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<br />. :>GLl <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />R <br /> <br />Report of the Regional Director <br /> <br />to July, inclusive, providing the natural flow during said period <br />is not less than these amounts. The obligation to supply the <br />minimum stream flow as set forth in the above table on the Roaring <br />Fork River shall, to the extent of 3,000 acre-feet annUally, be a <br />project obligation to be supplied from any waters diverted from <br />the south tributaries of H\mter Creek, Lime Creek, Last Chance <br />Creek, or any of them. <br /> <br />The TWin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company .hall not <br />be required to refrain from diverting water mder its existing <br />decrees from the Roaring Fork River except to the extent that a <br />like quantity of replacement water is furnished to said company <br />wi thout charge therefor through and by mean. of project diver- <br />sions. <br /> <br />If ~ reason of storage capacity in the A~pen neservoir, <br />the Twin Lakee Reservoir and Canal Company derives additional <br />water or other benefits or advantages it would not have realized <br />had this project not been constructed, then nothing herein <br />contained shall prevent the project from making appropriate charges <br />for Buch water or other benefits or advantages. <br /> <br />11. All lands acquired for project construction and opera- <br />tion and water surfaces of project reservoirs will be open to the <br />public for recreational purposes, excepting those areas reserved <br />u,y the operating agency. <br /> <br />12. The project will b. operated in such a manner that <br />those in ~astern Colorado using project water imported from the <br />Colorado River Basin for domestic purposes shall have preferenoe <br />over those claiming or using water for any other purpose. <br /> <br />13. The prcject is to be operated in such a manner as <br />to secure the greatest benefit from the use and re-uae of imported <br />project waters within project boundaries in the State of Colorado. <br /> <br />14. Any and all benefits erxl rights of Western Colorado <br />water users in and to water stored in Green Motmtain Reservoir, <br />as described and defined in Senate Document 80, Seventy-fifth <br />Congress, First Se.sion, shall not be impaired or diminished by <br />this project. <br /> <br />15. The project, its operation, maintenance, and use shall <br />be subject to the provisions of the Upper Colorado River Basin <br />Compact of October II, 1948 (Public Law 37, 81st Congress, Firet <br />Session), the Colorado River Compact of November 24, 1922 (House <br />Doc\Jlllent 605, 67th Congress, Fourth Se.sion), and the Boulder Canyon <br />Project Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057-1064). In the <br />event any curtailment of use of Colorado River water in the State <br />of Colorado is necessary to satisry tbe provisions of the Cclorado <br />River Compact or the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, then <br />the diversions by the prcjsct for use in Eastern Colorado shall <br />be curtailed bsfore there is any curtailment of the right to <br />stora water in Aspen Reservcir in a quantity not in excess of the <br />capscity of that reservoir for use in Western Colorado in accord- <br />ance with these operating principles. <br /> <br />32 <br />