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351)(. ( maintain essential government services. Discuss apparent quality oflife issues, Describe appropriate mitigation (revegetation, in-lieu of tax, etc,), c) Alternatives to the traditional change scenario developed as the baseline might included the following: 1. Traditional type change (dry up of irrigated acreage) but the water is transferred to a new use in the valley. The new use might be agricultural, recreation, or industrial, but lands under the Ft. Lyon Canal would be dried up. Discuss whether such an in-basin market reasonably exists and how the impacts of such a transfer are different from an out-of-basin transfer 2. Water Supply Management Increase usable water supply through better efficiency; off farm./ on farm structural improvements and management lead to more consumable water for use by Ft. Lyon shareholders on existing irrigated lands, Would such a program provide an incentive not to sell agricultural water? 3.. Water Salvage /" \ Can water salvage measures under current law be implemented to make a portion of water currently consumed available for sale or lease, 4, Water banking (Pueblo Res/JMR/other) Store for subsequent use, sale, lease, water that is not needed for agricultural use. 5, Agricultural land retirement (marginal agricultural lands) Can the least productive lands be taken out of use and the saved water used on other lands to increase productivity, or be sold/leased to non-agricultural uses; this may include voluntary exchanges between land owners of marginal for productive lands 6, Land fallowing Can some percent of land be taken out of production annually and the saved water sold or leased or used on other lands to increase < 12