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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I A portion of this meeting was devoted to a discussion of the concept of alternating the office and associated duties of Operations Secretary between the states, While there seems to be some consensus that the prospect of the implementation of this idea may facilitate resolution of issues, however, it is also obvious that such resolution is a prerequisite in order to prevent either extreme vacillations of operational and accounting practices from one administration to the ne:l.1, or dictating acts against conscience, Never the less, it was decided that the best way to proceed would be to schedule a meeting involving, at minimum, the personal participation of both the Operations Secretary and the Assistant Operations Secretary and as many of their staff as may seem appropriate and where a significant portion of the agenda is devoted to exploring the concept. It is believed that the purposes of this meeting will be facilitated if the Assistant Operations Secretary, as a Kansas official and representative of the state that proposed evaluation of the feasibility of the idea would prepare a brief concept paper outlining the potential benefits that might be derived from the proposed arrangement so that Colorado officials might have something concrete to consider and make response to, The Operations Secretary committed to write to the Assistant Operations Secretary to make this request and propose alternative meeting dates, In a letter to Thomas R, PointOD, a co-member of the ARCA Engineering Committee, dated August 19,2003, the Kansas Chief Engineer urged e:l.1Jedient disposition of matrix issue 4Al by recommending confirmation of the practice of assessing evaporation to all accounts, including the Permanent Pool, based on a pro rata distribution in relation to the volume of water in each account. This suggestion was made without acknowledgement of the additional loss to the Permanent Pool associated with that methodology, which has been estimated to be between 300 to 1000 acre-feet per year and determined by the Operations Secretary to have been 508 acre-feet for CY 1998, Neither has any consideration been given to resolve matrix issue 4A2 regarding alternative sources of water that may be authorized to be used by Colorado to replace such additional losses, On August 19, 2003, the Operations Secretary provided the electronic files containing data and analysis that formed the basis for Mr, Ley's conclusions included in his paper provided to Kansas for the purpose of facilitating discussions concerning a procedure that may be agreed upon by the state's administrative officials in determining transit losses as is their responsibility under Section 11 (E)(4) of the 1980 Operating Plan resolution, This pertains to matrix issue 4C1. By letter dated August 26,2003, Mr, Salter presented an interpretation of the 1980 Operating Plan that he believes obviates the need for Kansas to prepare a clarifying resolution thought to be necessary in formulating the description of matrix issue 4C2, While this paradigm shift is certainly worth considering and may indeed be the key to resolving how delivery deficits ought to be handled, the main focus of our energy needs to be on how the states should determine if deficits have occurred", the crux of the matter is matrix issue 4C I, By email.alsodatedAugust26.Mr. Salter advised of his plans to have comments pertaining to the Ley r~port prepared before our next meeting (not yet scheduled), which should advance matrix issue 4C I discussions to define a mutually acceptable procedure for determining transit losses and delivery deficits that may occur in connection with Kansas Section II releases, Additionally, in the same email.Mr. Salter stated his intentions to provide a letter within the next couple of weeks providing his comments concerning the 5/02 draft resolution offered by Colorado as a possible means of resolving matrix issues 481&2.