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• County: Jefferson
• County: Arapahoe
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Chatfield Reallocation Study: Meeting Minutes 11/30/2006
• Date: 11/30/2006
• Prepared For: Meeting Participants
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Meeting Summary

STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

To:
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Chatfield Reallocation FRlEIS Study Interested Parties
Tom Browning - Chief, Flood Protection Section
Joe Busto, Flood Protection Section
December 28, 2006
Chatfield Reservoir Reallocation Study
Summary of November 30,2006 FRlEIS Study Meeting

Bill Owens
Governor

Russell George
Executive Director

Date:
RE:

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

. Welcome and Introductions
. CWCB Project Update
o Tom Browning provided an overview of project management issues and summarized the current
state of affairs regarding the FRlEIS contract between the CW CB and the Corps of Engineers.
He applauded the group for their efforts and cooperation and explained some of the complexities
of this important reallocation work. He also recapped the joint decision to keep the EIS and
ecosystem restoration on separate tracks.
o Jim Jehn announced that Hock Hocking will relinquish their proposed allocation of 100 AF of
storage space in Chatfield. Hock Hocking will send a letter to the CWCB and to the water users.
The water will have a separate meeting hosted by Rick McLoud to discuss this issue and plan a
course of action. The previous letter agreement between the CWCB and Water Users has
language on how to address this situation.
o The CWCB Director and Deputy Director, along with upper management from the Omaha Corps
have increased their participation in the process due to important issues and challenges facing the
group. This has been beneficial for the study with the end goal of accomplishing tasks to
successfully achieve water supply storage space contracting between the CWCB and the Corps.

. Meeting Summaries

. 11-16-06 FR/EIS and ER Coordination Meeting at CWCB
o Tracy Bouvette stated that recent Downstream/lnstream Water Users meetings are to re engage
dialogue with the users five key areas:
o Connect with the Corps vertical connection within their group and our side as well.
o Talked about funding ofEIS and how the President's budget impacted the Study. In FY 07 the
Energy and Water Bill request was for $400K.
o Working on a continuation resolution, credit for in-kind will allow continue ofFRlEIS.
o Long term tracking and going out of the 50/50 cost share balance. We may exhaust local and state
funding by March or April of 2007.
o FY 08 federal requests and appropriations.

. 11-21-06 FCSA Coordination Meeting in Omaha
o Rod Kuharich, Dan McAuliffe, and Tom Browning met with Corps in Omaha. Tom Browning
provided a memo summarizing these discussions. The focus was to keep the Environmental
Restoration (ER) effort locally funded and separate from the FRlEIS. The Water Users focus is to
keep the ER alive and on parallel tracks.
o The Feasibility Cost Share Agreement (FCSA) that is the contract for the Chatfield Reallocation
Study does not need to be changed to move forward. The Project Management Plan may need to

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