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000645 2002-General Manager's Report January 18 through February 21--Update --.-------------------....----------......------...-------------------.-.-.-....-----.....-. Water Activitv Enterprise Re~ Preferred Storage Options Plan Implementation Progress Report PSOP Implementation Legislation- Senator Campbell has agreed to sponsor our PSOP legislation in the U.S. Senate, We also met with Senator Allard; he has indicated that he will co-sponsor the legislation, Obviously, that was a very important step in our process to implement the PSOP, The hearings are planned for March 20 in the House, the day before our March board meeting (we may want to consider changing the date or allowing me to join by conference call or video conference). Senate hearings may be scheduled that same week. Our revised legislation will be re-introduced in the House, so the old bill number H.R. 1714 will change, Just as things are moving forward on the legislation, the River District has raised another issue. They want to change the terms of Section 12 of the legislation, which provided protection for the west slope against additional trans-mountain diversion without their consent. Lee Miller met with the River District and Colorado Springs to discuss the issue but no resolution was reached. Staff of the River District is now in Washington, D.C. discussing their concerns with the Colorado delegation, I've also been on the phone with congressional staffers in D.C. I'm not sure how this issue will affect our schedule, but I've told Larry Hojo, Congressman Hefley's legislative director, that the legislation should stay on track for the March 20 hearing, So far, he agrees, I'm not sure how Congressman Mcinnis' office will deal with the issue. Although I did talk with Mcinnis' chief of staff and he said that he would talk to the River District about the issue, Update: We have a conference call scheduled with the River District on February 22 to further discuss and hopefully address their concerns. Members of the District board and I met with Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Commissioner John Keys at the Colorado Water Congress Annual meeting in Northglenn. We discussed with the Commissioner our plans for the implementation of our PSOP and the need for Reclamation's support of our federal legislation. He was very supportive of our plans and said that there were just one or two details that had to be worked out in the process of passing the legislation, but that Reclamation was very supportive of the PSOP legislation. Plans are in the works for a meeting with Bennett Raley, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, to gain Bush Administration support for the legislation. With all this work in progress hopefully we'll be ready for the March hearings,