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. '. . 'i"J,~ contractingtl> ~tbntial water users. On October 20, 1993, the District notified the Corps that the District agreed with the City of Trinidad, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Colorado Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources that the best use of the excess space was to allocate it to the permanent fishery pool capacity and was changing its request to so allocate the excess storage space. The Corps conducted an environmental assessment to revise the water control manual for allocation of the excess storage space to the permanent fishery pool capacity.. The Corps published the Final Environmental Assessment for Revision of the Water Control Manual to Allocate Excess Storage in Trinidad Lake. Las Animas County. Colorado in September 1994. Subsequently, Reclamation and the Corps replaced the 1990 Memorandum of Agreement that made the excess storage space available to Reclamation with a new Memorandum of Agreement dated April 26, 1995 to depict the allocation of the excess storage space to the permanent fishery pool capacity. Since both the Corps and Reclamation had determined that the amendment of the operating principles was required before the enlarged permanent fishery pool capacity could be filled with water, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources requested an immediate amendment to the operating principles in June of 1995 and proposed a plan to fill the storage space without interference with the District water supply and depleting useable flows to downstream water users in Colorado and Kansas. 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 permanent fishery pool capacity and filling the storage space without interference with the District water 13