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<br />j <br /> <br />~', <br /> <br />3338 <br />FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT, COLORADO <br /> <br />37 <br /> <br />15. Attention is directe,d to a statement in the middle of page 38, <br />,.euding: <br />Such contracts sl10llld include provisions for the right of renewal t.11Preo( once <br /><lr more t.han Ollce limier ",tat cd term~ and C(wditions Illut.ually agreeable to the <br />parties and subject. to incrf'a:;e or decrease ill rates corre~poIJdillg to increase or <br />decrease of cost of (,oll~t.ructioll a.nrl of uperation, mailltellfl.llce, or impro\.cl1lcnt <br />oQr deteriorat.ion in the payment ability of t!J~ water lIsers. <br />This sentence must be reconciled wit,h t.he existing Colorado law <br />whieh is set forth in chllpter 266 of the Session Lllws of Colorndo 10:;7, <br />being sect.ion 19 thereof, which requires t,he petit.ion for ullocat.ion of <br />water filed by t.he water user and addressed to the conservnncy <br />dist.rict to contuin therein tile charge to be imposed for each acre-foot, <br />of water. The st.nlute requires the pet.ition t.o cOIltnin trhe fullowing: <br />(I) Nllme of Ilpplicllnt., (2) qUBnt.it.y of wuter to he purchnseu 0'. <br />otherwise ncqllired, (:3) descript.ions of lnnds upon which the water will <br />be nsed find uttllched, (4) price per acre-foot, to he pnid, (.5) wheth~r <br />payments will be made in cash or llnnual installments, (6) agreement <br />t.hat f,he annual instnllmenls find the d.1llI'ges for maintenance and <br />operating shull become n tax lien upon the lallds for which such water <br />is petitioned nnd nil oiled and to be hound hy the provisions of t.his <br />act und t.l1c rules and regulations of t.he board. 'Yhile it was contem- <br />pluted initilllly UlIlt the price per acre-foot woul,l be fixed, such fiS, in <br />the easp. of the Colorndo-Big Thompson project, $1.50 per acre-foot.. <br />it is heliC\'ed t.llllt this statntory provision can he eomplied wit.h by <br />stating the priee per acre-foot shull be not less thnn $~ nor more <br />than $~. <br />Respectfully submitted. <br /> <br />DAN THORNTON, <br />Governor, State oj Colorado, and Ex-Officio Chairman oj the <br />Colorado ~'Vater Conservation Board. <br />CLIFFORD H. STONE, <br />Director, Colorado lJ7atcr Conservation Board. <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />" <br />