WSP05984

• File Number: 8149.911
• Description: Miscellaneous Small Projects and Project Studies - SE Needs Assessment and PSOP
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 4/19/2001
• Author: PSOP Implementation
• Title: Final PSOP Implementation Committee Report Addendum to Preferred Storage Options Plans Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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end the following sections: "Sec. 8. (a) The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts with

any agency or entity, private or public, supplying water for municipal and other purposes within

the project boundaries, for the use of excess water storage and conveyance capacity for non-

project water in certain east slope facilities, as described in the Preferred Storage Options Plan

Report published September 21, 2000, by the Southeastern Colorado Water and Storage Needs

Assessment Enterprise and Implementation Committee report dated April 19, 2001, after

consultation with the Board of Directors of the Southeastern Colorado Water Activity Enterprise;

Provided, however, that such contracts shall not impair or otherwise interfere with:

(I) the project's authorized purposes,
(2) the ability of the project contractors to meet existing federal repayment obligations,

(3) the storage allocations and limitations pursuant to Contract No. 5-07-70-W0086, as

amended, between the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District and the United States

and the allocation principles adopted by the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District

on November 29, 1979, and confirmed by the District Court of Pueblo County in Civil Action

No. 40487 by decree dated December 18, 1979, including any subsequent modifications made by

the District that are confirmed by the District Court,

(4) the yield of the project from its West Slope and East Slope water rights, or

(5) the capacity in Reclamation project facilities which is needed to satisfy project

purposes and contractual obligations with a term exceeding one year existing at the time of the

execution of a contract under the authority of this subsection.

"(b) The term of any contract executed pursuant to this section shall not exceed the

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