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<br />(::> <br />o <br />~ <br />,::- <br />t,;! <br />o <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />721 Centennial Building <br />1) 13 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (03) 866-3441 <br />FNC (lOl) 866,4474 <br /> <br />STATE OF COLORl\DO <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Jolmes S. lochhe.1o <br />Executive DlreClor, DNR <br />Dilne, C.lile. P.E. <br />Director. (WeB <br />Janice Sheftel, CWCB San Juan Basin representative (All Water Districts) <br />Fred Kroeger, Southwestern Colorado Water Conservation District <br />(All Water Districts) <br />Steve Harris, Animas-La Plata WCD (Water District 30 &33) <br />Jack Rogers, City of Durango (Water District 30) <br />Don Schwindt, Dolores WCD (Water District 32) <br />John Porter, Dolores WCD (Water District 32) <br />John Ey, Florida WCD (Water District 30) <br />James Isgar, La Plata WCD (Water District 33) <br />Brice Lee, La Plata WCD (Water District 33) <br />Gary Kennedy, Mancos WCD (Water District 34) <br />Jack Delange, San Juan WCD (Water District 29,31, 46, 77 & 78) <br />John Taylor, Piedra representative (Water District 46 & 78) <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Roy Romer <br />CO~efl10r <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Randy Seaholm, CWCB staff <br />Ken Beegles, Division 7 Water Engineer <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />July 14, 1997 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Review of Environmental Baseline for the San Juan River Recovery <br />Implementation Program ("SJRRIP") <br /> <br />Purpose <br /> <br />The U,S, Fish and Wildlife Service ("USF&WS") has requested that the States of <br />Colorado and New Mexico; (I) verify the consumptive use of water from the San Juan <br />Basin, and (2) identify the water rights in existence, at the time the environmental <br />baseline was established for the Animas-La Plata Project ("ALP") Reasonable and <br />Prudent Alternative ("RPA"), The reason for this request is that the RPA for ALP also <br />serves as the RP A for all historic depletions occurring in the San Juan Basin at the time <br />the Section 7 consultation for ALP occurred (i.e, October 25,1991), The USF&WS <br />environmental baseline includes the past and present impacts of all Federal, State and <br />private actions and other human activities in the action area; the anticipated impacts of all <br />proposed Federal projects in the action area that have already undergone section 7 <br />consultation; and the impact of State or private actions contemporaneous with the <br />consultation process, <br />