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IN REPLY REFER TO, 1 G~!lited States Department of the Interior BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Eastern Colorado Area Office 11056 West County RD 18E Loveland, Colorado 80537-9711 ~dA~T~e"TOFt/f!!lIrlt: /'~~~"".1 ~............. / "<Hl!AUO""eCl..........''''... EC-100 Jim 1" 1~S7 RECEIVED JUN 111997 " Colorado Water Conservation Board ~ Mr. Eugene Aiello, President Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District 314 West Main Street Trinidad co 81082 Subject: Amended Operating Principles - Trinidad Dam and Reservoir Project, Colorado Dear Mr. Aiello: . The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) completed the ten year review of the Operating Principles and Project Operations for the subject Project and published the final report in December 1996. Reclamation prepared draft amended Operating Principles adopting the recommendations of the final report and circulated the draft Operating Principles to interested parties for review and comment by letter dated December 24, 1996. Reclamation received comments from the Army Corps of Engineers, Colorado; Kansas, Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District; the City of Trinidad; and the Model Land and Irrigation Company. Reclamation subsequently had meetings with Kansas, Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District and the Model Land and Irrigation Company to discuss their respective comments. . After considering all comments and subsequent to the meetings referenced above, Reclamation prepared the enclosed proposed final Operating Principles for the Trinidad Dam and Reservoir Project. The proposed final Operating Principles have minor editorial and clarification language changes and one major change which is deletion of objectives (d) and (e) of House Document No. 325, 84th Congress, 2nd Session from the draft amended Operating Principles enclosed in our letter of December 24, 1996. Kansas commented that to allow implementation of conditions (d) and (e) is premature and that more specific proposals must be developed to demonstrate no injury to downstream Kansas and Colorado water users. Reclamation believes that conditions (d) and (e) themselves require development of specific plans prior to implementation, however, Kansas did not believe it would have an opportunity to evaluate those plans when they were developed. Therefore, Reclamation has deleted conditions (d) and (e) from these amended Operating Principles; however, specific plans for implementation of conditions (d) and (e) may be developed at any time, in accordance with Article VI of the Operating Principles, the Operating Principles may be reviewed and amended not more than once a year at the request of any of the signatory parties.