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North Platte Basin Roundtable 06.17.2008 John Rich: Yes Tom Hackleman: Yes Jim Baller: Yes Ty Wattenberg: Yes Hal Hagen: Yes Rick Wyatt: Yes Barbara Vasquez: Yes Kent Crowder: Yes Mike Allnutt: Yes Dirk Ramsey: Absent Sandra Knox: Absent Dave Meyring: Absent Mike Hoi~tiolz: Absent Application approved unanimously by voting members present. Either Brook Lee or Rob Hubbard should be present at the CWCB meeting in September. It is their responsibility to get the signed application to the CWCB, the deadline is July 1811' Water Supply Reserve Account Application; Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP), re-subNaittal: Discussion: Barbara V: the budget has been corrected; the overhead is down to 20%. The $10,000 donation has drawn the basin funds down to $86,000, state fields to $96,000. Rick W: is there a cost per acre? Barbara V: it will depend on the properties. It will be 1-2 days per property. It will be a mix of public and private property, targeting the '09 field season. Carl T: when you receive the data, how do you envision the non-consumptive committee using the data to the roundtable's benefit for non-consumptive needs? Barbara V: introduce the new data for the wetland plant conunuiuties, multiple plants within the wetland community that could be on the attribute maps. We should be concerned with the overall health of the wetlands. Our wetlands, I expect, will get good marks as compared to the state as a whole, by being able to compare to other watersheds. Carl T: the attribute will be the health of the wetland? Or the individual plant? Barbara V: it could be both Carl T: it's confusing to me as how this is going to help the basin requirements with the non-consumptive needs. Hal H: if you have healthy wetlands from return flows from consumptive irrigation, it could be a positive for consumptive. Rick W: who is the North Park Wetlands Focus Committee?