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1697 Cole Boulevard, Suite 200 <br />Golden, Colorado 80401 <br />Tel: (303) 239-5400 <br />Fax: (303) 239-5454 <br />www.brownandcaldwell.com <br />March 31, 2008 <br />Mr. Rick Brown <br />Intrastate Water Management and Development Section <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />1580 Logan Street, Suite 600 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Subject: Letter of Intent for Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods, <br />Arkansas and South Platte Basins Competitive Grant Program <br />Dear Mr. Brown, <br />Brown and Caldwell is pleased to submit this letter of intent to apply for grant funding <br />under the Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods, Arkansas and South Platte <br />River Competitive Grant Program. To date, we have been attempting to organize water <br />owners, intended water users, and other stakeholders into a group that would serve as <br />co-applicants for the grant. We have been successful in developing a project proposal <br />that has generated much interest. In fact, the Colorado Ag Water Alliance, in <br />cooperation with the Ag Council, intends to forward a letter of support for this project <br />after their next meeting on April 8`''. In addition, the Colorado Corn Growers <br />Association has committed to being a co-applicant for a grant and will participate in the <br />matching funds requirement. We are aggressively seeking additional applicants, and we <br />are confident that we will have a group of applicants assembled in the near future. <br />We anticipate that our study will be similar to that described in the attached proposed <br />study approach. The goals of the study will be to establish firm operating protocols and <br />agreements for actually doing alternative transfers for specific water owners and <br />intended water users and to identify engineering, legal, and institutional requirements <br />for a range of alternative transfer methods. The deliverables will be agreements and <br />protocols that can be used by other water owners and intended water users to transfer <br />water and a "handbook" for water managers to use in evaluating alternative methods of <br />water transfer. We anticipate that this project will cost from $250,000 to $500,000 <br />depending on the number of applicants in the group and the on the complexity of the <br />potentially applicable methods of water transfer sought by the applicants. <br />E n v i r o n ~n e n t a l E n g i n e e r s ~' C o n s u l t a n t s <br />