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<br />AOS Report - CY 2003 <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />December 1, 2003 <br /> <br />to the losses suffered during delivery ofthe Offset Account water, Colorado also claimed credits that <br />exceeded actual stateline deliveries. <br /> <br />TheStates have exchanged letters concerning the accounting of Offset Account water and CY <br />2003 delivery conditions for Kansas Section II. These letters are: from David Pope to Hal Simpson <br />dated August 20th and from Hal Simpson to David Pope dated October 17th. Copies ofthese letters <br />are attached. <br /> <br />Operational & Accounting Concerns <br /> <br />There have been approximately twenty- five (25) operational issues identified by the Operations <br />and Assistant Operations Secretaries. For this report, I will focus on: the water issues matrix, the <br />winter water split, CY 2002 deliveries, pass-through accounting, communications between State <br />staffs, and Kansas Section II deliveries. <br /> <br />Water Issues Matrix: The result of many discussions on operational and accoun~ing concerns is the <br />water issues matrix, or as it was further developed at ARCA's Special Meeting, May 10, 2002, the <br />Joint Work Product of JMR Accounting Issues, This is a dynamic document that is being used as <br />a working tool to further discussions of these operational and accounting concerns. <br /> <br />The Operations Committee at their May 2003 meeting, asked that the issues be placed into the <br />following categories: legal, policy and/or technical. To fulfill this assignment, Kevin Salter met with <br />Colorado Division II staff on June 25th and August 7th, and David Anderson and Kevin Salter met <br />with Colorado Division II staff on October 23rd & 24th and November 20th & 21st. Therchave also <br />been various additional communications between the two offices as a result of these meetings. The <br />issues were categorized during the October meeting. The issues have been renumbered, regrouped <br />and retitled as the attached Categorization ofJMR Accounting Issues, dated October 24,2003. None <br />of the issues were ultimately categorized as purely technical. I have referred to those issues by <br />number in the headings below where appropriate. In the process of categorizing the issues on the <br />Categorization of JMR Accounting Issues, a couple of new issues were identified and included on <br />this matrix (Issues numbers 32, 66 and 67). <br /> <br />Split of winter water (Issues 21 and 22): Kansas continues to have concerns about how the water <br />is split between Compact conservation storage and the Pueblo Winter Water Storage Program <br />(PWWSP). The Operations Secretary should limit credits of PWWSP water to the lessor of the <br />water that is physically available or was historically diverted at the respective headgates. We <br />appreciate the Operations Secretary providing the split ratios in his report for CY 2002 and request <br />that this reporting continue, however this split should be determined in consultation with Kansas. <br /> <br />CY 2002 Delivery (Issues 30 and 31): The Colorado Division II Engineer and the Kansas Water <br />Commissioner agreed that there was a delivery deficit in the Kansas Section II in CY 2002 but could <br />not agree on the amount. The Colorado Division II Engineer, as Operations Secretary, unilaterally <br />determined a delivery deficit (676 AF) and placed that amount in the Transit Loss Account. The <br />delivery deficit as determined by the Kansas Water Commissioner was 4,375 AF and this water <br />should have been replenished to the Kansas Section II Account, not the Transit Loss Account. A <br /> <br />C:\WPOOCS\EXAMPLE,L TR\ARCA\AOS_Reporll\2003-^OSJOpcl'l3)d..wpd <br />printed: D~finbo12, 2003 <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />