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<br />One of the things we're working with through the state legislature is that our agency has some funds that we can <br />loan. We're proposing a loan to the Lower Arkansas Water Management Association which is a well user group <br />below John Martin Reservoir, a low-interest loan to help them purchase existing water rights, dry up some acres, <br />and divert that consumptive use for water augmentation. There's a solution there. We have also reserved funds last <br />year through the legislature for startup loans for other augmentation groups that would like to come to us. We <br />could look for ways to work with you to do that. <br /> <br />Some of the things we are proposing in the legislature this year go beyond loans. We're also proposing to give some <br />grants in terms of small dollars, up to 50,000 dollars for well user augmentation groups to build computer systems <br />and link them with the State Engineer's Office so we can have an integration of the system of data collection so that <br />we're not all reinventing the wheel and to get a better handle on pumping and depletion. We're looking for ways to <br />assist and aid, but at the same time we fully realize that we have to reduce the well pumping in order to meet our <br />obligations. <br /> <br />Arkansas River Basin Water Forum <br /> <br />14 <br /> <br />"A River of Dreams andRealities" <br />