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14GJ . Storage in Trinidad Lake. Las Animas County. Colorado in September 1994. Subsequently, Reclamation and the Corps terminated the 1990 Memorandum of Agreement that made the excess storage space available to Reclamation and replaced it with .~~~~ Memorandum of Agreement dated April 26, 1995 to depict the allocation of the excess storage space to the fishery or recreation pooL Since both the Corps and Reclamation had determined that the amendment ofthe operating principles was required before the enlarged recreation pool could be filled with water, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources requested an immediate amendment to the operating principles and proposed a plan to fill the storage space without interference with the Project water supply and depleting useable flows to dowpstream water users in Colorado and Kansas in June of 1995. At the November 1995 10 year review scoping meeting, all the parties . agreed the operating principles could possibly be amended before the 10-year-review was completed to permit allocation of the excess storage space to the recreation pool and filling the storage space without interference with the Project water supply and without depleting useable water to downstream users in Colorado and Kansas. The Colorado Water Conservation Board prepared and coordinated the review and approvals of)he amendment to the operating principles. The amendment was completed with Kansas' approval on May 30, 1996. The amendment increases the fishery and recreation pool from 4500 acre feet to 15967 acre feet and the total allocated capacity of Trinidad Reservoir to 125967 acre feet. The State of Colorado is to acquire water for the initial filling and replacing evaporation and seepage losses of the fishery or recreation pool without interference to the District's water supply and usable Stateline flows and without additional cost to the District and the United States for the Trinidad . 13 I