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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I J ,.....,r. ~ ,', ".::;..1.... Administratian passed a resalutian requesting the Bureau af Reclamation to cammence with a review af the aperating principles in accardance with Kansas' Condition 4. III. DEFINITIONS A list of definitions of terms used in the operating principles, the repart, and the appendices is as fallaws: 1. District. - The Purgatoire River Water Canservancy District. This ent ity was created and exi sts under 1 aws af the State of Co. larado to cantract far repayment to. the United States of an apprapriate share af the project costs allacated to irrigatian use. The District shall also. be the agency responsible far the regulation of irrigatian water supplies within the district boundaries. 2. Irrigatian Capacity. - The 20,000 acre-feet af reservair capacity alla- cated to. irrigatian plus the unsedimented partian af the jaint-use capacity. 3. Model Right. - The original Madel reservair right to. store 20,000 acre-feet af water from the flaws af the purgatai re Ri ver, under reservai r priarity No.. 10 in Water District No.. 19 at a rate af flaw nat exceeding 700 cubic feet per secand of time under date of appropriatian of January 22, 1908, as decreed by the District Court of Las Animas County, Colarada, on January 12, 1925. The decree was transferred to. Trinidad Reservair and the District, made part of the District, and referred to now as the "Transferred Model Starage Right". 4. Jaint-Use Decree. - A decree (April 27, 1972, Water Division No.2, District Caurt, Case No.. W-130) which allows far the storage in Trinidad Reservoir in additian to. storage under the transferred Madel right, any flaod flaws originating an the Purgataire River above Trinidad Dam which wauld ather- wise spil,l fram John Martin Reservoir. Star age is limited to the partion of the 39,000 acre-feet of reservai r capac ity all acated to jo i nt use unoccupi ed by sediment at any given time. 5. 1961 Study. - The original "Appendix A - Water Supply and Utilization, April 1961." Studies were on a water year basis and assumed equal sharing with all entities in the praject. All flows based on monthly analysis. 6. 1964 Study. - The "Append i x A Supp 1 ement - Revi sed Water Supp ly and Utilizatian, April 1964." A revision of the 1961 Appendix A which modified Trinidad Project aperations to. recagnize and give some advantage to thase indi- viduals halding the mast seniar water rights and the Madel Land and Irrigatian Campany which had pravided the starage right. Studies were placed an a calendar year basis. 7. Histarical Model Reservair Operatian. - Histarical aperatian in the area with the Madel Reservair af 6,000 acre-feet capacity at its histarical lacatian. 8. Rehabilitated Madel Reservair Operation. - Operatian which wauld have accurred if the Madel Reservai r had been rehabi 1 itated with the full 20,000 acre-feet of starage capac ity ava i 1 ab 1 e at its hi star i ca 1 lacat ian and with the present ditches administered an a priority basis throughout the 1925-1957 study periOd of 1961 and 1964 Studies. 5