PROJ00546

• Contract/PO #: C150005
• Contractor Name: Loveland, City of
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 0
• County: Larimer
• Bill Number: HB 98-1189
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
721 Centennial Building
, 3' 3 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

STATE OF COLORADO

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RESOLUTION
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD .

Roy Romer
Governor
James s. lochhe"d
Executive Director, DNR
DariesC lile, P.E.
Director, CWC~

The Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular session meeting this 25th day of
November 1997, is hereby RESOLVED that:

Whereas, the Colorado Water Conservation Board is the state agency responsible for
the conservation and development of the waters of the state apportioned to Colorado by
interstate compact, and the encouragement of the development of those waters for the benefit
of the citizens of the state of Colorado, all as more fully set forth in C.R.S. S37-60-106; and

Whereas, from 1968 to the present, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has been
continually on record in support of the construction of the Anima<-La Plata Project, a
Colorado River Storage Project Act participating project; and

Whereas, the Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and its members
have regularly testified before Committees of the U.S. Congress in support of the construction
of the Animas-LaPlata Project; and

Whereas, the Colorado Wat~ Conservation Board, together with other agencies and
instrumentalities of the state of Colorado, participated in the negotiation of the Colorado Ute
Indian Water Rights Settlement of 1986 which served to resolve all of the reserved water
rights claims of the two Colorado Ute Indian Tribes in a way that produced comity,
cooperation and harmony in the allocation of the rivers of Colorado's Southwest; and

Whereas, a feature of that settlement was the agreement by the state of
Colorado, the citizens of Southwestern Colorado, the federal government and the two
Colorado Ute Indian Tribes that the construction of the A nima<-LaPlata Project and the
allocation of a portion of the water supply from that project to the two tribes would be a part
of the resolution of the Colorado Ute Indian reserve water right claims and in particular, those
claims associated with the Anima< and the LaPlata Rivers; and

Whereas, the Congress of the United States adopted and ratified the 1986 Colorado
Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement by the passage of the Colorado Ute Indian Water
Rights Settlement Act of 1988; and

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