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Timeline for Phase I and II Sep -Nov 2007 March 2008 Oct -Nov 2008 Jan 2009 March 2009 July 2010 Determine Select Phase I Deternne Phase Select Phase II Complete Complete Phase I scope contractor and II scope of work contractor and Phase I Phase II of work begin Phase I begin Phase II Budget Phase I Phase II Phase III Expected cost $1,000,000 $1 to 2,000,000 - Amount appropriated 500,000 - - Under funding 500,000 1 to 2,000,000 - Participant comments are described below. Goals are transparency and confidence in the results. Eric Kuhn: The Water Availability Study won't give us an answer of absolute acre feet available for development, instead we will receive a range of additional water available. If the range is too conservative, Colorado will not develop the frill amount of water available under the state Compacts. If the range is too aggressive, some users will bear all of the risk of curtailment in dry years. All water rights that are junior to the 1922 Colorado River Compact are at risk. The Water Availability Study should accomplish two goals: i. Transparency so users lalow how results were determined. ii. Confidence in the study so that difficult decisions can be made based on the study. b. The Water Availability Study must be done. Jolu1 Porter, Southwest Roundtable. Colorado does not have a choice, as this study must be done. We believe in data and, if properly compiled, users will abide by decisions based on the data. The Water Availability Study should stick to the timetable. Bill Trampe, Gunnson Roundtable: This study should benefit the state as a whole, not just the eastern or western slopes. The Water Availability Study should be done as soon as possible, and the above timetable should be met. d. Gunnison's recreation industry relies on continued flows. Marc Catlin, Gunnison Roundtable: Recreational fishing and hydropower needs must be considered as well. Gunnison has a major recreation industry. SWSI has had problems in Gunnison, and we'd like to rectify this in the Water Availability Study. For instance the North Fork of the Gunnison wasn't adequately represented. e. The Water Availability Studv will help prevent agricultural drvuas now occurring on the East Slope. Carlyle Currier. The eastern slope is facing big problems because they overdeveloped water. Farmland is being dried up because a Water Availability Study wasn't done when land was developed. The East Slope thinks the solution is to take more water from the West Slope -they thii~lc there's still a lot of water available over here. I: AInterbasnl Compact Committee~Basin Roundtables\Colorado~IVlimrtes~2007~Minutes Sep 2007 CBRT.doc 3 10~.