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1557 improving resource values within the existing legal, institutional, and management &amewotk. Artangements have been negotiated in the past to enhance certain water-dependent resource values (i.e., fisheries and float-boating activities on the Arkansas Rivet). Negotiated agreements for teser- voir releases. special-use permit stipulations. river exchanges, reservoir release: subsritucions. or poine of diversion transfers are some of the options that may be available to preserve and enhance the vari- ous key resource values. The following are existing agreements and man- agement plans affecting the river and adjacent resources. Fryingpan-Arkansas Project: The Bureau of Reclamation's Fryingpan-Arkansas Project was authorized bv Congress" ...for the purposes of supplying water for irrigation, municipal, domes- tic, and industrial uses, generating and transmit- ting hvdroelectric power and energy, and control- ling floods. and for othet useful and beneficial purposes incidental thereto. including recreation and the conservation and development of fish and wildlife." (Acr of August 16, 1962, P.L 87,590, 76 Stat.389). Users of Project Watet are located in the Southeastern Colotado Watet Conservancy District. Project reservoirs located in the Arkansas River Basin are Turquoise Lake and Twin Lakes near Leadville and Pueblo Reservoit near Pueblo. Recreation facilities and activities at me former twO reservoirs are administered by the U.S. Forest Service and at the latter reservoit by the Colotado Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation. Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area: Under a cooperative management agreement, the Bureau of Land Management and Colorado Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation have implemented the Arkansas Rivet Recreation Management Plan. This plan recognizes the interrelationship of reCte- ation (e.g.. boating, fishing) with the fisheries, aquacic habitats and aquatic ecosystems, riparian vegetation, and water quality of the Arkansas River. The agencies direct specific actions to maintain the quality of these resourceS and the opportunities they present. The Plan ditects recre- acion management on the river corridor from Leadville to Pueblo Reservoir, and it ditects coor- dination with the river corridot communities, local governments, land owners and watet users. Pike and San Isabel National Forest Plan: This U.S. Forest Service land-use plan provides general direction for watet resoutces. including manageo ment adjacent to Twin Lakes and TUtquoise Reservoirs. Specific management goals are to pro- vide healthy, sdf-petpemating plant communities, meet water quality standards, provide habitatS for viable populations for wildlife and fish, and pro- vide stable stream channels and still water-body shorelines. An earlier agteement with the U.S. Bureau for Reclamation srates that effortS will be made w maintain specified minimum pool eleva- tions for Turquoise R.:servoir, however, project needs could dictate furthet lowering (1976 Memorandum of Understanding). This agteement also states that ,he Forest Service is responsible for adminiscration :md managemenc of all recreation activities associaced with rhe warer surface of Turquoise Reservoir. Lake Pueblo State Park Management Plan: This Plan governs the management of the 4.646 sur- face acre reservoit and irs adjacent lands by the Colorado Division of Parks and Ourdoot Recreation. The Reservoir is part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, operated by ,he Buteau of Reclamation. Goals of the State Park Management Plan are co maintain: safe Water- based recreation activities, a variecy of compli- mentary land based recreation facilities, the quali- ty of the reservoir fishery, and the viability of reservoir based concessionaires. Management is by agteement with the Bureau of Reclamation. Division ofWudlife Management Guidelines for Uppet Arkansas River Basin: Under these guide- lines, the Division of Wildlife has set manage- ment objectives for the uppet Arkansas River, uppet Fryingpan-Arkansas Reservoirs, and Pueblo Reservoir. Management direction for rhe river corridor is to optimize the production of self- reptoducing brown [(our populations and encour- age the development of self, reproducing rainbow troUt fisheties. Within the basin the Division will maintain healthy populations of bighorn sheep, 3