement No. 14-48-0006-96-907 <br />DeN: 60181-6-6032 <br />Amount: $32,000.00 <br /> <br />LEASE AND SUBLEASE <br /> <br />THIS LEASE AND SUBLEASE is entered into this 17th day of <br />April , 1996, by and among United States Fish and Wildlife <br />Serviee, P.O. Box 25486 DFC, Denver, Colorado 80225-0486 <br />("Service"), the Colorado Division of Parks and Outdoor <br />Reereation, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 618, Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />("Parys"), and the Colorado Water Conservation Board, 1313 Sherman <br />Street, Room 721, Denver, Colorado 80203 ("CWCB"). <br /> <br />Recitals <br /> <br />WHEREAS, under the Endangered Speeies Act, the Service is <br />responsible for the proteetion and recovery of threatened and <br />endangered species, ineluding four endangered fish speeies in the <br />Upper Colorado River Basin; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, section 7 of the Endangered Species Aet, 16 U.S.C. ~ <br />1536, requires the Serviee to eonsult with other federal agencies <br />to insure that any aetion authorized, funded, or earried out by <br />sueh ageneies is not likely to jeopardize the continued existenee <br />of any endangered or threatened speeies or result in the <br />destruetion or adverse modifieation of eritieal habitat of sueh <br />species; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, seetion 2 of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. ~ <br />1531(C) (2), declares that it is the policy of Congress for federal <br />ageneies to eooperate with state and loeal agencies to resolve <br />water resouree issues in eoneert with eonservation of endangered <br />speeies; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Upper Colorado River Basin states, including the <br />State of Colorado, play a key role in determining how the river <br />system's water resources are developed and have a corresponding <br />interest in legal requirements that eould constrain water resources <br />development; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the states, including the State of Colorado, <br />historieally have been responsible for managing resident fish and <br />wildlife resourees, including threatened or endangered speeies that <br />oceur within their territories (see, e.q., ~ 33-2-102, C.R.S.; <br />Cooperative Agreement between U.S. Dept. of Interior, Fish and <br />Wildlife Serviee, and Colorado Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of <br />Wildlife, for Conservation of Endangered and Threatened Fish or <br />Wildlife (1976); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the CWCB is a state agency ereated for the purpose of <br />aiding in the proteetion and development of the waters of the state <br />for the benefit of the state's present and future inhabitants, <br />(~37-60-102, C.R.S.); and <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />,<O~__>, 'A-;___";__ ",;..' <br /> <br />~;.;,h"..:&t, <br />