C153456 Contract

• Contract/PO #: C153456
• Contractor Name: Grand Valley Irrigation Company
• Water District: 0
• County: Mesa
• Bill Number: XB 99-999
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Contract Documents

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AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is dated this day of ,
1986, and is between the STATE OF COLORADO (State), acting by and
through the COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD (Board), and the
GRAND VALLEY IRRIGATION COMPANY, a Colorado nonprofit corporation
(Contractor) .

RECITALS:

A. The Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) is authorized
to construct, operate and maintain the Grand Valley unit,
Colorado (Unit) pursuant to the Colorado River Basin Salinity
Control act, 43 U.S.C. S 15?l, et ~. (Public Law 93-320, as
amended by Public Law 98-569) (Act) for the purpose of reducing
salinity in the Colorado River from the seepage of irrigation
water from irrigated lands of the Grand Valley.

B. Contractor is a mutual irrigation company organized
pursuant to sections 7-42-101, C.R.S., et seq., owning and
operating the following canals: Grand Valley Mainline Canal,
Grand Valley Highline Canal, Independent Ranchmen's Ditch, Mesa
County Ditch, Kiefer Extension, and the 260 Mainline, being an
extension of the old Mesa County Ditch (Contractor's Main
Canals) . Contractor furnishes irrigation water to its users
through headgates on Contractor's Main Canals, such water
thereafter flowing through a system of private ditches (Laterals)
owned and operated by private individuals, groups, unincorporated
associations, and incorporated mutual ditch or lateral companies.

C. The Act contemplates salinity control measures that
include the lining of Laterals, replacing Laterals with pipe, and
the combining of existing Laterals to fewer and more efficient
facilities. Prior to initiation of the construction of the Unit,
the Secretary is required to enter into contracts with
non-federal entities for the long term operation and maintenance
of the improved Lateral systems that shall reimburse such
non-federal entities with the costs of operation and maintenance
to the extent they exceed expenses which would have been incurred
absent the construction of the Unit.

D. The Board has solicited Contractor to be and constitute
a non-federal entity for the purpose of implementing salinity
control under the Act, and Contractor has indicated its
willingness to do so, including a willingness to acquire such
power and authority, and undertake such action, as is necessary
to acquire easements and rights-of-way over the Laterals for the
purpose of lining the same, construction of the Unit insofar as
it pertains to Laterals receiving their water from Contractor's