Work Plan 2007 - Interbasin Compact Process.do

• Title: Work Plan 2007 - Interbasin Compact Process
• IBCC - Doc Type: Program Planning, Budget & Contracts

to honor their work by ensuring their time is well spent in the most pr oductive manner
possible as they carry out their challenging work. It is also important to have some
consistency and standards so members of the public and potential Water Supply Reserve
Account applicants can effectively interface with the roundtables.

Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC)

The IBCC is leading and supporting the efforts of the basin roundtables. In 2007, the
IBCC and their Working Groups will continue to meet and their work will predominately
consist of addressing bridging issues, contin uing their working groups’ efforts, receiving
presentations on the results of SWSI Phase II and integrating those with their bridging
issue deliberations, and receiving presentations from host roundtables. The IBCC will
invite the new Governor and/or memb ers of his administration to meet with them.

Meetings
The Director of Compact Negotiations is the Chair of the IBCC and sets the meeting
schedules, location, and agendas. In 2006, the IBCC meet on a monthly basis and held its
meetings in Denver during th e legislative session. When the session ended, the IBCC
moved their meetings around the state and held them in conjunction with local roundtable
meetings. IBCC meetings were held along with the Arkansas roundtable (Pueblo), the
Rio Grande roundtable (Ala mosa), the Yampa/White roundtable (Steamboat Springs),
and the Southwest roundtable (Durango).

In 2007, the IBCC will continue to have meetings monthly , and of no more than a day in
duration. Meetings will be held in Denver as long as the legislature i s in session.
M eetings will be conducted in basins in conjunction with r oundtable meetings once the
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legislative session ends. The first meeting in 2007 is scheduled for February 2 . We
will work with Legislators on the IBCC to develop a schedule for me etings after
February.

Bridging Issues
The IBCC has agreed that in the coming year they would like to address a series of
bridging issues. Bridging issues are water issues that may affect multiple basins or the
state as a whole. For each bridging issu e, the IBCC will:

1) Receive educational presentations on the issue including hearing from basins
affected by the bridging issue;

2) Deliberate and discuss the issue in details; and

3) If appropriate, make recommendations where and when it would have value.
These steps may take place in one IBCC meeting dedicated to the bridging issue, or occur
over a series of meetings at which other work is done.

The IBCC and staff have identified the following potential bridging issues for discussion
in 2007 and beyond:
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Colorad o River basin issues – the Colorado River Compact, “unappropriated
water,” and the impacts of a potential call.
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Interstate river obligation on the Arkansas, South Platte, North Platte, and Rio
Grande Rivers.
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