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<br />3-24 House Second Reading <br /> <br />Page 4 of 13 <br /> <br />Mr. Chairmall: <br /> <br />Rep. Czmy <br /> <br />environmentalists to recreationalists, water developers and <br />agricultural interests, who will represent the interests of a given <br />basin. We do that in the nine various basins and sub-basins around <br />the state. <br /> <br />From there we create an Interbasin Compact Committee, which <br />will serve as the venue for negotiation for those several basins. <br />The statewide committee will consist of two representatives from <br />each of the various basin roundtables, which gets you to 18. Seven <br />appointees from the Governor and other places, including the <br />chairpersons of the Ag and Natural Resources Committee. <br /> <br />The concept is very simple. We need to get to work. This state <br />has massive water challenges. For too long the front range has <br />been fighting with the western slope, environmentalists have been <br />fighting with developers, agricultural interests have been fighting <br />with cities. This bill attempts to break that stalemate and put our <br />water dialogue in this state in the direction of progress rather than <br />continued gridlock. So with that I would ask for aYes vote. <br /> <br />Representative Curry <br /> <br />Thank you Mr. Chairman. Members, the House Committee on <br />Agriculture really struggled with this bill and when we took this <br />bill up, we ended up with 17 different amendments after working <br />with the sponsor and a number of parties. And really the way the <br />bill is supposed to fi.Jl1ction right now, so people understand it, is <br />that the statewide committee, which is made up of representatives <br />from across the state from these individual basins and <br />appointments by the Governor, that Committee is charged to meet. <br /> <br />So the individual basins have to figure out which two people <br />they're gonna send. That'll be a challenge for them, but then once <br />they figure that out, the folks would come together and meet and <br />draft a charter. Now the language in the fiscal note and the <br />language in the Committee RepOli spells out the sorts of objectives <br />that the charter is supposed to include. In fact, the bill at this point <br />doesn't authorize any Compacts to be developed. It doesn't <br />authorize any contracts to be signed, any negotiations to be <br />finalized. This sets up a framework for dialogue. That is why, in <br />my belief, that the Committee on Agriculture was able to support <br />the bill. <br /> <br />I would like to just clarify with the sponsor, however, what the <br />fiscal note in fact is needed for in layman's terms. Why <br /> <br />www.escriptionist.com <br /> <br />Page 4 of 13 <br />