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Appendix H Overview - Colorado Water for the 21st Century Act I ~:'j;.J IBCC Responsibilities The Interbasin Compact Committee has a series o~ initial responsibilities. These include establishing by-laws, developing a charter, and creating a Public Education and Outreach Working Group (see Figure 1-1). , Figure 1.1: lnterbasin Compact Committee's Initial Responsibilities By-Laws - The IBCC must establish by-laws to govern its operations and actions, including a required provision addressing how roundtables that opt out of the process may return to the process. Charter - By July 1, 2006 the IBCC must develop a Charter to "govern and guide compact negotiations between roundtables." The Colorado General Assembly must approve this charter before negotiations between roundtables may begin. At a minimum, the Charter must include: · A framework and principles to guide negotiations between roundtables, including policies to ensure that individual compacts do not conflict with one another; · Procedures for ratification of compacts, including a mandatory provision that every affected roundtable must approve the draft compact; · Authorities and procedures to ensure that approved compacts are legally binding and enforceable; and · Procedures for integrating the Interbasin Compact processes with other water planning and development processes, except that no provision may supersede, impair, or modify any local government's "authority, jurisdiction, or permitting powers," Public Education and Outreach - The IBCC must'develop a public education and outreach working group to ensure public education and participation concerning both the activities of the Interbasin Compact Committee and compact negotiations between roundtables. CONI H-4 S:\IBC Support\Report to Leg!slature\A.ppendlx H.doc