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• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2008
• Description: Director's Report - CWCB Director
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

UPPER COLORADO RIVER RECOVERY PROGRAM (UCRIP) AND SAN JUAN
RIVER RECOVERY PROGRAM (SJRIP) REPORT TO CONGRESS: Public Law 106-392,
signed into law on October 30, 2000, authorizes the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost share funds
for both the UCRIP and SJRIP. In addition to the capital cost-share provision, it also authorized up to
$6.0 million per year (adjusted annually for inflation) of Colorado River Storage Project power re~~enues
(Upper Basin Fund) for the operation and maintenance of the two programs ($4.0 million to the UCRIP
and $2.0 million to the SJRIP). P.L. 106-392 also required the Secretary of Interior to submit a report to
the appropriate Committees of both the United States Senate and House of Representatives by the end of
fiscal year 2008 on the utilization of power re~~enues from the Basin Fund for annual base funding of the
recovery programs. Furthermore, P.L. 106-392 asked the Secretary to make recommendations concerning
the need for continuing annual base funding from power revenues beyond fiscal year 2011 necessary to
achie~~e the goals of these recovery programs. Unless reauthorized by Congress, the utilization of power
re`~enues for base funding of reco`~ety program actions, other than solely for operation and maintenance
of the capital projects and monitoring will cease after 2011. This report describes the progress of the two
programs to date and describes the impacts the loss of base funding will ha`~e on other parts of the two
programs. The report asks that base funding be extended through 2023, the expected date that reco~~ery
for both the razorback sucker and bonytail. Another report to Congress will be required in 2023. The
2008 report makes se`~eral other recommendations concerning the programs and reauthorizing legislation,
including the requirement that the reco~~ery programs modify the respecti~~e Cooperative Agreements
extending them through 2023. This has been achie`~ed at least for the SJRIP.
~STATEWIDE~
CWCB PLEDGES ASSISTANCE TO TWO COMMUNITIES FOR FLOOD CONTROL
PROJECTS: The CWCB Watershed Protection and Flood Mitigation Section has pledged technical and
financial assistance to the communities of Granada and Creede following unsatisfactory flood control
project evaluations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). Each community is partially protected
from flooding by projects originally designed and constructed by the Corps, but later turned over to the
respecti`~e local go~~ernments for routine operation and maintenance. The projects, which are decades old
and ha~~e served the communities eery well thus far, ha~~e been thoroughly inspected by Corps personnel
in the recent past.
The flood control levee in Granada is in need of maintenance attention and should not require expensi~~e
structural repairs.
The flood control channel in Creede is beyond its useful life and should be replaced, according to the
Corps inspection report. As a result of the project e~~aluations, the two communities are now ineligible for
federally sponsored project repairs in the e`~ent of a damaging flood disaster.
CWCB staff will continue to provide assistance as possible and will ser~~e as a liaison between local
officials and the federal go`~ernment in order to pursue car-recti`~e actions.
CWCB STAFF TEACH PREPARATION CLASS AND ADMINISTER CERTIFIED
FLOODPLAIN MANAGER EXAM: The Association of State Floodplain Managers has
established a national program for professional certification of Floodplain managers. The program
recognizes continuing education and professional de~~elopment to enhance the knowledge and
performance of local, state, federal, and pri`~ate-sector Floodplain managers.
It is the state's goal to increase the number of Certified Floodplain Managers in the Colorado by 10
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