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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />~,~ql <br /> <br />Agenda Item 19 <br />Endangered Fish Recovery Program <br /> <br />Meyring: <br /> <br />19a Acquisition <br /> <br />Jencsok: <br /> <br />worried about this for a long time. I <br />guess we will keep stewing about this for a long <br />time. Basically this issue relates to the methodology <br />and the process that u.s. Fish and wildlife Service <br />uses by instream flows and the procedures <br />that the Board would use to meet the requirement for <br />appropriate water rights for those stream flows. <br />Tom pitts representing the water users and John <br />Hamill from the Fish and wildlife service are also <br />here and they will be making some comments later on. <br />In your Board folders I have a memo that outlines the <br />basic issues that face us in this matter. I thought <br />I would run through the background, discuss briefly <br />the issue that needs to be addressed at this time and <br />basically what I would like from the Board is some <br />guidance on how we want to proceed of this in generic <br />terms and then some guidance specifically on an issue <br />on the Yampa River. As you recall in January, 1988, <br />the State of Colorado signed the recovery <br />implementation program agreement. Part of that <br />agreement was that water rights for the endangered <br />fish would be by the Fish and Wildlife Service <br />and appropriated in Colorado by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board under the instream flow statutes. <br />Under this process the Fish and Wildlife Service has <br />basically conducted studies on two streams so far. <br />One was on a 15 mile reach of the Colorado River and <br />they came up with flow recommendations for July, <br />August and September. The other one was for the <br />Yampa River extending <br /> <br />4204E* <br />