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January 7, 2008 Report from the Black Canyon Quantification Committee John McClow reported that the last meeting on the Black Canyon litigation was held on December 18-19, 2007. John stated that progress was being made. The next meeting would be this Wednesday in Denver. John was expecting that they would have something ready for the Judge by January 18, 2008. 1. CWCB Construction Bill Chris Treese from the Colorado River Water Conservation District spoke about proposed legislation from the Colorado water Conservation Board (CWCB). Chris distributed a summary of the pending legislation for information purposes. Not related to the CWCB topic, Bill Trampe discussed his concern regarding water issues and the Supreme Court. Bill spoke about how various small water users were having problems, and when taking them to the Supreme Court, the process could take so long that these water users would lose their crops before any problems were resolved. The Supreme Court was looking at this process to see if there would be any way to speed it up. Bill stated that he was a member of one of the subcommittees that was working to put together information on problems that people have had, and they would be giving their information to a larger committee in February. In March or April they planned to have a public hearing. He asked the Roundtable members to give this information to their respective water conservancy districts, and make those districts aware of the process that was taking place. Anyone with a concern or comment was to contact Bill. Marc Catlin mentioned that this issue had been of great concern to him, and he commended Bill Trampe for taking on this issue. 2. Statewide Non-Consumptive Needs Assessment Tyler Martineau told the group that Nicole Rowan and Todd Dougherty were not able to make this meeting due to the weather. Nicole was going to bring a copy of what she had done with the non- consumptiveuse list. Per Tyler's memo in December, all preliminary needs assessment data was recalled as requested by the GBRT. What was sent by email was raw data put together by the Needs Assessment Committee. Tyler stated that the Needs Assessment Committee reached consensus on the identification of all non-consumptive attributes. They decided that it was appropriate to identify where all uses occurred, and that the information was already publicly available. The Roundtable members discussed whether the attributes that were located on private lands were usable in that assessment, and whether identifying them would be an asset or a liability. The possibility of mapping the attributes with a map overlay showing the private lands was discussed as a possibility. After a long discussion about the pros and cons of non-consumptive attribute identification in the Gunnison Basin, it was decided to continue the discussion at the next Roundtable meeting when Steve Glazer would be giving his presentation on the matter. 3