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<br /> <br />The Colorado Springs/Super Ditch Pilot Project (“Pilot Project”) proposes to use water available from certain shares in the Catlin Canal Company (“Subject Shares”) for municipal use <br /> by CS-U 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 of this Joint Conference Report was circulated to all Conference Participants, along with representatives from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, <br /> 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 Conference <br /> 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. A plan year for the Pilot Project extends from March 15 through March 14 of the following year. <br />No lands shall be fallowed for more than three years during the ten-year period of the Pilot Project. <br />All submittals by Applicants to the Division of Water Resources pursuant to these Terms and Conditions shall be posted to the Division of Water Resources website, ftp site or other publically <br /> available media within a reasonable time, not to exceed ten days, after submittal and shall remain publically available until all lagged return flow obligations from the Pilot Project <br /> have been replaced. The Division of Water Resources shall establish a notification list which provides notice to subscribers when documents have posted. <br />By March 1 of each plan year for the Pilot Project, Super Ditch shall notify and provide mapping to the Division Engineer and all commenting parties of those parcels to be fallowed and <br /> the associated shares for the upcoming plan year. Lands and shares available and approved for fallow through operation of the