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. STA~ OF COLORADO o Colorado Water Conservation Board Department of Natural Resources 721 State Centennial Building 1313 Sherman Street Denver. Colorado 80203 Phone (303) 866-3441 FAX (303) 8664474 Roy Romer Governor James S, Lochhead Executive Director, DNR Daries C,1i1e, P.E. Director, CWCB MEMORANDUM TO: Notification List - Files FROM: E. I. Jencsok DATE: September 15, 1995 SUBJECT: October 10 and 20, 1995, Special Board Meetings - Endangered Fish Recovery Program Preliminary Notice, Water Division 6, Yampa River, Moffat County Water Division 5, Colorado River, Mesa County The attached Preliminary Notice includes recommendations from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Colorado River Recovery Implementation Program for the appropriation of endangered fish recovery instream flows for the Yampa River from its confluence with the Williams Fork River to the Little Snake River1 in Moffat County, and for the "15 Mile Reach" (i.e. between Palisade and Grand Junction) of the Colorado River near Grand Junction in Mesa County. The purpose of the special Board meetings on October 10, 1995, in Craig and on October 20, 1995, in Grand Junction will be to consider the FWS flow recommendations, evaluate the physical and legal availability of water pursuant to See, 37-92-102 (3), CRS (1990), consider the staff's recommendations for the appropriation of instream flow water rights for the recovery of the endangered fish, select a preferred approach, and advance the resulting instream flow recommendations to Final Notice Status for action at the special Board meeting on December 1, 1995, in Denver, Colorado. This Preliminary Notice constitutes the start of the public review process defined in Sections 12.00-12.03 of the Colorado Instream Flow and Natural Lake Level Program's Rules and Regulations (ISF Rules). ] The Board may extend the instream flow segment downstream to the Dinosaur National Monument boundary and upstream to Craig.