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Section 8 Attachment Checklist of Evaluation Criteria . Promotina Collaboration and Coooeration a. The water activity addresses multiple needs or issues, including consumptive and/or nonconsumptive needs, or the needs and issues of multiple users or multiple basins. 1) Yes, multiple needs, multiple users and multiple uses. See Section 3 attachment. b. The number and types of entities represented in the application and the degree to which the activity will promote cooperation and collaboration, and if applicable, the degree to which the water activity is effective in addressing intrabasin or interbasin needs or issues. 1) Mancos Water Conservancy District, Mancos Conservation District, Mancos Rural Water Company and several Irrigation Companies are represented in the Application. The proposed expansion will promote significant cooperation and collaboration, particularly concerning adequacy of water supplies, the ongoing Water Conservation Project, Watershed Management Plan and preservation of agriculture/ open space in the Valley. 2) The activity can be effective in addressing intrabasin water needs, if the results of the feasibility study and the cost benefit analysis lead to implementation of the project. . Facilitatino Water Activitv Imolementation c. Funding from this account will reduce the uncertainty that the water activity will be implemented. For this criteria the applicant should discuss how receiving funding from the Account will make a significant difference in the implementation of the water activity (i.e, how will receiving funding enable the water activity to move forward). 1) Yes, funding of the feasibility studies from this account will reduce the uncertainty that the Expansion Project will be implemented. The attention and resources of the Mancos Conservancy District are presently occupied in rehabilitation of the existing inlet canal. Money is simply not available today to initiate feasibility studies; hence this application for assistance. See criteria d.-2). d. There is an urgency of need for the water activity and/or any compelling "window of opportunity" that may be missed without funding from the Account. 1) Yes, there is an urgency of need to determine if additional water can be stored at the existing Jackson Gulch Reservoir. It will take years to study the Expansion Project and even more years to raise money and undertake implementation of the project. It is urgent that we complete the feasibility and cost benefit analysis to be sure that this is the one . - 1 -