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2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended Page 6 of 49 that request, as well as this bill and how the two overlap or how they don't. So, if you'd like to comment on that, that might be helpful for us. Rep. PeJ1JY: I'd be happy to. Obviously I think a critical component of this dialogue going forward is to find a meaningful way to integrate the SWSI process with this process. I know Representative Hoppe carried that bill, has shown a great deal of leadership and the generated data that is going to be critical to whatever process we use to begin the effort of meeting our needs; whatever that ultimately looks like. I actually received a letter from a member of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, one of the directors who had some interesting ideas. I'll get a copy of his testimony and circulate it. I don't know if its been circulated already. But he had some interesting ideas about how we might want to mesh SWSI in this innovation compact process together. But his observation was that in terms of identifying ways to meet our water needs that the model in 1177 is a good way to make sure it's sort of a bottom up approach, rather than the alternative. But it's an issue that we are going to have to decide on, I think as a committee going forward is this bill on this floor. Madam Chair: I guess I don't feel like the question's answered yet, but I'm glad you want to talk about it. Rep. PeJ1JY: Well, I think we have to integrate it and how we do that, I think, there's a range of options. For example, you could incorporate members of the CWCB into the basin roundtables themselves. His recommendations, this gentleman's recommendations on the CWCB was to let them chair the basin roundtables so that there was continuity between the first phase of SWSI and the next phase of actually identifying projects and methods for meeting our water needs. That's one idea. The other idea is to involve them at the inter-basin compact committee level, the statewide level, again to ensure that CWCB has a strong and active voice and you don't lose continuity or you don't lose all that was gained in the first phase of the SWSI process. Madam Chair: Representative Penry, when I brought up this issue before you had a really good response about timing and how this approach is more of a long-term effort, whereas the statewide water supply www.escriptionist.com Page 6 of 49