IBCC Meeting Notes June 19 2007

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

State Staff

Eric Hecox
Rick Brown
Susan Morea (consultant)

Facilitation Team

Chris Moore, CDR Associates
Diane Tate, CDR Associates

Members of the Public

( Members of the public were in at tendance; the sign in sheets were lost )

Welcome, Introductions and Agenda Review

Harris Sherman opened the meeting with brief remarks, commenting that the four Roundtable
meeting in Montrose the prior day had been productive, and stressing the importance of getting
input on where the Colorado River Water Availability Study. He reviewed th e meeting agenda,
and highlighted the discussion about the consumptive and non - consumptive work groups in the
afternoon.

Eric Hecox covered housekeeping items, remindin g members to turn in travel reimbursement
forms as soon as possible. He raised the question of meeting notes, asking the group to consider
whether it would like to stay with the longer, detailed format used for recent meetings, or return
to a shorter, sum mary format used at the beginning of the IBCC process. Chris Moore led
introductions.

Colorado River Basin Activities and Issues

Rick Brown opened the discussion by noting three proposed principal areas of focus for the
Colorado River Water Availability study: legal, technical, and political. The State Attorney
General’s office will lead legal aspects of the study. Randy Seaho lm, Ray Alvorado, and Ross
Bethel will all contribute to the technical portion of the study, and Rick will be involved both
with the political issues, as well as serve as overall coordinator for the effort

Rick introduced James Eckland from the Colorado River Sub - Unit within the State Attorney
General’s (AG) office. James thanked the group for the invitation to start this dialogu e about
legal issues along the Colorado, and noted that the sub - unit is a relatively recent addition to AG’s
office. The AG’s office has other sub - units which handle litigation over compact issues on other
rivers Colorado shares with adjacent states. Whe n the Colorado sub - unit began, the AG’s office
considered the fact that 7 states and 2 countries share the river, and came to the task of
evaluating the legal ramifications of the law of the river with “eyes wide open . ” James told the
group his remarks wo uld follow a handout, distributed around the room, and offered to have
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