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October 1, 2007 Report from the IBCC Representatives Bill Trampe attended the September IBCC meeting in Longmont. It was hosted by the South Platte Basin. The majority of the meeting was spent discussing the State's proposed Water Availability Study. South Platte gave a presentation about how they were losing their agricultural acres quickly to urban sprawl. This loss would make a large impact on the economy of Colorado, and they were making a good effort to preserve their agricultural base. Marc Catlin was unable to attend the IBCC meeting in September due to scheduling conflicts. The next IBCC meeting would be on October 22, 2007 in Glenwood Springs. Report from the Educational Committee Peter Kasper had nothing to report. Bill Trampe announced that he had cards to pass out that gave information regarding the new website developed by the Department of Natural Resources @ www.ibcc.state.co.us. Dave Kanzer said that he had spoke to Dan Birch from the Yampa Basin Roundtable. He said that they were interested in getting on our agenda to make a presentation to the Gunnison Basin Roundtable, possibly in November. That group meets quarterly, and they would come forward with a subdelegation. Report from the Black Canyon Quantification Committee David Baumgarten said that the first mediation meeting took place in the previous week. There was a pretty rigorous series of meetings set. Many of the members of the Quantification Committee are on the mediation committee. David recommended that the Quantification Committee be made up only of members of group involved in mediation, and although they were not supposed to disclose information outside the mediation, they would be able to take the ideas of the GBRT to the mediation. He also commented that he felt there was a very skilled person mediator in charge of the proceedings. 1. Colorado River Water Availability Study -Phase 1 Scope of Work. Tyler Martineau announced that the IBCC had approved the draft of the Water Availability Study on September 11, 2007. He said that the study was about the Colorado River and its tributaries. Because the Gunnison Basin was a significant tributary to the Colorado River, the GBRT had a great interest in that availability study. The IBCC was looking for comments from the Roundtables in the following few days. Bill Trampe, Marc Catlin, Ken Spann and Tyler had attended the workshop on the scope of work held in Glenwood Springs the previous Monday. He said the Roundtable would need to comment either by letter or through our IBCC representatives. He had drafted a letter by gathering comments from the workshop and from the emails as a starting point to work from. Ken Spann felt that the meeting was well attended. He discussed the climate data and the modeling. Marc Catlin added that it was critical to get the Needs Assessments done. Bill Trampe said that the comments needed to be to Ray Alvarado (CWCB Staff by October 15. 3