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• Board Meeting Date: 11/18/2007
• Description: IBCC Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Melinda Kassen: Once you identify the need, it can be met using the state's existing in-
stream flow program, an operating agreement, or other mechanisms. May need to
quantify only those that are prioritized, where needs are not being met through other
mechanisms. I don't think there will be many quantifications needed.
Jenny Russell: Does the common technical platform determine the quantity of water
needed to protect a specific use without regard to where that reach is?
Eric Hecox: All of the methodologies require site specific information. The
methodologies, which would be different for fish or rafting, etc., are what would be
consistent.
Rita Crumpton: Just because we are looking at this doesn't mean we'll find the answers,
or be able to guarantee certain uses on certain stretches of the river. The State should be
overseeing what the Roundtables are coming up with.
Jim Isgar•: If you are trying to develop water and you use the common technical platform,
does that limit you from exploring what would happen if you use other methodologies?
Dan McAul~e: No, land owners and regulators still have responsibility to look at options
in a regulatory process.
Eric Wilkinson: Thin line between common technical platform and guidelines and
criteria. It would behoove us to come up with criteria we're going to use perhaps a
minimum amount necessary to achieve that beneficial use - in the common technical
platform.
Melinda Kassen: Having the information about a minimum environmental flow doesn't
create a mandate to do something any more than lost opportunities for irrigation create a
mandate to find water for them. The fact that we could do something doesn't mean it will
happen. Information gives us the opportunity to have a discussion based on data.
Chips Barry: For the purposes of evaluating future domestic water need, we ought to
agree on a number for indoor household use. I think that comes under the heading of
common technical platform.
Doug Scott: There is no common economic platform. Until we start establishing where
water will come from and willingness to pay, we can't understand the gap.
Rick Br°own: Important to talk about what kind of sideboards we want to put on looking at
consumptive and non-consumptive needs. All water users want regulatory certainty for
their current projects, and some way to plan for the future and understand tradeoffs
between consumptive and non-consumptive uses.
Harris Sherman: It would be helpful to have periodic reports from each work group, and
frank discussion. Also update the CWCB.
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