WSP10816

• File Number: 8126.300
• Description: Arkansas River Coordinating Committee - Correspondence
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 12/1/1994
• Author: ARCC
• Title: Revised Draft Work Plan ARCC
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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II. ARCC responsibilities/Goals/Objectives

The Executive Order lists the following responsibilities for the ARCC:

a. "Provide advice to '" the State Engineer on ... rules relating to the
administration of water in the Arkansas basin, including ..,:

(1) .. , post-compact pumping depletions to useable statel ine flows
required to meet interstate compact obligations;

(2) ... pumping depletions to the flow of the Arkansas River In
Colorado; ,..,

b. Provide recommendations to the Governor, General Assembly, Attorney General,
State Engineer, and Water Conservation Board on an appropriate remedy for past
depletions to useable stateline flows (if) the Supreme Court of the United States
(so) finds .., or ... the states ... decide to negotiate a remedy,

c. Make recommendations to support efforts ... to accomplish water,
wildlife, and recreation goals for the Arkansas River and associated
reservoirs .... II

Executive Order, paragraph 4

The Executive Order directs the ARCC to "help to identify creative, coordinated, equitable,
effective, and economical actions related to the full scope of its responsibilities." Executive Order,
paragraph 3. The ARCC recognizes the importance and value of a coordinated response to the
responsibilities before it and will strive to develop an integrated solution and consensus .positions on
all issues through a full airing and consideration of all points of view. The understanding of each
others perspective will be as important a the actual advice developed by the ARCC.

The ARCC has had 3 meetings to date (September 22, October 12, October 27, 1994). Out of

those meetings has come a better understanding of the responsibilities assigned to it and the factual and

legal background for those issues. Due to the ongoing nature of the litigation with Kansas, certain

issues can not be finally resolved at this time. Other issues demand or are susceptible of a more

immediate solution. This work plan incorporates both a degree of flexibility and urgency in its

schedules, in an effort to meet time frames being driven by the Kansas v. Colorado litigation and the