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<br /> <br />The Colorado Springs/Super Ditch Pilot Project proposes to use water available from certain shares in the Catlin Canal Company (“Subject Shares”) for municipal use by Colorado Springs <br /> Utilities in three out of ten years. The pilot project will operate over the ten-year period from March 15, 2020 through March 14, 2030. <br />On November 13, 2019, a draft clean copy of this Joint Conference Report was circulated to all Conference Participants, along with representatives from Tri-State Generation and Transmission <br /> Association, Inc., which provided comments on the initial pilot project proposal but did not submit comments on the application or attend the conference. The final version of the Joint <br /> Conference Report was circulated to all parties on November 20, 2019, which incorporated all comments provided to Applicants as of that time. <br />The Criteria and Guidelines provide that “within fifteen days of the conference, the pilot project applicants and owners of water rights or contract rights to water shall file a joint <br /> report with the CWCB and the State Engineer outlining any agreed-upon terms and conditions for the proposed pilot project, and explaining the reasons for failing to agree on any terms <br /> and conditions for the pilot project if the applicant and the owners fail to reach a full agreement at the conference.” <br />Agreed-Upon Terms and Conditions <br />The participating parties agreed upon the following terms and conditions for the proposed pilot project: <br />All water used in the Pilot Project will be first delivered to the headgate of the Catlin Canal, and only lands irrigated under the Catlin Canal Company will be used in the leasing-fallowing <br /> operations of the Pilot Project. <br />No lands shall be fallowed for more than three years during the ten-year period of the Colorado Springs/Super Ditch Pilot Project. <br />By March 1 of each plan year for an approved pilot project, the pilot project sponsor shall notify and provide mapping to the Division Engineer of those parcels to be fallowed and the <br /> associated shares for the upcoming plan year. Lands and shares available and approved for fallow through operation of an approved pilot project are limited to those identified in the <br /> pilot project application and as approved by the State. <br />The following monthly factors will be used to calculate monthly composite consumptive use factors, which will be applied to augmentation station deliveries to determine monthly consumptive <br /> use. The monthly composite consumptive use factors will be calculated as the sum of monthly consumptive use for each farm multiplied by the fallowed shares for each farm, divided by <br /> the total number of fallowed shares. The calculation of monthly composite consumptive use factors will be performed for each month from March through November.