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<br />V. Relationship to RIPRAP: <br /> <br />A. Colorado River Mainstem Activity Items for all remaining work in FY-1997. <br />B. Yampa River Activity Item Number: I.A4.b(3) and I.B.4.b. <br />C. Little Snake River Activity Item Number I.C.3. <br />D. White River Activity Item Number: lB.l. <br /> <br />VI. Accomplishments ofFY 97 Tasks and Deliverables: <br /> <br />Two instream flow water rights were decreed on September 2, 1997 in the Colorado River <br />for the benefit of the endangered fish. Case Number 92CW286 (581 cfs from Iuly 1 <br />through September 30, from the tailrace common to the Grand Valley Power Plant and <br />Orchard Mesa District pumping plant to Grand Valley Diversion Dam on the Colorado <br />River, hereinafter referred to as the "15 Mile Reach"), and Case Number 94CW330 (300 <br />cfs of accretions to the downstream two miles of the 15 Mile Reach from Iuly 1 through <br />September 30). <br /> <br />Coordination between Recovery Program agencies and interested parties continued <br />through several meetings to continue discussions and negotiations on the CWCB instream <br />flow filings regarding the 15 Mile Reach Strategy activities. Policy and legal work <br />continued on Case Numbers 5-95CW296 and 5-95CW297 in the Colorado River. <br /> <br />In order to perfect the water rights that the CWCB appropriated in 1995, the staffis <br />actively participating in the Yampa River Management Team (see Annual Report for <br />Project Number Cap 9a). Policy and legal work continued on Case Numbers 6-95CW155 <br />and 6-95CW156 in the Yampa River. <br /> <br />All of the tasks identified above in Item V.A and V.B. were accomplished except for all <br />activities on the Colorado River from Rifle to the Roller Dam and the Roller Dam to the <br />15 Mile Reach, as these flow recommendations have not yet been identifited by the FWS. <br />Legal activities continued on Case Numbers 95CW296, 95CW297, 95CW155 and <br />95CW156. Scientific evaluations offlow recommendations for the Little Snake and White <br />rivers were not conducted as these recommendations have not yet been developed by the <br />FWS. <br /> <br />VII. Recommendations: <br /> <br />The CWCB staff recommends that the necessary actions be taken to resolve the <br />administrative, policy, legal and institutional issues continue between the appropriate <br />parties, in order to fully implement and protect these instream flow water rights for the <br />benefit of the four federally endangered fishes of the Upper Colorado River Basin. <br /> <br />vm. Project Status: <br /> <br />2 <br />