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ADMINISTRATION PROTOCOL Augmentation Plan Accounting Division One - South Platte River This protocol establishes the accounting and reporting process required to enable the division engineer's office to confirm that depletions from all out -of- priority diversions are being replaced so as to prevent injury to vested water rights. The accounting must comport with established "cradle to grave" accounting standards, which allow an audit of the information to track exactly how the data is manipulated as it is translated from raw input data to the resultant impact on the river. While this protocol is subordinate to any decreed language addressing specific accounting requirements, it generally addresses the minimum requirements of such accounting. The accounting must use the standard convention where a depletion is "negative" and an accretion or other replacement source is "positive ". The sum of the impacts will then result in either a "negative" or "positive" impact on the stream. Wells in plans that have a negative stream impact must provide additional replacement water, curtail pumping or both until the impact is no longer negative. Plans with a negative stream impact that fail to curtail pumping will be ordered to stop pumping until such time as the projected impact of the wells is no longer negative. 1. Accounting must be submitted electronically to the water commissioner (call 970- 352 -8712 to obtain email address) and division engineer at Div1Accounting @state.co.us within 30 days of the end of the month for which the accounting is being submitted. 2. The accounting must provide the contact information including name and address for: a. the owner(s) of each well b. the person responsible for submitting the accounting c. the plan administrator and /or the plan attorney. 3. All input data must be in one location, such as an "Input" worksheet, etc. The accounting must show all pumping. Input data includes the information listed below. a. The required input data for each well is: i. the monthly meter reading for wells that use a presumptive depletion factor (PDF) to determine the associated consumptive use (CU); or ii. the monthly CU in acre -feet (AF) for wells that have a decree or approved SWSP that allows the wells to use a water balance methodology to determine the CU of the well. The analysis used to determine the CU must be included with the accounting. iii. Wells that are decreed as an alternate point of diversion (APOD) to a surface water right must report pumping on a daily basis if any of the diversion during the month is claimed as being "in priority ". (See Administration Protocol — APOD Wells for more details.) Administration Protocol - Augmentation Plan Accounting Revised March 19, 2009