<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">For those who will be unable to attend the meeting next week, I will be posting the entire presentation on the Reclamation website and can e-mail it to anyone who would like to receive it directly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">Mary Carlson</span></p>
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<p class="ReleaseDate"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mary Carlson 505-462-3576 </span><a href="mailto:mperea@uc.usbr.gov"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">mcarlson@usbr.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">April 11, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Advisory</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Reclamation and Army
Corps of Engineers to Release 2013 Annual Operating Plan for Middle Rio
Grande</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
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Who: </span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What: </span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Release of Annual Operating Plan for the Middle Rio Grande</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">When: </span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Where: </span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Albuquerque: Bureau of Reclamation Albuquerque Office, 555
Broadway Boulevard NE, Suite 100, Albuquerque, New Mexico, San Juan Room</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Why: </span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">To learn more about the process used for determining this year’s
operating plan, water forecast, water storage, potential for water storage and
release</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">How: </span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Contact Mary Carlson at (505) 462-3576
with any questions <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Background:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would
like to invite the public to their annual meeting to explain plans for water
operations along the Middle Rio Grande in 2013. There is a below average snowpack
in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico and a low and early runoff is
expected. The presentation will cover the process for determining the plan for
water operations. It will include a review of the 2012 water predictions, what
actually happened, storage and release. The presenters will then explain the 2013
water forecast, potential for storage and release and impacts to water-related
recreation.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
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wholesale water supplier and the second largest producer of hydroelectric power
in the United States, with operations and facilities in the 17 Western
States. Its facilities also provide
substantial flood control, recreation, and fish and wildlife benefits. Visit our website at <a href="http://www.usbr.gov/">http://www.usbr.gov</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">.</span></p>