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continue to be available. But the Water Conservation Board has <br />a fiduciary duty to the Construction Fund and a fiduciary duty <br />to the Department of Basin account, as Ms. Kassen pointed out. <br />What we intend for this money to be used for is for local <br />communities through the Interbasin Compact Committee effort and <br />the Water Conservation Board, to take command of their own water <br />destiny. <br />SWSI, Statewide Water Supply Initiative, has shown us that <br />we have a 20 percent gap between no w and 2025 - 2035. That is <br />real and it exists in every basin except for the northwest. In <br />some that shortage is going to be localized, like in the <br />[unintelligible] Colorado. But, the effect and the results will <br />be very real. These are precisely the types of communities that <br />would be assisted by this program. <br />Making this money available to them to either match with <br />other funds that they could get, or perhaps go through the <br />environmental compliance or perhaps environmental mitigation, <br />all of these things th at are necessary to help small <br />communities, agricultural producers get off the dime and start <br />moving forward with these projects that they need to make their <br />communities viable for the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years. <br />As far as the concerns about the 1177 Interb asin Compact <br />Process, I believe these to be unfounded. We have -- we started <br />- 17 - <br /> <br />