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<br /> <br />Basin Roundtable and IBCC Accomplishments for 2005 - 2006 <br />Basin Roundtables <br />Procedural <br />Nine Basin Roundtables fully - formed with elected leadership, IBCC representatives and adopted byl aws; <br />? <br />298 voting Basin Roundtable members, 27 non - voting Basin Roundtable members, and 10 state and federal liaison agencies actively participating; <br />? <br />106 Basin Roundtable Meetings held between August 2005 and October 31, 2006. <br />? <br />Basin Roundtable participation has consistently be around 70 percent; <br />? <br />All Basin Roundtables set their own specific meeting schedule, with most of the Basin Roundtables meeting monthly. <br />? <br />Educational <br />Each Basin Roundtable member was provided with basic water education material complied by the Colorado Foundation for Water Education; <br />? <br />Over 70 water - related presentations delivered to the Basin Roundtables statewide; <br />? <br />Basin Roundtable members have provided feedback on the IBCC Public Education, Participation, and Outreach Working Group’s strate gic planning <br />? <br />efforts. <br />Basin - wide Water Needs Assessments <br />A Water Supply and Needs Report was prepared for each Basin Roundtable utilizing information contained within the SWSI Report; <br />? <br />Most of the Basin Roundtables have either formally adopted or are utili zing their Water Supply and Needs Report as their working needs assessment; <br />? <br />A team of consulting firms is under contract with the State for $600,000 annually to provide technical assistance to the Basin Roundtables. The Basin <br />? <br />Roundtables will direct the us e of this contract by submitting task orders to the consulting team to further develop their needs assessment; <br />Four Basin Roundtables have already submitted one or more task orders; <br />? <br />CSU sponsored a conference in October 2006 to explore how Colorado’s resea rch and academic community can assist the Basin Roundtables with <br />? <br />their needs assessments. <br />Proposed Projects or Methods and the Water Supply Reserve Account <br />All Basin Roundtables provided input in the development of the Water Supply Reserve Account (Senate Bill 06 - 179) Criteria and Guidelines, which <br />? <br />were subsequently adopted; <br />All Basin Roundtables are evaluating proposed water activities to be funded out of the Water Supply Reserve Account. <br />? <br />IBCC <br />Procedural <br />On April 5, 2006, the IBCC established a Charter fulfilling its obligation in C.R.S. 37 - 75 - 105. The IBCC referred the Interbasin Compact Charter to the <br />? <br />Colorado General Assembly on April 6, 2006, and the Charter was approved through House Bill 06 - 1400; <br />On July 30, 2006, the IBCC approved a set of bylaws governing its actions, fulfilling its obligation in C.R.S. 37 - 75 - 105(1)(b); <br />? <br />The IBCC established a Public Education, Participation, and Outreach Working Group, fulfilling its obligation in C.R.S. 37 - 75 - 106; <br />? <br />The IBCC established two additional working group s: a Needs Assessment Working Group and a Criteria and Guidelines Working Group; <br />? <br />On October 18, 2006, the IBCC approved Criteria and Guidelines for the Water Supply Reserve Account; <br />? <br />The IBCC held eight meetings in five different cities throughout the state . <br />? <br />Educational <br />The IBCC Public Education, Participation, and Outreach Working Group has been formed and is creating a work plan to guide their activities ; <br />? <br />The IBCC has received presentations on issues in the Arkansas, Rio Grande, and Yampa/White/Green Basi ns; <br />? <br />The IBCC has received information on non - consumptive water needs throughout the state, including the SWSI Phase II Environmental and <br />? <br />Recreational Technical Roundtable and a presentation by Ms. Melinda Kassen, the environmental and recreational represen tative on the IBCC. <br />Basin - wide Water Needs Assessments <br />The IBCC Needs Assessment Working Group participated in the selection of a consulting team to provide technical assistance to the Basin <br />? <br />Roundtables; <br />The IBCC is encouraging the development of a common technical platform. <br />? <br />Water Supply Reserve Account <br />The IBCC and CWCB jointly established Criteria and Guidelines for the Water Supply Reserve Account, which provides $40 million over the next four <br />? <br />years to be invested in water activities. <br />The Criteria and Guidelines reserve $1 million for each Basin Roundtable in a Basin Account; the remaining $31 million is available on a statewide <br />? <br />competitive basis; <br />Allocations from either the Basin Account or the Statewide Account require approval of the local Basin Roun dtable; <br />? <br />The allocations from this account will be available in January 2007. Allocations from the Basin Accounts may be made at any of the bi - monthly CWCB <br />? <br />meetings. Allocations from the Statewide Account may be made in March and September. <br /> <br />3 <br />