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<br />o3'~i'3~'l'~' <br /> <br />is determined and water rights issued after <br /> <br /> <br />implementation of the project and after a period <br /> <br /> <br />of measurement. <br /> <br />3. Determining quantity of water previously unavailable to <br />subsequent appropriators and assuring that other users <br />would not be harmed. <br /> <br />a. The effect of a reduction in return flows on other. <br />downstream appropriators continued to be a <br /> <br />concern. <br /> <br />b. Law limits conservation to a reduction in the <br /> <br />amount of water consumed or irretrievably lost in <br /> <br />the process of satisfying an existing beneficial use. <br /> <br /> <br />The rules do not further define either "water <br /> <br />consumption" or "irretrievably lost." The <br /> <br /> <br />advisory committee recommended this approach <br /> <br /> <br />to give the Department the broadest leeway in <br /> <br /> <br />determining the quantity conserved. <br /> <br />c. The law was amended in 1989 to permit <br /> <br /> <br />mitigation where harm to another water right was <br /> <br /> <br />expected. <br /> <br />4. Complexity of the application process. <br /> <br />a. The rule advisory committee was concerned that <br />the two-step process for allocating and <br />documenting the conserved water was too <br />complex and time consuming. The process would <br /> <br />7 <br />