Gunnison 3-5-07 Meeting Minutes PDF

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March 5, 2007 Report from the IBCC Representatives Bill Trampe reported that there had been no IECC meeting since the last Roundtable meeting in February. Marc Catlin noted that there are good minutes of each IBCC meeting available, and he could provide those if anyone is interested. Eric Hecox added that those minutes are posted on the website. Eric Hecox announced that the next IECC meeting will be March 30. Planned are three main discussions: 1) task orders received from all roundtables, 2) the report from the CWCB in anticipation of the annual review, and 3) a continued discussion regarding the larger Colorado River system. Report from the Educational Committee There was no repo11 from the Educational Committee. Report from the Black Canyon Quantification Committee Ken Spann gave a review of the status conference in the Black Canyon Case. He stated that 84 additional stipulations were presented to C01ll1 and along with the 22 original stipulations could potentially cut the objector pool by a third. The next status conference will be June 29 in Gunnison. Update on SWSI II Steve Glazer reported that the CWCB released three draft reports as pm1 of SWSI II. These rep0l1s discuss water use efficiency, prioritizing and quantifying environmental and recreational technical roundtable committee, and avoiding permanent agriculture dry-up through alternative strategies. These reports are available on the IECC website. Members of each committee have until the end of the month to submit any comments. Final reports are scheduled for the end of April. The reports can then be used by the Roundtables as a tool for needs assessment work. Eric Hecox added that the individuals that were involved in preparing these rep0l1s would be available to talk to the Roundtables and he would be willing to help coordinate these talks. 1. Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (CREDA) Kent Holsinger of Holsinger Law, LLC gave a presentation to the Roundtable members regarding CREDA's report entitled "Hydroelectric Power in the Upper Colorado River Basin." The report can be downloaded at http://www.holsingerlaw.com/. 2. Gunnison Basin Water Needs Assessment Tyler Mm1ineau summarized a letter to the Roundtable from Eric Hecox. The letter addressed the Roundtable's first six tasks for which the Roundtable had requested technical assistance from the State. Eric suggested that Tasks I, 2, 3, and 6 could be funded and completed. Eric suggested that Task 4 be initiated at the next funding cycle, and Task 5 be accomplished as a part of CWCB's water availability studies or funded separately with SB 179 money. These two tasks were viewed to be beyond the resources available to the Roundtable at this time. Pete Kasper made a motion to have the Needs Assessment Committee review the remaining 12 tasks to be accomplished to determine funding requirements and priority. The motion was seconded by Frank Kugel. After some discussion the motion carried unanimously. 3