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<br />o <br /> <br />(c) No Material Injury Rule. <br />(d) Conditional Rights. <br />(e) Subordination ofUSFWS Instream Row Rights. <br />(f) Conditional to Absolute Instrearn Row Conversions. <br />(g) Leases for Instream Flow. <br />(h) Decrees and Instream Row Releases. <br />(i) Salvaged and Saved Water <br />(j) Institutional Responses to Uncertainty. <br /> <br />Category III - <br /> <br />(a) "Minimum Requirements/Reasonable Degree". <br />(b) Distinctions Between Instream and Consumptive Use Rights. <br />(c) Condemnation. <br />(d) Variability in Instream Row Right Definitions. <br />(e) RIP and Other Fishery Needs. <br /> <br />The group then focused its efforts on two of the Category I issues: 1) The Impact of the Legal <br /> <br />Protection of Instream Rows on Colorado's Ability to Develop its Apportionment under the 1922 <br /> <br />Colorado River Compact and the 1948 Upper Colorado River Compact, and 2) Interim Instream <br /> <br />Row Rights, expanded to include other water acquisition strategies. Regarding the compact issue, <br /> <br />GURU II members adopted the following four-step process for addressing possible conflicts <br /> <br />between Compact apportionment and endangered fish needs: <br /> <br />Step 1. Quantification of Colorado's compact apportionment on a stream-by stream basis. <br />Step 2. Interim Instrearn Row Protection Possibilities. <br />Step 3. Detennination of Potential Conflicts. <br />Step 4. Juniper-Cross Conversion Detennination. <br /> <br />The derivation of strategies for water acquisition and their application to specific water <br /> <br />resource allocation situations in Colorado was a two-step process. The first step was to identify <br /> <br />various strategies generically, and the second was to detennine during what seasons of the year <br /> <br />each of these strategies should be applied on what rivers in Colorado. Listed below are the various <br /> <br />generic strategies identified by the group: <br /> <br />(1) Establishment of an Absolute Junior Water Right. <br />(2) Establishment of a Interim Instream WaterRight. <br />(3) Establishment of Combined Absolute and Interim Water Right. <br />(4) Acquisition of an Existing Absolute Water Right. <br />(5) Acquisition of an Existing Conditional Water Right. <br />(6) Non-federal Rights to Reservoir Storage. <br />(7) Reservoir Re-operation. <br />(8) Salvage Water. <br /> <br />At its last facilitated session in July of 1992, GURU II members detennined which of the <br /> <br />jji <br />