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Interbasin Compact Committee <br />Rio Grande Basin Roundtable <br /> <br />Meeting Minutes – April 11 , 2006 <br />Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado <br /> <br />Attendees: <br />See separate record. <br /> <br />Regrets: Steve Vandiver and John Shawcroft <br /> <br />Mike Gibson, Chairperson opened the meeting at 2 :00 P.M. <br /> <br />Approval of Minutes, Meeting of Feb. 14 and March14, 2006 <br />Moved to accept - Ed Nei lson <br />nd <br />2 - JB Alexa nd er <br />Approved <br /> <br />Presentation on Rio Grande Compact - What it Means to the San Luis Valley : <br /> <br /> <br />Mike Sullivan, District Engineer , Colorado Division of Water Resources, presented on <br />this subject with the following key points: <br /> <br />History/Chronology <br />Compact is an agreement between states re a natural resource — water <br />Chronology of conflicts leading to compact negotiations starting in 1920’s <br />Maps of measuring st ations and flow s — including transbasin diversions (which do not <br />factor into compact) <br /> <br />Compact Articles <br /> <br />1 - Definitions <br />2 - Gauging Locations (indexes) <br />3 - Colorado delivery schedules - based on six gages - RioDelCo, ConMogCO, <br />SanO rtCO, CosOrtC O , NorLasC O & Rio LobC O ) <br />4 - New Mexico delivery obligation <br />5 - Moving changing gauges <br />6 - Accounting for Credits and Debits <br />7 - No post - compact storage if project storage is below 400,000 - acre feet. <br />8 - Release of post - compact storage (to the extent of deb t ) when project storage is <br />less than 600, 000 acre feet <br />9 - San Juan - Chama project <br />10 - Trans - Mountain water accounting <br />11 - Quells Water Quality concern as it stands at signing <br />12 - Sets up Compact Commission <br />13 - Review of non - substantive provisions of the compact for changes <br />14 - Sets delivery schedules irrespective of ch anges in Mexico deliveries <br /> Page 1 of 5 RGBRT Minutes <br /> <br /> April 11 , 2006 <br />