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• Board Meeting Date: 5/21/2008
• Description: IWMD Section - Presentation of Agricultural Water Conservation Paper
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

R 1'HE FARMERS RESERVOIR AND lRR{6AT{ON COMPANY
8D South 27th Avenue • 8rightorl, Colorado 80601
~.i Telephone: [phone] • FAX.: [phone];
Colorado water Consen+atian Board
i3 23 SherYrran Streeei, Room 721
Denver, C® 80203
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May 19, 2008
Dear Board Members:
The Farmers R,raers~odr and 2mi~iOn Company (FRICOj raceanfly submitted a gnint appiic~lioa far the
AYC AgQCa~l ~e'll QteR PLO~aIU. The CRICK SIBff, alfi dascxt~red in the Staff Citalnation
IDCmO, has riot Ided appovel of thus ,~ regc>est since the srmpe (~ not ~ dRSCS1fbC the
process m wbic3- the appiicao4s rni11 idemtidy alLeamative ag itsmsE+er methpds and how these wSl be
i~ the slurred water bank aaa>czpt. IY was FRICO's iamot in Task 1 of the proposed scope of
work m incorpoaabe arrive alai tnmsfti methods mad iucorpaeate these methods into the:
S~OgQGOd tasks. Qiveathat eIl other aspnds of the application meet flye critaria and goie>aelines, we
rtlly regoest the oppor~ to provide additional devil m CWt~ staff in snppori of oia groat
apglicsibon for oioa at the Daly board meeting if staff o~aus.
Time is ~ the e~seuce; faa' FItICO m consideration of this g<am~ it is our iatcut to be able in banre
m'nI disaamaions with oar a,al B>~Ideis at the oouc~asion of this imigatioa sermon, with a
deed paesaa~on and diseussran of the study and review ~' a~tiv~e ag~titutbeQal transtier mecums
at our aamml sbarebuldess meeting in November. Delay of approval of arnns~+atim of this grant
applicaetioa ~ Nance and the emsaing time began Ho~c+d and oamd~act approval would r.~C6tvety
mean that ii will not be uuril flye faIl of 2009 before meatrimgfn~i dean anti e~cpkuatian of ehemsdtive ag
trier o~oepts can be fuIIy Seabed art wifli FRICO ag sbaDeboldeax. in the ~neatntime, Here v~l be
wig ffie PRIOO system fear agacolmcal to lransfsrs.
Tbenkyou~ yoarofthis regnest.
SAY.
0 ` 1(~VA~,vrJC ~ ~O~'ty,~ m,
Manuel Moato}rn
General Nonuser
C~ Todd Doherty
3 Gimbel

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