20b

• Board Meeting Date: 9/18/2007
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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The Committee and its workgroup are examining the collection and distribution of mineral
severance tax. The Workgroup specifically requested information on the CWCB use of its
pOliion of these revenues.

Harris Shennan delivered a memo to the Workgroup that details the need for more than $2.7
billion to meet water project financing demands. A copy of the memo is attached (22b-8).

NEW STREAM AND LAKE PROTECTION CHIEF: I am pleased to announce that Linda
Bassi will be the New Stream and Lake Protection Section Chief.

. Linda has a strong working relationship with the Colorado Water Tmst, The
Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited and the DOW, and is engaged in multiple
efforts with those entities to obtain funds for water rights acquisitions, to acquire
water for ISF use, and to develop other approaches to keeping more water in
Colorado's streams.
. Linda has a comprehensive understanding of the CWCB's statutory authority, mles
and policies relating to the ISF Program, and is skilled at updating and revising the
same to meet developing needs, and advocating for such change both with the
public and with legislators.
. Linda has a strong working relationship with the Division of Water Resources,
which is very valuable in the context of requesting administration of ISF water
rights and in investigating the viability of potential water acquisitions.
. Linda has an extensive background in legal protection of ISF water rights and a
strong working relationship with the AG's Office, and is working with the AG's
Office to develop ways to resolve more cases in less time by developing standard
protective terms and conditions and using both CWCB and AG staff time more
effectively.
. Linda has extensive experience in communicating with stakeholders about the ISF
Program and has developed good working relationships with numerous individuals
and entities in the context of ISF and water issues, including federal agencies and
local governmental entities.
. Linda can and will rebuild the somewhat strained relationship between the CWCB
and DOW in the context of ISF appropriations and protection by improving
communications between the two agencies and working more closely with the
DOW.
. Linda will actively paIiicipate in the nonconsumptive needs assessment process
and promote the ISF Program as a vital and effective tool to meet those needs.

Please join me in congratulating Linda.

CLOUD SEEDING PUBLIC HEARINGS: The CWCB hosted three public hearings
regarding applications to renew cloud seeding permits from Denver Water for the Winter Park
Area, Colorado Springs Utilities for the Upper Roaring Fork River, and Gunnison County for the
Gunnison Basin Programs. The public hearings were held on August 16-17,2007.

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Finance. Sn-eam and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning