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· Page 20 - I mentioned at the roundtable meeting that NWCCOG had challenged the census data. I understand the state demographer's 2002 numbers (revised summer of 2003), which are in draft but available from NWCCOG, more accurately reflect actual populations in the resort communities. · Page 21- The River District's deal with the Shoshone call was a temporary arrangement related to the 2002 drought, I think the future of the Shoshone call is the concern and not the temporary arrangement worked out by the River District. Another huge concern is the lack of Good Samaritan legislation to enable the hundreds of abandoned mines to be cleaned up. This problem has already created issues for water resource management (i.e. A-Basin's snowmaking expansion) and is only going get worse. · Page 24 - Missing from key diversions is the Homestake project. · Page 25 - Windy Gap was designed to deliver 48,000 acre-feet annually, however it has been unsuccessful, hence the Windy Gap firming project that is just going into NEPA Scoping now. Actual annual diversions are more like 21,000 acre-feet (an example about the need to show future capacity in the major export table on page 5).. · Page 25 - Denver's Moffat system diverts 45,000 to 65,000 acre-feet annually, this may be more informative to list than tunnel capacity and tracks with your descriptions of other projects. It would paint the real picture if percentages of native flow diverted were used, this would keep water availability and impacts in perspective" For example, in Grand County about 60% of the native flow above Windy Gap is diverted annually and existing projects can take this to about 75% as Front Range demand increases. Homestake and FryingPanlArkansas statistics are not included, among others. · Page 28 - You should !mow that the numbers in this UPCO figure have been refined and changed somewhat. We are planning on putting an errata sheet together and I will get this to you when complete. · Figure 3 - this figure would work better if the diversions were linked to values in Table B-1 Overall, the primer is well written and will provide a useful baseline documenta Thanks for the opportunity to comment.