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Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods -Grant Application Form <br />January 2©©8 <br />willing to contract for. For example, at least some irrigators would be willing to enter <br />into so-called °evergreen" leases under the right terms and conditions, including terms <br />concerning lease price escalations that would keep pace with the market value of their <br />water rights. <br />Water leasing preserves ownership of the water rights in the hands of the irrigators, <br />who will continue to use such water fior agricultural production at least 70 percent of the <br />time. Continued agricultural production will also sustain local communities and <br />economies. This is evident simply by driving through Sugar City, a community which <br />served land dried up under the Colorado Canal, and Lamar, another community which <br />has not been impacted to any great extent by the transfer of irrigation water rights to <br />M&I use. <br />i) The quantity of water produced by the proposed projectlprogram. Preference will be given to <br />programs that can address larger water supply needs. <br />HDR and Honey Creek Resources ran a number of scenarios as part of the detailed <br />engineering study of water leasing. They concluded that the following amounts of water <br />would be available for lease under very conservative assumptions: <br />Wet Year 42,215 ac-ft <br />Average Year 28,629 <br />Dry Year 14,020 <br />These amounts might provide all of the water that SWSI projected would be provided <br />by irrigated agriculture in the Lower Arkansas River basin for M&I use by 2030. For <br />fiurther information, see response to ~` 2 above. <br />6. Please provide the proposed scope of work. On the following page there is an example format for <br />the Scope of Work. You can use the example format or your own fnrrr-at, provided that comparable <br />information is included. <br />The scope of work should outline by task how the proposed prograin/projectwdl be accomplished. It is <br />important that the scope of work detail the specific steps, activities/procedures that will be followed to <br />accomplish each individual task and the overall programlproject and the specific products/deliverables <br />that will be accomplished. <br />The scope of work must include but not be limited to: task description, key personnel, budget, schedule <br />and deliverables and the final report/project documentation upon completion of the water activity. <br />L SCOPE OF WORK -TASKS <br />Task A -Economics <br />HDR's Final Engineering and Economic Feasibility Study of the rotational fallowing concept <br />identified athree-tiered marketing approach corresponding to the reliability of water to be <br />20 <br />