WSP07663

• File Number: 8141.700
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Annual Operating Plans and Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1979
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Annual Operating Plan Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Colorado 1979 - 1980
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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OPERATING PRINCIPLES, FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT

ADOP~D BY THE STATE OF COLORADO, APRIL 30, 1959

(As Amended December 30, 1959, and Decernber 9, 1960)

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The construction and operation of the project involve the diver-
sion of water from the headwaters of the Fryinp.pan River and other
tribl.itllries of the Roaring Fork River to the Arkansas River Basin.
The prOject contemplates-~
(a) The maximum conservation and use of water,
(b) The protection of western Colorado water uses, both
existing and potential, in accordance with the declared policy of
the Stllte' of COlorado, and
(c) The preservation of recrelltionlll values.
In order to accomplish such purposes, the project shall be
operated by the United States in compliance with the Federal
reclamation laws, the laws of the State of Colorado relatinr. to .
the appropriation, use, or distribution of water, and the fOllowinp.
operating principles:
1. As used herein:
(a). "Project" means that ceJ'tain enterprise planned and
designed by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the
Interior, for the transmoWltain diversion of water from
the headwaters of the Fryingpan River and other tribu-
taries of the Roaring Fork River to the basin of the
Arkansas River, together with all of its appurtenant
wo%,ks and facilities in both eastern and western Colorado.
(b) "Eastern Coloraclo" means that portion of the State of
Colorado lyin~ within the natural drainage basin of the
Arkansas River.
(c) "We~tern Colorado" means that portion of the State of
Colorado lyin~.within the natural draina~e basin of the
Colorado River and served by diversions made from the
Colorado River, or itstributarilils, above its confluence
with theGUlJnison River. .
(d) "Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District"
. means that entity created to contract for paiment to the
Uni ted States of an appropriate portion of projlilct cost
allocated to certain water uses in eastern Colorado.
(e) "Colorado River Water Conservation District" )Team;
that entity created by Colorado Revised Statutes. 1953,
lll~-ll, as amended..' . .
(f) "Southwestern Water Conservation District" means that
entity crellted by Colorado Revised Statutes 1953, 1119-9,
as amended.

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