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• Board Meeting Date: 11/14/2007
• Description: CF Section - En-bloc Non-Reimbursable Investment Recommendations - Colorado River Augmentation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Non-Reimbursable .Application - CW'CB Construction Fund
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5. Explain why you arc reyucsting a grant, instead of a loan. (the Construction Fund exists primarily to
provide low interest loans for the construction or rehabilitation of raw water projects. Non-
reimbursable investments are approved only when the project or study is of statewide interest and
benefits a wide range of people and organisations, and:'or a large geographical area .
-phis is a study of Statewide interest benefiting al! the citizens of the State that rely in whole
or in part on water diverted t?om the Colorado River. The recent drougitl conditions and
increasing demands have demonstrated that a curtailment of uses of Colorado River water is
possible. The State oCColorado needs to participate and cost share in certain projects that
will au_ment the u~atcr supplies of the Colorado River System in order to help protect
Colorado's cornpact apportionments.
List the names and addresses of any technical or legal consultants retained to represent the applicant or
to conduct investigations for the proposed project or study,
Name Address 3 Phone Nurnbcr
~ List any feasibility study or scope of work that has been completed or is now in prowess for the
proposed project or study. (4ubmit one copy ~+•ith this application):
The scope of this effort is more fully explained in the attached memorandum to the Board.