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• Board Meeting Date: 9/18/2007
• Description: OWCDP Section - Water Efficiency Grant Request from Green Industries of Colorado
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

HB 05-1254 Grant Application to the Colorado Water Conservation Board

Applicant: Green Industries of Colorado (GreenCO)

Project Name: GreenCO Water Conservation Best Management Practice (BMP)
Expansion Project

Goal: Enhance and expand existing GreenCO water conservation BMPs to promote
landscape water conservation in Colorado, both within the green industry and among
water providers and local govemments.

Funds Requested: $72,433'

Matching Funds: $24,100 provided by GreenCO Staff (Brenda O'Brien), GreenCO
Board, Industry Advisory Panel, and Total Translations and Transcultural Services

Contact: Brenda O'Brien, GreenCO, 303.973.4026, [e-mail]
9367 W. Vandeventor Drive, Littleton, CO 80128

Project Background and Overview

GreenCO is an umbrella trade organization representing the common interests of eight
landscape-related trades. GreenCO represents urban agriculture, providing a variety of
goods and services in both wholesale and retail markets statewide. GreenCO is the voice
for more than 1,500 small, medium and large wholesale, retail and agri-business member
companies and their 40,000 employees in Colorado. The industry contributes $2 billion
to Colorado's economy. Each of GreenCO's members has in common an economic
dependence on built landscapes. The mission of GreenCO's water program is:

"To inform, encourage, and instill the practice of sound water use across
Colorado and ensure that built landscapes remain an essential foundation
of Colorado's quality of life, economic health and public image."

In keeping with this mission, GreenCO unveiled its Green Industry Best Management
Practices (BMPs) Manual for the Conservation and Protection of Water Resources in
Colorado in 2002, and launched its sister training program in 2004, along with a minor
update to the manual. These projects were made possible through a grant from the
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) Water Quality
Control Division (under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) with
additional funding support from the Governor's Office of Energy Management and
Conservation, Colorado Water Conservation Board, CDPHE Non-Point Source Program
and CDPHE Pollution Prevention Partnership.

I Seven tasks are included in this grant application. GreenCO is willing to accept funding tor a subset of
these tasks, if necessary.

GreenCO Grant Application

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