North Platte October24minutesrev1

• Basin Roundtable: North Platte
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 10/24/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

North Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting 10-24-06

2 million dollar level will be discussed during the IBCC meeting to be held in
November, 2006. As it now stands, in January and again in July 2007, $500,000
will go into each basin account to be made available to applicants who would
request approval from the roundtables for u\1lding from the basin accounts. Kent
Crowder added that one IBCC member requested they switch into the voting
mode to make that decision. Each roundtable must approve projects and we can
expect that if the roundtable approves a project be funded from the Basin
Account, it will be approved by the CWCB. We will be getting final Criteria and
Guidelines document with application materials very soon. As agreed the Criteria
and Guidelines will be reviewed every October.

Approval qf Minutes
Kent returned to agenda item to consider the minutes of September 26. Carl Trick made
motion to approve September 26 minutes and Tom Hackleman seconded the motion.
Minutes were approved.

Three State Cooperative Agreement
Ted Kowalski, with the CWCB provided an overview and history of the Three State
Agreement, the resulting Platte River Recovery Implementation Program which is
currently ready for final signatures (see attached fact sheet) and the North Platte depletion
plan. Ted described the three main elements of the program and the objectives to
accomplish within the "First Increment" (13 years) of the program
1. Water-Increase stream flows in the central Platte River during relevant time
periods through retiming and water conservation/supply projects in an effort to
improve and maintain habitat for the endangered or threatened target species, the
interior least tern, the whooping crane, the piping plover and the pallid sturgeon.
First Increment objective is to reduce shOliages to target flows an average of
130,000 to 150,000 acre-feet of water per year at Grand Island, Nebraska.
2. Land-Enhance, restore and protect habitat lands for the target species. First
Increment objective is to protect, restore and maintain 10,000 acres of associated
habitat along the central Platte between Lexington and Chapman, Nebraska.
3. Accommodate certain new water related activities through implementation of
state and federal depletion plans. This is to allow continued growth and water
development to occur in the Platte River basin along with improving conditions
for the target species.

The Platte River Recovery Implementation Program is to provide compliance for existing
and certain new water related activities throughout the Platte River basin upstream of the
Loup River confluence, the land acquisition and management for the target bid species
will occur in the central Platte River region ( Lexington to Chapman, Nebraska), and
Program water activities would be designed to provide benefits for the target bird species
in the central Platte River region and for the pallid sturgeon in the lower Platte River
region below the confluence with the Elkhorn River.

Ted distributed a document outlining "Colorado's Plan for Future Depletions" which
details the responsibilities for mitigating the impact of new water related activities on the

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