8 Annotated Bibliography

• Title: Colorado’s Interbasin Compact Negotiations: Development of an Institutional Framework - Annotated Bibliography
• Date: 12/17/2004
• Author: Russell George, Frank McNulty, Peter Nichols, Eric Hecox
• IBCC - Doc Type: Program Planning, Budget & Contracts

Revised: 7/26/2007
extensive appendices contain the original text of key court decisions, legislation,
and interstate compacts.

Examples of Agreements

Upper Blue River Basin Memorandum of Agree ment and Lower Blue River Basin
Memorandum of Agreement .
These agreements can serve as examples of what might come out of the compact
negotiation process (i.e. the end product). Ted Kowalski recommended these.

SWSI

Documents Included:
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Executive Summary
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Project Overview Fact Sheet
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Water Demands Fact Sheet
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Update to the Legislature – June 2004
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Methodologies for Estimating and Projecting Urban and Agricultural Demands
and Environmental and Recreational Flows – November 2003
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Development of Alternatives Over view
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Press release – January, 2004

Basin of Origin Protection Literature and Legislation

Outline of Basin of Origin Protection issues.

2003 CO H.B. 1113. Concerning the inclusion in a decree for a water right that diverts
water from a water division of conditions to mitigate the effects of the diversion on the
basin of origin. Introduced January 10, 2003. Sponsored by Salazar.

1997 Compilation of Basin of Origin Legislation from 1987 to the Present.
Memorandum from Colorado Legislative Council Staff.

MacDonnell, L. J., C. W. Howe, J. N. Corbridge Jr., and W. A. Ahrens. 1985. Guidelines
for Developing Area - of - Origin Compensation . Colorado Water Resources research
Institute, Colorado State University, Completion Report No. 139.

General Colorado Water Information

Endangered Fish Flow and Colorado River Compact Water Development Workgroup.
1995. Colorado River Compact Water Development Projection, Final Report .

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