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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form Form Revised May 2007 Arkansas Basin Roundtable Water Transfers Committee Members: Lawrence Sena, Mayor of Las Animas, Representing Bent County Municipalities Wayne Vanderschuere, Colorado Springs Utilities, Representing EI Paso County Municipalities Virgil Cochran, Prowers County Environmental Compliance Officer, At-Large Member Frank Wallace, Ex-Bent County Commissioner, Representing Bent County Mark Pifher, City of Aurora Water Utilities, At-Large Member Dan Henrichs, Superintendent, Rocky Ford Highiine Canal, At-Large Member Reeves Brown, Beulah rancher, At-Large Member Jim Broderick, Southeast Colorado Water Conservancy District Terry Scanga, Upper Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District Dennis Smith, Audio Visual Producer, Representing Lake County Rick Kidd, Engineer, Representing Pueblo Conservancy District Initial Advisors (to be supplemented by others on an "as needed" basis): John Wiener, University of Colorado research associate Ken Weber, Anthropology Consultant Tom Simpson, City of Aurora Water Utilities Dave Stewart, Stewart Environmental, Inc. Doug Kemper, Colorado Water Congress James Pritchett, CSU Professor Christy Culp, Colorado Department of Local Affairs, Rural Economic Development Potential Advisors who have been contacted and expressed willingness to assist: (other potential advisors will be identified ami contacted as well) Ken Knox, State Engineer's Office Craig Harrison, Water broker Dale Mauch, Farmer Tim Gates, CSU Professor Dawn Thilmany and Walt Armbruster, Farm Foundation Susan Kirkpatrick, DOLA director John Wilkens-Wells, CSU sociologist Jeff Ballweber--CSU grants specialist Reagan Waskom--Colorado Water Resources Research Institute Lee Merkel~- Colorado Department of Local Affairs, Rural Economic Development Paula Butcher-SE Colorado E3 Partnership and Next Generation Agriculture Cluster Group Purpose Develop a portfolio of prototypes to address issues and mutual benefits associated with transfers of water from agriculture Water Transfers Committee members represent a wide swath of Arkansas Basin Roundtable agricultural and urban interests. Following approximately nine months of meetings, (see Summary to Date of the Work of the Arkansas Basin's Water Transfers Committee) the group considered the concept of a "think tank" which would be a smaller group of committee members who would focus work on the specific issues the committee had been able to narrow in on. They tentatively named this the Solutions Work Group. Following their first work session, 5