OSPB Request - 11-1-06

• Title: The Interbasin Compact Process: An Update on the Status of HB 05-1177 & HB 06-1400
• Date: 11/1/2006
• IBCC - Doc Type: Program Planning, Budget & Contracts

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

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