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<br />IBCC Colorado River Basin <br />Minutes of Meeting on October 23, 2006 <br /> <br />1. Next Meeting: Monday, November 27, Glenwood Springs Community Recreation Center, <br />1:00 to 4:00. <br /> <br />a. Agenda: Discuss Water Supply Reserve Account grant requests. The CBRT prefers <br />to move this to first on the agenda, immediately after October minutes are approved. <br /> <br />b. Members are encouraged to bring grant requests for discussion. A sample grant <br />request is included as an appendix to these minutes. <br /> <br />c. The presentation by Xce1 Energy on the Shoshone call reduction may be postponed. Bill <br />Bates of Denver Water will be unable to make the November meeting. <br /> <br />2. New Time: Starting in November, meetings begin at 1:00. <br /> <br />3. Approve September 25 meeting minutes. The minutes were unanimously approved with no <br />substantive changes. <br /> <br />4. IBCC Report: Carlyle Currier <br /> <br />a. The engineering company Camp Dresser McKee (CDM) has been selected to prepare <br />the needs assessment. <br /> <br />b. Kathleen Curry made a motion to propose that at least $2 million of the Water Reserve <br />Account should be given to each roundtable to determine how grants should be allocated. <br />Her motion did not pass. Carlyle Currier supported her motion, and it is slated to come <br />back for a second vote by the IBCC in July, 2007. <br /> <br />c. Instead, $500,000 will be given to each roundtable in each of January 2007 and July <br />2007, the first 2 grant cycles, as earlier proposed. <br /> <br />5. Report fi'om other roundtables. <br /> <br />a. The Arkansas Roundtable has prepared a spreadsheet with over 4,000 cells that address <br />information that can be gathered to perform a needs assessment. There are rows for <br />different river segments and government agencies, and columns for different aspects of <br />the HB 1177 process, such as consumptive and non-consumptive needs, and water <br />availability. <br /> <br />1. They are considering whether this can be put into a GIS relational database, and <br />whether to apply for a SB 179 grant to hire the USGS to prepare this database. <br /> <br />b. The Y amp a- White Roundtable, which only meets quarterly, has prepared a grant request <br />fi'om H.B. 1400 in order to investigate the effects of energy development on water <br />supplies. Sue Morea of CDM recommended that the Colorado Roundtable join with and <br /> <br />L\CWCB Imaging\Caleb\Minutes\Colorado\2006\Colorado Minutes Oct 2006 CBRT.doc <br /> <br />1 <br />