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1849 The Board should rent water to bidders based on these rules: i. Rent water to the highest price bidde~s. ii. Do not rent water below cost in the March 5 bid opening. I iii. Allow renters from the prior year to h~ve a first right of refusal at the high bid price. c. Enforcement of Lessor's Contracts - The FLCC shareholders who lease water to the water bank must be effectively policed to assure that they are not continuing to use the water they have leased to the bank. The lease agreement should: i i. Require a definite identification of thb field to be dried up. ii. Require assurance that the field to bel fallowed was irrigated in the year before it is leased to the water bank for the first time. iii. Require that a water bank employee, visit each field fallowed during the growing season. iv. Authorize the FLCC superintendent to assure that lateral headgates have been identified and adjusted as necessary. j v. Assure that no credit is taken in relia~ce of Fry-Ark Project water historically used on the field, and provide sufficient inf?rmation to the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, through the FLCC, so that the Reclamation Reform Act Compliance Plan of the FLCC continues to work smoothly. Assurance of Return Flows - Other water rights users depend on the continuation of the historic return flows from water historically ~pplied to fields from which water is leased to the water bank. See the Return Flow Ana~is above. I j Water Storage and Exchanges - In order to ~ay return flows and place water in storage for delivery to renters, the water bank will nee~ to operate and to account for storage and exchanges. The water storage and exchanges will need tp be conducted in accord with these rules: i Exchanges must not cause injury to qther water rights. Water stored must pay its share of eraporation. Water delivered must pay proper tra~it losses in the streams, ditches and wasteways. The water bank must not cause wate( belonging to FLCC shareholders to be lost or diminished. The water bank must pay operatin~ costs incurred by the FLCC as a result of accommodating the water bank. i The water bank must pay financial s~orage charges in Pueblo Reservoir. The water bank must assure that futpre years' return flow obligations can be paid. This is arranged in part through stor~ge of wet water, and in part through a financial reserve which could be used to purchase water to pay return flow obligations if the water bank did not have water to meet those obligations in its own accounts. d. e. i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. I i 7-44