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Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods -Grant and Loan Program Project Summary Sheet Applicant: University of Colorado (Regents) Water Activity Name: Inquires into Alternatives to "Buy and Dry" Water Transfers and Local Government Interest' Amount Requested: $170,739 Matching Funds: No Drainage Basin: Arkansas River Water Source: Arkansas River Project Summary: Scope of Work Task 1 Inquiries with Ditch Companies • Prepare explanatory materials, schedule meetings, provide presentations, and engage ditch company officials concerning company and shareholder interests in potential water transfers, and potentially important conditions such as preferences for kinds of programs, estimates of suitable land types for different purposes, and discussion of potential applications of different programs and combinations of interests. NOTE: It is critical in this step that companies will be cautioned against revealing proprietary information until such time as they wish to do, and inquiries will be carefully conditioned to avoid intrusion. It is considered to be valuable for the companies to make internal inquiries which they may be better able to make after discussion of the illustrative examples developed by the Water Transfers Committee. Method • The Committee will develop basic concepts and preferences for questions and approach, and the facilitator (Smith) and advisors (Weber and Wiener) will make the visits with any Committee or Basin Roundtable participants who wish to join (subject to invitation by the ditch company). Reporting of each meeting will first be to the participants for review, correction, or addition, and after approval, to the Committee and in project reporting. • Additional consultations at a general level maybe held with relevant experts and officials such as: o USDA Resources Conservation and Development Area Specialist USDA