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VI. AUGMENTATION PLAN - STATUS <br />As a result ofi a ruling in Division 1 Water Court in 1984 affecting <br />• specific shareholders of the Ground-water Appropriators of the <br />South Platte River Basin (GASP), Coors Energy Company has submitted <br />an alternate plan of augmentation for the Keenesburg Mine operation <br />in Weld County, Colorado. <br />The plan identified structures to be augmented, existing water <br />rights (non-tributary appropriations) at the mine location, water <br />management plans, and water uses related to the operation and <br />reclamation plan at the Keenesburg Mine. <br />This augmentation plan also outlines proposed metering procedures <br />and determinations of consumptive use of the tributary water. <br />The original augmentation program that was administered by GASP can <br />be made to meet water replacement requirements at the Keenesburg <br />operation. However, an alternate plan was presented which closely <br />monitors actual water uses and augments them et the source of use. <br />Surface water losses by evaporation during transportation and <br />reservoir storage as they were related to the former GASP plan can <br />be eliminated. <br />Coors Energy Company submitted this plan to Division I Water Court <br />in February of 1985. When a draft decree is issued by the Division <br />I Water Court referee, and, upon Coors Energy Company's review and <br />• approval, the decree would then be subject to a 20-day public <br />protest period, after which the decree would be signed by the judge <br />if no protest was filed. <br />• <br />Page 9 <br />