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<br />'-~.' Commission. The Engineer Advisers asked Reclamation to include with that documentation
<br />Reclamation's written recommendation and request to implement the URGWOM accounting
<br />model to perfonn functions now perfonned by Reclamation's daily programs for reservoir
<br />accounting starting with the year 200 J accounting and specific provisions for prospective
<br />contemporaneous availability of the accounting model and data for review and use by the
<br />Engineer Advisers. The Engineer Advisers anticipate receiving and reviewing this
<br />infonnation prior to the 2001 Commission meeting and providing a recommendation to the
<br />Commission at the March 22, 200 I meeting regarding the Commission's approval of the
<br />URGWOM accounting model.
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<br />YEAR 2000 OPERATIONS
<br />Suoolemental Water Use
<br />At the meeting ofthe Engineer Advisers, Reclamation staff presented a summary ofa
<br />presentation handout entitled "Summary of Rio Grande Water Operations for the Calendar
<br />Year 2000." This presentation and handout, which was specifically requested by the Engineer
<br />Advisers at their January J 9, 200 I meeting with Reclamation, provides substantial detail
<br />regarding Reclamation's acquisition and use of supplemental water in 2000 for the purpose of
<br />creating river flow for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow throughout the Middle Rio
<br />Grande. The handout states that total San Juan-Chama Project water used in 2000 for the
<br />supplemental water program was 159,922 acre-feet. Of this amount, approximately 95,000
<br />acre-feet was acquired early in 2000 and was stored in Heron, EI Vado, and Abiquiu
<br />Reservoirs. Reclamation representatives reported to the Engineer Advisers that at the
<br />beginning of2000 they were actively seeking reservoir storage space for supplemental water
<br />they acquired in 1999 but did not use due to the wet conditions at the end of 1999. The
<br />remainder of the 159,922 acre-feet of supplemental water became available via the Agreed
<br />Order and Supplemental Agreed Order that resulted from mediation in the Endangered
<br />Species Act (ESA) lawsuit Minnow, v. Martinez (discussed below). San Juan-Chama Project
<br />water from the supplemental water program was exchanged for native Rio Grande water under
<br />an infonnal arrangement between Reclamation and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy
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