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• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2007
• Description: OWCDP Section - Guidelines for Financial Assistance to Develop Drought Mitigation Plans
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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3. Definitions

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Acre Foot: The amount of water it would take to cover an acre of land to a depth of 1 foot,
approximately 325,851 gallons.

Board: Means the Colorado Water Conservation Board as defined in ~~37~60-101,
103 and 104, C.R.S.

Board Office: The Colorado Water Conservation Board's office is located at 1313 Sherman
Street, 7th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. The phone number is [phone]. The facsimile
number is [phone]. The Board's website is http://www.cwcb.state.co.us.

Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB): A division of the Colorado Department of
Natural Resources, created in 1937. The Board's authority and role is defined in ~37-60-101, et
seq., CRS. The Mission Statement of the CWCB is to conserve, develop, protect, and manage
Colorado's water for present and future generations.

Covered Entity: means each 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
total demand for such customers of two thousand acre-feet or more.

Local Governmental Entity: means a county, municipality, city and county, water district,
water and sanitation district, metropolitan district that provides water services, water conservation
district, water conservancy district, or water authority.

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Drought Mitigation: Those actions and programs that are used prior to and during periods of
unusual water scarcity to reduce the occurrence and severity of water supply shortages, and
manage water supply and water demand appropriately.

Drought Mitigation Plan: A document that indicates how an entity or set of entities will
manage impacts of water shortages over the short or long term. It may contain information on
coordinated drought monitoring, impact assessment, response to emergency drought problems,
and mitigation of drought impacts.

Drought Response: Those actions taken during a drought to manage water supplies and water
demand appropriately.

Individual with the Authority to Commit Resources: Any individual within the submitting
entity that has the authority to commit the organization's resources for the development and
implementation ofa water conservation plan. Examples include the City of County Manager,
Mayor, Executive Director of a Special District, City Councilperson, etc.

Office: means the Office of Water Conservation and Drought Planning created in section ~3 7 -60-
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Plan Elements: means those components of Drought Mitigation Plans that address actions and
programs that may be undertaken by a submitting entity to develop, implement, monitor, review,
and revise its Drought Mitigation Plan.

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