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water upp?y ?e?erv? Account - grant ApplictYan Farm <br />?"?rm Revised ll?ay ???7 <br />. Describe haw the water activity meats these Threshold criteria. <br />l . The water activity meets the eligibility requireman#s outlined in Part 2 of the Criteria and <br />Guidelines. <br />This proposal would fund the creation of a model as part of the `hared vision Planning' process for the <br />Halligan-Seaman dater Management Proj ect ?HwMP}. The HwMP i one of the Identified Pro j ects and <br />Processes as developed by the statewide water supply initiative Phase l . This SVP activity meets the following <br />three threshold criteria: 1} a competitive grant for environmental compliance and feasibility studies; ?}technical <br />assistance for permitting and environmental compliance; and 3}studies or analysis of consumptive and non- <br />consumptivewater needs. <br />The cities ofFort Collins and Greeley, North Poudre Irrigation Company, and the Soldier canyon Filter Plant <br />?HSwNIP applicants} have proposed to the Army corps of P?ngineers ???} a water project that if permitted <br />would expand both Halligan and Seaman Reservoirs and influence flows on the North Fork and m?ainstem of the <br />Cache la Poudre River, The CCU is conducting a NEPA analysis of the applicants' preferred project under a <br />Section 4?4 permitting regulations. The applicants recognise that flows have been altered and that there exists <br />an opportunity to improve flows within operational limitations and water rights; in other words, to improve the <br />existing natural river environment while developing new consumptive water supplies. Therefore, in order to <br />achieve a successfully permitted water project that meets bath the applicants' projected future water demand and <br />also achieves water for agricultural and environmental interests, a diverse community of stakeholders have <br />formed to collaborate in a hared'?isian Planning ?S?P} process that will run in parallel to NP?PA, Results of <br />the ?'?P process will be incorporated into the applicants preferred project. The first critical part of SAP involves <br />technical experts developing an agreed upon ?P model that includes operational, hydrologic, and water right <br />components as well as flow recommendations and criteria for ecological and biological components. The <br />community of stakeholders would then assess reservoir operations alternatives via the SAP model. <br />This is the first tine in the United states that VP has been attempted during the permitting phase of a water <br />supply project. It is also the first tlrne SAP has been utilized In a western water project. Hence the SAP process <br />and ?P model will serve as a proving ground for creating a more effective permitting process far all water <br />pra?ects An the k?¦4?ted t?t??r <br />2. The water activity ?s cans1stent with Section 37???? 10? olarada Revised statutes. The <br />requirerrientsllanguage from the statute is provided in Part ? of the Criteria and Guidelines. <br />The first components of the '?? model are the existing and proposed water rights and associated operations ?f <br />the water systems of the project applicants. Hence development of the SVP model will be founded upon and will <br />ensure the protection and development of all existing water rights, Xn addition, the ?P model and process will <br />assess a variety afalternatives by running different operational and flow scenarios through the S?TP model. The <br />alternatives assessment will allow the HwMP applicants to first determine how to maximize existing water <br />rights and in addition to realize existing water rights that they are currently unable to use for consumptive <br />purposes, <br />4