IBCC Meeting Notes June 19 2007

• Title: IBCC Meeting Notes
• Date: 6/19/2007
• Interbasin CC - Doc Type: Meeting Notes

Harris Sherman: We have to demonstrate to t he legislature that monies are being spent
for good purposes. This may mean that the Roundtables need to say no to bad proposals
for projects. We need to be able to demonstrate impressive results.

Rick Brown: A c arrot is always better than a stick. The Gunnison Roundtable took a
longer time but was very deliberative in their process of developing criteria and getting
applicants follow through. The Colorado R oundtable has also done a good job.

The group ended discussion by agreeing that the right peop le were on the committee, and Rep.
Kathleen Curry, an unofficial member, indicated she would participate as she was able.

Needs Assessment – Focus on Non - consumptive Uses

Eric H ecox and Rick Brown opened discussion on the work groups set up to help infor m the
needs assessment process. Time did not allow review of the PowerPoint presentation Eric and
Rick prepared, however they directed the group to slide 19 for a review of the proposed
methodology for assessment of non - consumptive needs, developed during the first work group
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meeting on May 24 , 2007.

Coming out of SWSI II, a process was developed to integrate SWSI and IBCC work on needs
assessments. Rick and Eric reported that the process begins with development of common
attributes and meta - data behin d attributes (from SWSI 2), then setting tentative priorities,
triaging where quantification is needed, developing site - specific quantification, and finally
concludes with implementation. They said the work group is developing tools to help
Roundtables go through the process of identifying non - consumptive priorities, as a step toward
focusing resources in the future, and would like input from the Roundtables on the process.

Discussion with the IBCC:

Ray Wright: I think the p rocess looks goo d and we sho uld go ahead . The e asiest way to
create benefit for non - consumptive use s is to be creative with how we use water that is
already flowing in the river, perhaps on its way to someone downstream.

Chips B a rry: We need to make sure that there will be enough science and facts built into
the quantification of water that is needed. Any needs assessment should q uantify what
volume of water is needed (volume), for what purpose and at what time . We can work
with this kind of detail much easier than with just a vol ume figure.

Eric Hecox: We are looking to putting together a steering committee, made up of experts
in their fields, to help us think about what kind of scientific base is needed. We want to
match science with what the Roundtables see as priorities, and would like input on who
should be on this steering committee.

Melinda Kassen: There are models that provide scientific data on required environmental
flows, however data does not exist on some recreational uses, and information is still
subjective. Some of these issues may be more complicated and subjective than others.
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