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• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2008
• Description: WSP Section - CWCB Litigation Account - Lysimeter Studies
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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ATTORNEY GENERAL OF COLORADO
John W. Bothers
Reyue>t fur F:xpeneiiuue tiom I,itigatiun Fund
lur I'rotectiun ol-(~nforadn's :111uc:ttiuns in the :\rkansas Kier
Ih:u' Ruard ~tcnrher;:
!i~ this letter. I am re:yuesting the expenditure of ti ~pp,000 Isom the Boards Litigation Punt
under section ~I-GO-1?Il?.~I(al(III), C'.It.S. That section authorizes the Ruard to expend
money Crom the l.itigatiun Ilmd at the re~luest of the ;\tturney (7enertl li>r the costs to defend
and protect (-olorado-~ allocation; of eater in interstate ;trruns and rie crs. [ bclicce this
expenditure is necessan to adeyuatcly del-end. in negotiations ur litigation. ('olorado-s
allocation, of the r\rkansas Rie er and to prucidc support in implementation of the espectcd
drerec in Kansas ~. (-olortdo.
-[-he Ruard `~a~•c: apprm~.t! in 200=1 to expend ~?JU,000 to "implement tindin`s in the fourth
ltcpurt uf'tipccial ~iastcr Arthur }-ittlc~~ orth ... including tirtttrc compliance issues puc~uant to
the C-Dort-s retained jurisdiction" and "to deti:nd and protect Colorado's allocations of seater in
interstate streams and rn~ers." 1 he extnstructwn and maintenance ot~h~'o Ivsimeters «as one of
the acti~•ities identified by the State; I~m~inecr as crucial to accomplishin;~ this tak. [n ivtarch
20(17, basal on new infitrmation li-om the State l=n~inccr. and acaln at my rcyucst, the Board
authorised an additional St)U,000 expenditurt: to cornplcte construction of the second lysimctcr
at Kochr' lord. ;1[ that umc, tt ~1ati expected that huultn~~ of lysintetcr operation ~~ould he
prop idcd ht the 1'SI):~~ ear sonu otltcr entity xe~ith an interest in crop cx apotranspiralion (l~"1 }
research. l Intitrtunatea~~, despite et~firrts by the State Engineer and Colorado State l inixcrsity,
as of-yet such fintdin`_ has not been fi~und. .