BOARD00055 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/2006
• Description: IBCC Director's Report - Interbasin Compact Committee Annual Report to the House of Representatives Com. On Agriculture, Livestock, Natural Resources, and Senate Com. On Agriculture, Energy, Natural
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

NEED NOT BE MEMBERS OF THE BASIN ROUNDTABLE.

(c) USING DATA AND INFORMATION FROM THE STATEWlDE WATER
SUPPL Y INITIATIVE AND OTHER APPROPRIATE SOURCES AND IN COOPERATION
WITH THE ON-GOING ST A TEWlDE WATER SUPPL Y INITIATIVE, DEVELOP A
BASIN-WIDE CONSUMPTIVE AND NONCONSUMPTIVE WATER SUPPLY NEEDS
ASSESSMENT, CONDUCT AN ANALYSIS OF AVAILABLE UNAPPROPRIATED
WATERS WITHIN THE BASIN, AND PROPOSE PROJECTS OR METHODS, BOTH
STRUCTURAL AND NONSTRUCTURAL, FOR MEETING THOSE NEEDS AND
UTILIZING THOSE UNAPPROPRIATED WATERS WHERE APPROPRIATE. BASIN
ROUNDTABLES SHALL ACTIVELY SEEK THE INPUT AND ADVICE OF AFFECTED
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, WATER PROVIDERS, AND OTHER INTERESTED
STAKEHOLDERS AND PERSONS IN ESTABLISHING ITS NEEDS ASSESSMENT, AND
SHALL PROPOSE PROJECTS OR METHODS FOR MEETING THOSE NEEDS.
RECOMMENDA TIONS FROM THIS ASSESSMENT SHALL BE FORWARDED TO THE
INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMIITEE AND OTHER BASIN ROUNDTABLES FOR
ANALYSIS AND CONSIDERATION AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAS
APPROVED THE INTERBASIN COMPACT CHARTER.

(d) SERVE AS A FORUM FOR EDUCATION AND DEBATE REGARDING
METHODS FOR MEETING WATER SUPPLY NEEDS; AND

( e) As NEEDED, ESTABLISH ROUNDTABLE SUBCOMMIITEES OR OTHER
MECHANISMS TO FACILITATE DIALOGUE AND RESOLUTION OF ISSUES AND
CONFLICTS WITHIN THE BASIN.

(3) (a) As USED IN THIS SUBSECTION (3), UNLESS THE CONTEXT
OTHERWISE REQUIRES:

(I) "W ATER DIVISION" HAS THE SAME MEANING AS SET FORTH IN
SECTION 37-92-201.

(II) "WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT" MEANS THOSE DISTRICTS
ESTABLISHED BY THE DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES AND DEPICTED ON
MAPS PUBLISHED BY THE DIVISION.

(b) THE FOLLOWING BASIN ROUNDTABLES ARE HEREBY CREATED:

(I) THE SOUTH PLATTE BASIN ROUNDTABLE, CONSISTING OF WATER
DIVISION 1 EXCEPTING THOSE PORTIONS OF WATER DIVISION I LISTED IN
SUBPARAGRAPHS (VIII) AND (IX) OF THIS PARAGRAPH (b);

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