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degree. This determination takes into consideration the availability of water under water rights administered. An hi-Stream Flow right is administered in priority, along with all other water rights on the stream. Maybell Pump Back: A proposal by the Northern Water Conservancy District to pump water from the Yampa River to the Eastern Slope. NCNA. Non consumptive needs assessment conducted pursuant to HB 1177 to determine the amount of water needed to meet enviromnental and recreational uses. Northern: The Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, the agency that contracts for delivery of water from the Colorado Big Thompson Project that diverts water from the Upper Colorado River at collection facilities in Grand County for distribution to the eastern slope. PBO: A Programmatic Biological Opinion for the Recovery of the Endangered Colorado River fish, which requires a number of measures which function as "reasonable and prudent alternatives" for diversions that would otherwise harm endangered fish in the Upper Colorado River. PSOP: The Preferred Storage Option Plan is a proposal to provide additional Arkansas Basin Storage within the Frying Pan-Arkansas Project System to provide for additional uses on the Front Range RICD: Recreation In Channel Diversion. A water right awarded in order to protect recreational boating in the river. Senate Bill 179: Passed in 2006 by the Colorado legislature, this allocates $10 million per year for four years to be allocated among the 9 roundtables to pay for water projects or studies (aka the Water Supply Reserve Account). Shoshone Call: Xcel energy has a call on the Colorado River with a priority dating to 1907 pernutting it to nul 1,250 cfs through the Shoshone power plant turbines. In 2006, Xcel and Denver Water entered into an agreement which permits Denver to reduce the call by 550 cfs at the Shoshone power plant between March 20 and May 20 in years that Denver Water's projected reservoir storage capacity is less than 80%; discussed at the July 2006 CBRT meeting. SWSL CWCB manages the Statewide Water Supply hutiative (SWSI), which was created to study long term water needs in Colorado after the Big Straw hutiative failed in 2003. Water Availability Study: SB 07-122 appropriated $500,000 to study the amount of Colorado water available for current and future needs. The Water Availability Study is designed to identify whether Colorado still has water available under the various Colorado River compacts for development, and what risks are associated with developing it. Phase 1 of the Water Availability Study is expected to be completed by July 2009. Wolcott Pumpback: A plan to build a reservoir on a tributary to the Eagle River near Wolcott. This would store water that could be exchanged back to Dillon Reservoir to enhance Denver Water's yield from the Blue River (Dillon Reservoir/Roberts Tum7e1). I: AInterbasnl Compact Committee~Basin Roundtables\Colorado~Ivlimrtes~2007~Minutes Sep 2007 CBRT.doc 10 10~.