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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form Fonn Revised May 2007 2. Describe how the water activity meets these Threshold Criteria. 1. The water activity meets the eligibility requirements outlined in Part 2 of the Criteria and Guidelines. The eligibility as outlined in Part 2 of the Criteria and Guidelines provides three stated mandates. Those mandates include: 1. The water activity must be approved by a roundtable pursuant to Article 75 of Title 37, C.R.S. and the approving roundtable shall be the roundtable for the basin in which the proposed water diversion or nonstructural activity would occur 2. The water activity meet the eligibility categories described below including (as noted above under question 1 of this section) 3. The water activity must be approved by the CWCB utilizing the criteria and guidelines jointly developed by the IBCC and CWCB. As required under item number 1, the proposed project has been presented to both the Needs Assessment Subcommittee and to the Arkansas Basin Roundtable. Both committees approved the project unanimously. No comments were received on the project by either committee. The proposed project focuses on the construction of structural facilities. This is a specific criteria contained within the eligible water activities. Therefore, this requirement is being met. The last eligibility item deals specifically within the approval of the CWCB. As discussed within this application, we believe this project meets the objectives and requirements contain within eligibility requirements. The project addresses reducing the overall gap for the Arkansas River Basin and eliminating some of the city's raw sewage infiltration into the underlying ground water thereby providing a greater amount of useable water supply for both consumptive and nonconsumptive purposes in the basin. 2. The water activity is consistent with Section 37-75-102 Colorado Revised Statutes. The requirements/language from the statute is provided in Part 3 of the Criteria and Guidelines. The city's project will aid in eliminating the amount of ground water the city is taking, not deliberately, but rather as a result of a porous sanitary sewer collection system. By eliminating infiltration into the city's sanitary sewer system, such will eliminate the amount of water evaporated through the city's wastewater treatment plant thereby eliminating the taking of water the city is not entitled to. This will effectively produce approximately 2 acre-feet of water annually within the Arkansas River Basin, not including subsequent evaporative losses as the water is discharged in the form of surface flow from the wastewater treatment facility. Therefore, the city's project is consistent with Section 37-75-102 C.R.S. 3. The water activity underwent an evaluation and approval process and was approved by the Basin Roundtable (BRT) and the application includes a description of the results of the BRTs evaluation and approval of the activity. At a minimum, the description must include the level of agreement reached by the roundtable, including any minority opinion(s) if there was not general agreement for the activity. The description must also include reasons why general agreement was not reached (if it was not), including who opposed the activity and why they opposed it. Note- If this information is included in the letter from the roundtable chair simply reference that letter. Please review attached letter from the Arkansas River Basin Roundtable chair. F:\WPDATA\Las Animas\Wastwater\06 SSCoI\Financial\Roundtable\06-07 Application (may 07).doc 5