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• 95CW96 <br />CHEVRON USA RULING/DSCREE <br />Page 2 <br />4. The source of the water is: <br />unnamed ephemeral drainage ways and diversion ditches within <br />the Trout Creek drainage. <br />5. The date of appropriation is: <br />April 30, 1991. <br />6. The appropriation was initiated by: <br />commencement of construction of impoundment. <br />7. The water was applied to beneficial use on: <br />May 31, 1991. <br />8. The amount of water awarded is: <br />14.74 acre feet, absolute. <br />• 9. The use of water is: <br />livestock and wildlife watering and uses related to the <br />production of coal and reclamation of surface lands. <br />10. water shall not be impounded, except pursuant to the operation <br />of a lawful exchange, unless entitled to do so by virtue of the <br />priority herein awarded. At all other times, all inflow of water <br />into the reservoir from any source, including precipitation, shall <br />be removed by the applicant or the applicant's successors in <br />interest by draining, pumping or other means, and released into the <br />nearest nataral watercourse or below the reservoir, and not <br />utilized by the applicant in any manner. Applicant shall install <br />and maintain such meters, measuring devices or other structures as <br />may be required by the Division Engineer of Water Division 6. <br />11. The water right herein awarded is awarded absolutely and <br />unconditionally; subject, however, to all earlier priority rights <br />of others and to the integration and tabulation by the Division <br />Engineer of such priorities and changes in accordance with law. <br />It is accordingly Ordered that this Ruling shall be filed with <br />the water Clerk subject to Judicial review. <br />• <br />