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2-28 House Committee amended to appropriations Page 7 of 22 Rep. PelllY Again, with the intent of, if they need to encourage dialogue to solve their own internal issues, this would be a mechanism to do that. But it's not required, it's entirely discretionary. Madame Chair: Well earlier on in the bill, I think it was earlier on in the bill, it talked about how they're, yeah on Page 5, how these individual roundtables will establish dialogue or operating procedures, goals and objectives, and I'm assuming that as part of their dialogue they can figure out how they want to set up subcommittees. Was this a request to actually have language in the bill though to - Rep. PelllY We had, it's hard for me to reconstmct the source of it, but we had some people talk about the need for sort ofInterbasin, or Intra- Basin resolution of conflicts, and so, you know, whether or not it's absolutely vital or not. But there was some desire to have something in the language in the bill that said basins are encouraged to resolve their own problems through this particular mechanism. Madame Chair: Hmm. Okay, thanks. Any questions on Page 6? Okay, moving on then to Page 7, L008, looks like. Rep. PelllY L008, at this point in the bill we worked with the water community to make sure that the basin roundtables and the boundaries that we used reflected beyond the ground reality. And these are a number of technical and substantive changes. The North Plat Basin Roundtable is created. The North Plat Bridge is distinct hydrologically and geographically from the Basin and it should have a separate roundtable. The North Metro Basin Roundtable, as originally drafted, was too broad in its boundaries, we heard from some folks, particularly nOlihern. So to be most effective it was - folks from nOlihern asked us to include - redraw that area so that the Denver metro area doesn't extent beyond the Henderson Gate. So again, we're sort of really ground tmthing our roundtables at this stage. And then we, the water interest from the Arkansas River Basin wanted a single basin. Originally we had Colorado Springs in Pueblo broken out of that group. They asked to be one single basin and we made it that way in the final draft. So again, this language, this set of amendments was sort of a technical ground-tmthing of the roundtables as they were in the original bill. Madame Chair: Okay, so Representative Penry, just going back to the way the bill used to look. We took away that south area right, the southern? www.escriptionist.com Page 7 of 22