4-14 Senate Committee

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4-14 Senate Committee
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Line 20, company or their agents. There are so many different
ways under state law in which we build, craft, draft irrigation
companies, ditch companies, reservoir companies; that we could
not address each nuance of the law in this bill to address all water
rights owners.

So, the lawyer suggested to us that we use the phrase "or their
agents," and that would capture all of these different agricultural
interests and allow them to participate even though we didn't
address every nuance of the law. ORSHA have a contract with the
Bureau of Reclamation and this, of course, is a big issue down in
Senator Isgar's neighborhood; where folks do have contracts with
the BOR for contract water and ought to be a part of this process.
So, we corrected that.

Line 23. There was the thought amongst the group, that we had
been working with on this, that people from outside of the basin
and who have interest in water, legal interest in water, own water
rights, and ought to participate on these other basin round tables.
This language says that three of these people, who do not live in
the basin or own water on the basin, may participate and that these
folks shall be selected.

Line 9. Page - I'm sorry Page 2, line, Page 9, line 2. Mr.
Chairman, this, I believe gets to Senator Entz question earlier. If
no one qualifies for selection language that mns through Line 5,
the - by example, the Colorado River Water Conservation District
does not own rights in the Denver Metro Area. Yet it is probably a
good idea that they participate in that round table or at least have
an opportunity to participate for the purposes of discussion.

Because they don't own water, we had to craft this language a little
differently. So that is where we get the "if no one qualifies," under
that previous section. If there is no round table in the Colorado,
for example, then there would be no appointments made because
these folks here under that sub B are appointed by the round table
members. Without the appointing authority, you have no
appointments made.

Line 6 through 8 on that same page. Addresses the issue of
staggering terms and we simply allow the round table to do that,
they know their members, they know the folks best, they know
their time constraints best and this bill allows them to do that.

Line 12, that same page. Fixes the error that we had, we had the
two phrases reversed in the Bill as it came out of the House, this

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