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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />:;l.::Lb <br /> <br /> <br />HILL & ROBBINS. P. O. <br /> <br />DAVID W; ROBBINS <br />ROBERT F. :a:rr..L <br />DENNIS M. MO:NWOMERY <br />RONALD L. wn:..oOX <br />JOHN H. EVANS <br />MARX .T. WAGNJDR <br />JOHN Jr, WALSH <br />JlllNNIll'ER H. HUNT <br />LAURA. J. DONSON <br /> <br />ATTORNEYS AT LAW <br />100 BL.AKEl STREET BUlLDING <br />144.l EIGHTEENTH STREET <br />DEN'VE& OOLORADO 80202.1256 <br /> <br />FACSWILE <br />803296.2388 <br /> <br />TELEPHO:NE <br />308296.8100 <br /> <br />E'MAIL <br />webmaster@h1Uandrobhitls.COtXl <br /> <br />WIDBSITE <br />www.hillandrobbins.com <br /> <br />July 18, 2001 <br /> <br />Rod Kuharich _ _, _ , <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />1313 Shennan Street <br />Room 721 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />Re: Rio Grande Outstanding Natural Area Legislation <br /> <br />Dear Rod: <br /> <br />Enclosed is a short resolution that you could consider for presentation to the Water <br />Conservation Board concerning the proposed Outstanding Natural Area along the Rio Grande <br />below Alamosa. By copy of this letter, I am sending it along Lewis Entz as well. <br /> <br />In brief summary, the following points support the Rio Grande Water Conservation <br />District's initiative to see the Outstanding Natural Area established: <br /> <br />1. The Rio Grande below the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge was determined to <br />be suitable for wild and scenic designation by the Bureau of Land Management in its most recent <br />Resource Management Plan, A Wild and Scenic River designation carries with it an express <br />reserved water right and a duty to protect and enhance river flows. With that step having been <br />taken, any member of Congress would be free to introduce legislation to create a wild and scenic <br />river in this reach, which Colorado and the citizens in the San Luis Valley would have to <br />strenuously resist. <br /> <br />2, This reach of river is approximately 33 miles long and over two-thirds (2/3) of the <br />property along the river is private. <br /> <br />3. Under the wild and scenic river approach, the Federal Government would be <br />entitled to condemn private property until the Federal Government controlled fifty percent (50%) <br />of the land, <br />