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r ~ ..- 4~...I:J OPERATING PRINCIPLES, FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT 7. The primary purpose of Ruedi Reservoir, and any reservoir con- structed in addition thereto, is to furnish, to the extent of its capacity, in like manner as if the project were constructed by a water conservancy district organized pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado, the water required for the protection of western Colorado water users by the provisions of Colorado Revised Statutes 1953, 149-6-13, reading as follows: . However, any works or facilities planned and designed for the exportation of water from the natural basin of the Colorado River and its tributaries in Colorado, by any district created under this article, shall be subject to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act. Any such works or facilities shall be designed, constructed and operated in such a manner that the present appropriations of water, and in addition thereto prospective uses of water for irrigation and other beneficial consumptive use purposes, including consumptive uses for domestic, mining, and industrial purposes, within the natural basin of the Colorado River in the State. of Colorado, from which water is exported, will not be impaired nor increased in cost at the expense of the water users within the natural basin. The facilities and other means for the accomplishment of said purpose shall be incorporated in, and made a part of any project plans for the exportation of water from said natural basin in Colorado. 8. Project diversions from Lime Creek shall be made only in the months of May and June of each year, unless the Colorado River Water Conservation District shall, by written communication, advise the Colorado State engineer that additional diversions can be made. 9. The respective decrees which may be or have been awarded to the parties hereto as a part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project and Basalt project shall be administered by the proper officials of the State of Colorado in accordance with. the applicable laws of the State of Colorado, and with the following principles and procedures, to wit: (1) Tha.t th~ dciJ'XWi.d. on the ...-n.tcrc av~ilable '..l~d.e::' 2'..l~h dec!'ees shall be allocated in the following sequence: (a) For diversion to the Arkansas Valley through the collection system and the facilities of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project in an amount not exceeding an aggregate of 120,000 acre-feet of water in any year, but not to exceed a total aggregate of 2,352,800 acre-feet in any period of 34 consecu- tive years reckoned in continuing progressive series starting with the first full year of diversions, both limitations here- in being exclusive of Roaring Fork exchanges as provided in (c) below, and exclusive of diversions for the Busk-Ivanboe decree; and with the further and absolute limitation that in order to protect existing and future beneficial uses of water in western Colorado, including recreational and fishing values, the State pngineer shall so regulate the transmountain diver- sions above referred to, to the end that no diversions shall be made which will reduce the remaining aggregate streamflows to less than either of the following minimum standards: . .