BOARD00079 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 11/14/2006
• Description: OWCDP Section- Proposed Revisions to Guidelines for Financial Assistance to Covered Entities to Develop Water Conservation Plans
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Adopted by the CWCB May 25, 2005
Revised by the Board January 24, 2006

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ii) Financial assistance may also be provided to any Colorado municipality, agency,
utility, including any privately owned utility, or other publicly owned entity with
a legal obligation to supply, distribute, or otherwise provide water at retail to
domestic, commercial, industrial, or public facility customers, and that has a
current or future total annual demand for such customers of less than two
thousand acre-feet, as long as that entity can demonstrate that it will have a
customer demand of greater than 2,000 acre-feet within one year of receipt of any
grant money or on average over the next five years.

To apply, an applicant must demonstrate that:

. It is in fact a covered entity (as defined above); through the disclosure of its
organizational structure, its charter (or equivalent), and its annual retail water demand for
the past five years; or that
. It is in fact an entity that is soon to become a covered entity; through the disclosure of its
organizational structure, its charter (or equivalent), and its annual retail water demand for
the past five years, and a reasonable engineering estimate of future annual retail demand
for the next three to five years based on population projections, building permits,
expected new taps, and/or some other credible information demonstrating that the entity
will become a covered entity within a reasonable period of time.

,A. written statement from tAe entity's governing board or eqlii'lalent must accompany the
application to demonstFate that the entity has tee organizational commitment to ~lan and
implement effective long term water savings measures and ~rograms.

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b) Application Submittal Requirements-
To apply for financial assistance for development of a water conservation plan, any eligible entity
may submit an application to the Office for consideration. Below are the requirements for the
application submittal.

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1. The name and contact information of the entity seeking the grant.
2. A listffig of the organizations and/or individuals including those hired or otherwise
retained by the entity that will assist in preparation of the Plan, and a written statement of
their role and contributions, if known.
3. The identification of retail water delivery by the covered entity for each of the past five
years (in acre-feet or million gallons) and {Aadditional information characterizing past
water use by sector (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial, irrigation) and source (e.g.,
surface water, groundwater, etc.) is preferred but not reqliired].
4. For an entity that is soon to become a covered entity (see 4(a(ii))), a reasonable
engineering estimate must be submitted with detailed projections of future annual retail
demand for the next three years based on predicted population, building permits,
expected new taps, and/or some other credible information demonstrating that the entity
will become a covered entity within a reasonable period of time.
5. Background characterizing the water system, potential growth and any other pertinent
issues that relate to the stated evaluation criteria. Information provided must include:
a. Current, and if available, past per capita water use for the last five years and the
basis for this calculation
b. Past, current and predicted population served by the entity and the source of this
information
c. Estimated water savings goals to be achieved through implementation of the Plan

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