PUB00149

• Year: 2006
• Title: Letter to Russell George from Joanne Hill
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Author: Joanne Hill
• Description: Letter to Russell George from Joanne Hill
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

STATE OF COLORADO

JOANNE HILL, CPA
State Auditor

OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR
[phone]
FAX. [phone]

Legislative Services Building
200 East 14th Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80203-2211

February 13, 2006

Russell George, Executive Director
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 718
Denver, CO 80203

Dear Mr. George:

The Colorado Office of the State Auditor is beginning a performance audit related to the assessment,
collection, and auditing of severance taxes in Colorado. The audit will involve several state agencies
including the Department of Revenue and its Mineral Audit Section, the Department of Natural
Resources' Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Division of Minerals and Geology,
and Geological Survey. The authority for this audit is granted under Section 2-3-103(1) of the
Colorado Revised Statutes. The audit will be conducted according to generally accepted standards
for governmental auditing.

We have just begun preliminary audit work and expect the audit to be completed around July 2006.
The audit will be conducted by: Sally Symanski, Deputy State Auditor; Becky Richardson, Managing
Auditor; Jonathan Trull, Team Leader; JeffCandura, Staff Auditor; Anna Weisheit, Staff Auditor.

We will be contacting you soon to schedule an entrance conference. At this meeting, we will answer
any questions you have about the audit process, introduce you to our staff, and discuss any issues of
concern to you. We request that you appoint a liaison to assist us with logistics (e.g. the use of on.,.
site space, etc.), provide information, and resolve problems.

~1:. order to expedite the audit, we would appreciate it if you could provide us with the information
r~ ~ listed on the attached form by Wednesday, March 1, 2006. We can pick up this infomlation at your
~ ' office when it is ready or you can send the information to the Office of the State Auditor, Attention:
'I I Jonathan Trull, 200 E. 14th Ave., 2nd Floor, Denver, CO 80203-2211

Colorado Revised Statutes authorize the State Auditor access to protected and confidential
information but prohibit". . . the publication of information protected by public law." [Section 2-3-
7(2), C.R.S.] We ask that you provide our office with a list of any documents or databases that you
believe may be protected or confidential; including the name, a general description, location, level
of protection (e.g., Confidential, Proprietary, Sensitive Security Information, etc.). Our office has
developed procedures to protect such information and we will provide you with these procedures if
needed.

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