2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended

• Title: 2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended
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2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended

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Madam Chair:

Ms'. Schreier:

allowed to proceed outside of this process to develop water storage
options and if there is a project and developed outside of this
project or outside of this process, there should be no penalty for
not using the compact negotiation committee.

It is my concern that if indeed Representative Rose and myself
come up with an agreement outside of this process that it not be
held up in some sort of permitting or process because we did come
up and did not go through this process through the roundtables. It'
important that it remains a voluntary roundtable and that we can
still actively pursue an agreement. Thank you for your time and as
I said, we will continue to work with Representative Penry and of
course Director George to address our concerns. I will be available
for questions. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Cat Schreier, are you still here? Where are
you? Oh, there you are. Okay. Could you join us please?

My name is Cat Schreier. I'm a senior water resources engineer
with Golder Associates. I formerly worked as an independent
consultant and contractor before the CWCB, for which I organized
a series of basin planning meetings throughout the state in 2000
and 2001.

I also formerly worked for the NOlih Carolina Division of Water
Resources where I drafted initial regulations for water management
in the eastern one-third of the state and served there during the
development of that state's first cycle of basin wide planning
efforts.

I currently work for Golder Associates, which has been a leading
consultant in the provision of technical and planning support for
water shed planning units in the state of Washington under that
state's water shed planning Act of 1998.

I also worked in 2003 for a member of this committee. I'm a little
more comfortable sitting behind the members than in front of
them. It's certainly less comfortable having my back to some of
the folks in the room.

But the subject matter of this bill is something with which I'm very
familiar and hope that my comments today and any other input I
can provide over the course of this session will be constmctive and
help lead to an effective and lasting stmcture for the creation and
implementation of locally initiated solutions to water management
issues within the state, in cooperation within and between the

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