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Arkansas Basin Roundtable Official Recol'dsLocatiol1 c/o Board of \Vater \Vorks of Pueblo Attention: Alan Hamel/Leslie 1VIartin(~z P.O. Box 400 Pueblo CO 81002-(HOO January 17,2008 Mr. Rick Brown Interstate Water Management Development Section Colorado Water Conservation Bomd 1580 Logan Street, Suite 1600 Denver, Colorado 80203 Re: Water Supply Reserve Account 2008 Grant Applications for the City of Las Animas Oem Rick: Under separate cover you should receive two (2) WSRA grant requests for the City of Las Animas. One request asks for $100,000 from the Basin Fund plus $200,000 from the Statewide Fund. The other request is for $200,000 from the Statewide Fund. At the Arkansas Roundtable meeting of January 9,2008, these items were approved by consensus but several concerns were raised by individual roundtable members: 1. First, and perhaps most importantly, the applicant was encouraged to revise the applications with respect to the grant criteria and the SWSI Phase I "gap." My understanding as of the writing of this letter is that the applicant's engineer has been in contact with you to better understand this concern of the roundtable. Our CWCB Board liaison, Mr. Hmold Miskel, and Mr. Wayne Vanderschuere, who participated on the criteria and guidelines committee, both offered to assist in this process. So, while the roundtable felt that these applications had merit, the conformity to the WSRA criteria was raised as a concern. 2. A representative from a downstream county queried the applicant's engineer concerning the impact to water quality resulting from the system upgrades contemplated in the application. While the engineer assured the roundtable member that the discharge met stream standards, documentation of the facts to that member has been requested. 3. Several roundtable members who are associated with municipal water supply systems questioned the tap fee structure ofthe City of Las Animas. After a healthy discussion, including the need to keep tap fees low to stimulate business development in Las Animas, this concern was addressed. I I