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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Notice of instream flow recommendations, the Board staff will conduct a range of technical <br />studies as required by the Policy. These include: <br /> <br />1. Physieal Water Availability Study <br />II. Estimating "Reasonably Foreseeable Development Water Needs" <br />111. Compact Analysis and Future Development Projection Study based on: <br />a) Best available hydrology and eonsumptive use data; <br />b) Colorado River and Upper Colorado River Basin Compacts; <br />c) Generous long-term projections of future water development; and <br />d) Other information. <br />IV. Determination of Paragraph 3 and 4 waters <br /> <br />These studies and analyses will be conducted by consultants or the Board staff in consultation <br />with the Board, the Board's Endangered Fish Subcommittee, the Colorado River Policy Advisory <br />Council, the Service, members of the Recovery Program and other interested parties. The <br />proposed plan of study includes physical water availability and compact studies for not only the <br />Yampa RiverILittle Snake River/White River and the Colorado River/Gunnison River, but also <br />for the Dolores and San Juan Rivers. Even though flow recommendations are not expected to <br />be made by the Service for the Dolores River in the near future, and the San Juan River and its <br />tributaries are subject to a separate "Recovery" agreement, they were included in this proposed <br />plan of study because compact issues are basin wide and not river specific. <br /> <br />The studies and analyses will include a comprehensive review of available gaging station records <br />for selected stream reaches, statistical analysis of the selected gaging station records and <br />presentation of flow data on a daily, monthly and annual basis in graphical and tabular form in <br />a final report. A review of past hydrologic studies, if any, on specific river basins will be done <br />to avoid duplication of work. <br /> <br />Phvsical Water Availabilitv Analysis <br /> <br />Water availability analyses will be conducted for each of the following stream reaches: <br /> <br />I. <br /> <br />Yampa River <br />a) Above Little Snake River to Craig, CO. <br />b) Below Little Snake River to Green River confluence. <br />Little Snake River <br />a) Lily, CO to the confluence of the Little Snake River and the Yampa River. <br />White River <br />a) Rangley, CO to the Colorado-Utah State line. <br />Colorado River <br />a) Rifle - Grand Valley Diversion Dam <br />b) Grand Valley Diversion Dam - Top 15 Mile Reach <br />c) 15 Mile Reach <br />d) Bottom 15 Mile Reach at Gunnison River confluence - Colorado-Utah Stateline. <br /> <br />II. <br /> <br />Ill. <br /> <br />IV. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />COW 0376 <br />