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UV""'''*' 4. No petition will be approved unless the petitioner agrees to pay, and pays, the amount of taxes that would have been levied against his property i! il had been in the District from its inception in ]964 and the costs o! puhlication required by statute. 5. Every petitioner should understand the following: a. The District, through its Board, has the right to accept or reject a petition. h. Any petitioner must know and understand 'lhe Dist- rict, thrQugh its Board, has !ull power to allocate water from the Narrows Project and accel'lance o! a petition to join the District in no way assures the p~titioner water will be allocated to him. It is probahle a policy for allOCJltion of water will not he completed for a number of months. Of course, the District will make every effort to be fair in its allocation of water from the project and every potential user of water will be given a full opportunity to comment on and object to \he proposed allocation policy belore it is finally adopted. c. However, allocation of water from the Narrows Project is very complicated and belore a policy lor alloca- tion can be finally settled on, many decisions must be made. These include: I. Negotalion 01 a repayment contract with the Unl. ted States. 2. Negol8Jlion of contracts with water Users who will purchase water. 3. A determination of whether all water will be allo- cated before the project is completed or some water will not be allocated and will be available for distri- bution on a year to year basis. d. The use of Narrows water will be subject to the terms o! the repayment contract wilh the United States Gov. ernment, .the operating rules adoped by the Bureau of Recla. mation and similar rules, regulations and applicable federal laws, e. No peti.tion will be accepted with conditions attach- ed and each petitioner must understand that, as part of the District, he will be bound by the Tules and regula'tions, de- cisions and policies set from time to .time by the District in accordance with Colorado law. These will include: I. Every landowner allocated wa,ter by the District under contract will be obligated to pay the amounts in the contract each year and such amounts will constitute a lien against his property. 6 ,. .,'-. " '. ~ ',', . 'N. '-.;. .~: . ".;.,,-,:,{. 1 2. Any landowner not using project water for sup- plemental irrigation may he suhject to the Reclamation law's excess land provisions, 3. Any user of Narrows Project water for municipal or industrial purposes may be reqUired to pay more than an irrigation user of the same amount of water because of pro. visions of Reclamaotion laws under which the Narrows Pro. ject is being constructed. 4. Any allocation of water will be subject to sharing shortages. 5. No transfer o! an allocation made to a land owner can be made without permission of the District's Board. 6. Provisions will be made in all contracts to pro- hibit speculation in Narrows Project water. For purposes of defining the terms and circum. stances under which lands will be included, the following categories of land have heen established: a. The first category includes all lands which can be served by exchange or directly from the Narrows Reservpir. This includes land where pumpers want water by exchange and have a gTound water supply and lands that fall under existing ditches, or diotches that could 'be quickly and in~x- pensively extended. Persons who are included under this category will understand that inclusion in !he District does not guarantee an allocation of water and that, as a result, they will be given an opportunity to withdraw. This oppor- tunity to withdraw would be under two circumstances: 1. A person under ,this category included within the District can withdrawal any time the District in. fonns that person that he can not be served with water or water will not be allocated to him. 2. Such a person can witbdraw as a matter of righl within five years after water is first delivered from the Narrows Reservoir, if no water is delivered to or made available by contract to this iljdividuaI. b. The second category includes all lands that can be served only with the construction 01 reasonably feasible de. livery facilities. This include'S such areas as the Beaver Creek valley south of Brush. To be so categorized does not preclude persons within an area such as the Beaver Creek valley from coming into the District and making available to the District their tax funds or other funds for the purpose of studying the feaSibility of delivery of water. Any person in this category has the same right of wi,lhdrawal contained under the first category (a) ahove. c. The third category includes all lands located so re- motely from the contemplated service area of Narrows Reser. voir that they could not be reasonably served. :1 7 I , I '..1