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Show SPECIAL STATUTORY ADJUDICATION PROCEDURES 483 The act also provides for various changes of water rights234 and for a "plan for augmentation," which means "a detailed program to increase the supply of water available for beneficial use in a division or portion thereof by the development of new or alternate means or points of diversion, by a pooling of water resources, by water exchange projects, by providing substitute supplies of water, by the development of new sources of water or by any other appropriate means."23S Procedures are provided for filing and acting upon applications for such changes or plans for augmentation.236 Such applications shall be approved "if such change or plan will not injuriously affect the owner of or persons entitled to use water under a vested water right or a decreed conditional water right."237 The foregoing judicial proceedings have been augmented by statutory proceedings in which the division engineer in each division, with the approval of the State Engineer, provides the water clerk in his division with a tabulation of all decreed water rights and conditional water rights in the division, in order of seniority.238 The tabulations of decreed water rights, to be made in 1970,239 shall set forth the decreed priority and amount of each decreed right. The act further provided:240 In making such tabulation, the division engineer may use such system or systems of numbering and listing water rights and conditional water rights in order of seniority as is suited to the 234Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 148-21-3(11) (Supp. 1969). 2isId. § 148-21-3(12). 2:'6See, inter alia, id. § § 148-21-17 to 148-21-21 and 148-21-23. 237/d. § 148-21-21(3). If it would cause such an injurious effect, the applicant or anyone in opposition to the application shall be allowed (by the referee or water judge, as the case may be) to propose terms or conditions which would prevent such injurious effect, including certain specified types of terms or conditions. Id. § § 148-21-21(3) and (4). Any decision of a water judge dealing with a change of water right or plan for augmentation may include, inter alia, the condition that its approval shall be subject to reconsideration on the question of injury to vested rights of others during any hearing commencing in the 2 calendar years succeeding the year in which such decision is rendered. Id. § 148-21-20(6). »8/d. § § 148-21-27(l)(a) and (4), 148-21-28(1) and (2)(d). See the discussion at note 211 supra regarding prior legislation pertaining to tabulation of water rights. This 1969 act contains more detailed provisions in this regard. Among other differences, the tabulations under the 1969 act are to be filed with the water clerk, as noted above; tabulations to be completed in 1974 and thereafter are, to be approved by the water judge (with or without modifications) and such tabulation proceedings are termed "general adjudication proceedings," as discussed below. 139 Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 148-21-27(l)(a) (Supp. 1969). As amended in 1971, the time for completing revisions in such tabulations and filing them with the water clerk was extended from October 10,1970, to October 10, 1973. Colo. Laws 1971, ch. 375, § 1, amending § 148-21-27(4). 240Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 148-21-27(1) (Supp. 1969). |