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Colorado Springs/Super Ditch Pilot Project ' State Engineer's Determination December 6'2O1V Page 4of15 'The water will be diverted by the Catlin Canal and, minus ditch and lateral losses, returned to the Arkansas River via one or more augmentation stations. The deliveries to the Arkansas River will include replacement of tailwater return flows and tagged deep percolation return flows requiring replacement that day. The remaining deliveries will be exchanged to Pueblo Reservoir if exchange potential is available, or stored and exchanged later, if and when exchange potential is available. III. Terms and Conditions to Prevent Injury and Compact Impairment The following terms and conditions are recommended for adoption by the [WCB if this project is approved. First, the terms and conditions agreed upon bvall mfthe participants are listed, followed by terms and conditions that were not agreed upon by all parties. Although DYYR maintained the numbering of the terms and conditions submitted in the Joint Conference Report, changes were made to the language of many of the ''agreed -upon" terms and conditions based on the judgement of the State Engineer and Division Engineer. III.A: Terms and conditions agreed upon by partie L All water attributable to shares in the Pilot Project will first be delivered to the headgate of the Catlin Canal, and only lands irrigated under the Catlin Canal Company will be used in the ieasing-faikxwingoperetionsofthe Pilot Project. A plan year for the Pilot Project extends from March 15through March 14ufthe following year ('^PianYear''). Project duration isfrom March 15'2U2Othrough March 14,2U30. 2. The Pilot Project will faiimvv lands in no more than three of the ten years of approval ("Fallowing Years"). 1 Distribution and Posting: All submittals by Applicants to DYYR pursuant to these Terms and Conditions shall be emaibedto augmentaton.coordinator@sLate.co.ua (unless another email is provided) and made publicly available by DYYRonthe pilot_2ro*ect web age(and viaged Documents, Division Filing template, Plan VYD|D |D No. 1707701) after submittal and shall remain publicly available until all tagged return fLmvv obligations from the Pilot Project have been replaced. The Applicants shall notify parties tothe Application when documents have been submitted to DVYR. A copy ofthe annual report required under condition no. 44shall also be submitted to CVYCB and shared on the [YYCBvvebsite, 4. Fa||ovwed Lands: By March 1 of each Fallowing Year, Applicants shalt provide mapping ofthose parcels to be faiiovved and the associated shares and provide notice in accordance with condition of approval no. 3. Lands and shares available and approved for fallow through operation of the Pilot Project are limited to those identified in the Pilot Project application and as approved by the State. 5. Review of the application and discussion at the conference resulted in several agreed upon changes to the historical consumptive use (HCU) analysis including the following: The Applicants have agreed to modify the consumptive use analysis to reflect a 38-year study period that does not include years when the parcels were dried upfor augmentation credits in well association Rule 14 plans. All volumetric limits will be based on the revised study periods. In addition, the Applicants have agreed to use the 1985 acreage agreed to by Colorado and Kansas, 6� Composite consumptive use calculations: The following monthly factors, based on the November 27 revised HCU, will be used to calculate monthly composite consumptive use factors, which will be applied to augmentation station deliveries to determine monthly consumptive use. The monthly composite consumptive use factors will be calculated as the sum of monthly consumptive use for each farm multiplied by the taLiowed shares for each farm'