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<br />.> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />]:Yater Board <br /> <br />Continued from 6 <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation <br />has been meeting with water <br />users, trying to come up with an <br />amount of water they will need <br />in order to study the endan- <br />gered fish. After they quantify <br />the amount, they \'\.>ill enter into <br />a contract for five to seven <br />years, then negotiate a new, per- <br />manent, contract. <br />Martineau said the working <br />gr?up's Nov. 30 meeting was <br />cancelled because of a heavy <br />workload at the Bureau, and a <br />new date has yet to be set. <br />The endangered fish recov- <br />ery program's deadline for the <br />contract is April, 1995, and, "In <br />my mind, there's absolutely no <br />way they can have that (water <br />deli\'ery) contract in place," <br />Martineau said. He also said he <br />doesn't think water users in the <br />upper basin will be affected bv <br />downstream c~115 this yea"r <br />because of the delay. <br />In other board action the <br />board heard very little o'n an <br />update on status of U.s. Sen. <br />Ben Nighthorse Campbell's <br />Black Canyon proposed legisla- <br />tIOn to make the Black Canyon <br />into a national park. The plan <br />has 1x'comc contentious mainly <br />because of a change in the "VVild <br /> <br />and Scenic" designation of the <br />Gunnison River through the <br />Black Canyon being considered <br />by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board. <br />T~at board is considering <br />addIng language to the bill <br />which states that the designa- <br />tIOn "can't Jimit upstream uses <br />of water," a phrase \\'hich is <br />unacceptable to some environ- <br />mentalists. <br />Representing High Country <br />Citizens' Alliance, Steve Glaze'r <br />told the water board that HCCA <br />has withdrawn from discussions <br />on finding a compromise <br />between environmentalists and <br />other land users in the language <br />of the bill. <br />"We're putting it on a back <br />burner," Glazer said of the <br />Crested Butte-based environ- <br />mental group. 'We will oppose <br />the proposed language," as it is <br />being considered by the CWCB. <br />Lee Spann, board member of <br />the Upper Gunnison, asked <br />Glazer why environmentalists <br />want the Wild and Scenic desig- <br />nation when the river is already <br />wild. <br /> <br />"National environmental <br />groups are starling to look at <br />that question right now;' Glazer <br />responded . <br /> <br />l}f}tJ~24 <br />