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. {.' #,>A': <1 J,.,;,......;. Company in exchange for equivalent releases from the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River which would otherwise be diverted througll such Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company collection and diversion system. (d) For any other beneficial use in western Colorado in accordance with court decree, but not herein contemplated. (2) The effectuation of the above principle$ requires con- current Fryingpan-Arkansas Project diversion and Ruedi Reservoir storage to be accomplished in the manner following: The State Engineer annually . shall collect pertinent data, including information PElrtaining to snow pack and all other available evidence, and shall thereafter so divide and apportion the surface run-off as to achieve, as nearly as pOSSible, the foregoing division of water and the maximum of concurrent diver- sions and storage. The diversions herein contemplated shall be on the basis of a water year hereby defined as that interim of October 1 to the following September 30. . 10. For the protection of recreational values, including fishing, on the Fryingpan River below Ruedi Reservoir, releases Of water from said reservoir, not to exceed the stream inflow, shall l;le made so that the stream flow immediately below the junction of the Fryingpan River and Rocky Fork shall not be reduced below 39 c.f.s. from November 1 to April 30, and 1lO c.f.s. from May 1 to October 30, or as actual experience or court decree shall hereafter dictate. 10 l1. An appropriate written contract may be made whereby Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company shall refrain from diverting water whenever the natural flow of the Roaring Fork River and :its tribu- taries shall be only sufficient to maintain a flow equal' to or less than that required to maintain the recommended average flows in the Roaring Fork River immediately above its confluence with Difficult Creek in a quantity proportiona.te to the respective natural flow of the Roaring Fork River. The recommended a.verage flows above mentioned are flows in quantities equal to those recommended as a minimum immediately above its confluence with Difficult Creek according to the following schedule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Colorado Game and Fish Commission: .