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

(b) MEMBERS SHALL SERVE FOR A TERM OF FIVE YEARS; EXCEPT
THAT INITIAL TERMS SHALL BE STAGGERED PURSUANT TO EACH
ROUNDTABLE'S BYLAWS. VACANCIES SHALL BE FILLED PURSUANT TO THE
SAME CRITERIA AS THE ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT.

( C) THE MEMBER OF THE COLORADO WATER CONSER V A TION BOARD
WHO RESIDES WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE BASIN ROUNDTABLE SHALL ACT
AS THE BOARD'S LIAISON TO THE BASIN ROUNDTABLE AND TO THE
INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMITIEE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENSURING THE
PROPER COORDINATION OF COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
INFORMATION, POLICIES, AND RESOURCES. SUCH COORDINATION SHALL BE
SUBJECT TO A V AlLABLE STAFF RESOURCES AS DETERMINED BY THE DIRECTOR
OF THE BOARD AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES.

(5) A BASIN ROUNDTABLE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A LOCAL PUBLIC
BODY FOR PURPOSES OF THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW, PART 4 OF ARTICLE 6 OF
TITLE 24, c.R.S.

37-75-105. Interbasin compact committee - report - repeal.
(1) (a) To FACILITATE THE PROCESS OF INTERBASIN COMPACT
NEGOTIATIONS, A TWENTY-SEVEN-MEMBER INTERBASIN COMPACT
COMMITTEE IS HEREBY CREATED. THE INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMITTEE
SHALL INCLUDE TWO REPRESENTATIVES FROM EACH BASIN ROUNDTABLE, AT
LEAST ONE OF WHOM SHALL RESIDE WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE
ROUNDTABLE AND AT LEAST ONE OF WHOM SHALL OWN ADJUDICATED WATER
RIGHTS, INCLUDING OWNERS OF SHARES IN A DITCH OR RESERVOIR COMPANY
OR THEIR AGENTS, SIX AT-LARGE MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR,
ONE MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE HOUSE AGRICULTURE,
LIVESTOCK, AND NA TURAL RESOURCES COMMIITEE, ONE MEMBERAPPOlNTED
BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE SENATE AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES,
AND ENERGY COMMITfEE, AND THE DIRECTOR OF COMPACT NEGOTIATIONS.
THE GOVERNOR'S APPOINTMENTS SHALL COME FROM GEOGRAPHICALLY
DIVERSE PARTS OF THE STATE AND SHALL INCLUDE INDIVIDUALS WITH
EXPERTISE IN ENVIRONMENTAL, RECREATIONAL, LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL,
INDUSTRIAL, AND AGRICULTURAL MA TIERS. No MORE THAN THREE OF THE
GOVERNOR'S APPOINTEES SHALL BE AFFILIATED WITH THE SAME POLITICAL
PAR TY. ANY SUCH AGENT SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE MEMBER THE AGENT
REPRESENTS AND SHALL RESIDE WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE MEMBER'S
ROUNDTABLE.

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