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<br />Alternative Agricultural Transfers Technical Roundtable Meeting #1 <br />Meeting Summary <br /> <br />Alternative Agriculture Transfers <br />Technical Roundtable Questions <br />September 26, 2005 <br /> <br />Legal/W ater Right Questions <br />1. Are legislative/regulatory changes needed to implement the proposed program(s)? <br /> <br />81 <br /> <br />Blue <br />1 <br /> <br />Red <br />13 <br /> <br />Yellow <br />2 <br /> <br />Green <br />8 <br /> <br />Orange <br />1 <br /> <br />2. How are concerns over the potential for increases in CU and/ or reduction in timing, <br />location, and amount of return flows addressed with other water rights holders within the <br />basin? <br />How do you ensure that lands within a ditch system that are required to be fallowed <br />in anyone year do not irrigate during that year? <br /> <br />Blue <br /> <br />Red <br /> <br />Yellow <br />1 <br /> <br />Green <br />2 <br /> <br />Orange <br /> <br />3. What is the water court process related to program(s) approach and implementation? <br /> <br />G) <br /> <br />3a. <br /> <br />Do the same rules apply if the M&I user is from out of the state? (e.g., can a west <br />slope irrigator fallow land to lease water to Las Vegas or L.A. Metropolitan District?) <br /> <br />3b. What is/ are the legal impediments in statute that require change in law for <br />fallowing? Identify current impediments that exist in legal and regulatory system to <br />Alternative Ag transfers? <br /> <br />Blue <br />2 <br /> <br />Red <br />3 <br /> <br />Yellow <br />1 <br /> <br />Green <br />4 <br /> <br />Orange <br />1 <br /> <br />4. Shouldn't water right owners have the ability to apply for "any beneficial" use if they <br />agree it is for leasing purposes? This wouldn't trigger the speculation clause of Colorado <br />water law. <br /> <br />Blue <br /> <br />Red <br /> <br />Yellow <br /> <br />Green <br /> <br />Orange <br /> <br />CDIVI <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br />S:\SWSI 2\Meetings\Technical Roundtable\TRT Meeting - Specific\Alternative Ag Transfers\summary\Alt Ag Tran TRT #1 Summary final.doc <br />