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<br />STIPULATION
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<br />THIS STIPULATION is entered into as ofthis2(.1day of ~, 2000, by
<br />and between the Colorado Water Conservation Board, whose address is 1313 Sherman Street,
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203 ("CWCB"), and the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company,
<br />whose address is 5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 700, Denver, Colorado 80111 ("CC&V"),
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<br />WHEREAS, the eWCB has identified proposed instream flow ("ISF") amounts for
<br />Fourmile Creek as listed in Exhibit A, attached hereto, and has stated its intention to claim an
<br />appropriation date of January 26, 2000, for these amounts, except for 0,8 cfs on the High Creek
<br />to Cripple Creek reach, for which the Board shall claim an appropriation date of September 26,
<br />2000; and
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<br />. ' WHEREAS, CC& V has a direct interest in the CWCli's ISF proposal for Fourmile Creek
<br />because CC&V has filed ari:application with the Water Court to confirm its appropriative right
<br />of exchange .as described in the application in Case No, 98CW115, Water Division 2 (attached
<br />hereto as Exhibit B), said exchange right having an appropriation date of September 18, 1998; ancl
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<br />WHEREAS, CC& V intends to use its appropriative right of exchange to move senior water
<br />rights up Fourmile Creek to various points of diversion as described in the application for Case
<br />No, 98CW1l5,Water Division 2, for use at the Cresson Mine Project; and
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<br />WHEREAS, to protect its ,appropriative right of exchange, CC&V has objected to the
<br />CWCB's ISF proposal arguing that the amounts requested are too ,high, that there is not enough.
<br />water in Fourmile Creek for the ISF proposal if ,all senior water rights (including CC&V's
<br />appropriative right of exchange) are accounted for, and that the appropr.i~tiori date for ,the ISF
<br />proposal cannot'be any earlier than the date the CWCB makes the required statutory findings
<br />specified in C,R,S. s 37-92-102(3); and
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<br />WHEREAS, the CWeB does not intend to injure CC& V's a.ppropriative right of exchange,
<br />including the right of CC&V to use.that exchange rIght to move senior water rights up Fourmile
<br />Creek as described in the application for Case No.' 98CW 115, Water Division 2, CC& V and the
<br />CWCR. have work<::d together to develop terms and conditions that will allow CC&V's
<br />appropriative right of exchange and the proposed ISF rights to coexist without ,injury to any of
<br />these rights; and
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<br />WHEREAS, on the basis of this Stipulation, CC& V is willing to withdraw its objections
<br />to GWCB's ISF proposal, as listed in Exhibit A, .
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<br />NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the abovNecited premises which the parties
<br />acknowledge to be good and sufficient consideration for this Stipulat~on, the parties agree as
<br />follows:
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