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Water Supply Reserve Account -Grant Application Form Form Revised May 2007 potential combined districts to best serve their customers and plan for the future. This work would be perforemd by Bennett Raley, Esq. of the law firm Trout Raley Montano Witwer and Freeman. Recommendations would be prepared as an attorney client priviledged document to the Montezuma Valley Irrigation District. Because the project is being funded by CWCB funds, any requiNed disclosuNes would be done through the Attorney Generals office to protect sensitive information. There are no known TABOR issues associated with this activity. 5. Please summarize the proposed scope of work. Please refer to Part 2 of the Criteria and Guidance document for detailed requirements. On the following page there is an example format for the Scope of Work. You can use the example format or your own format, provided that comparable information is included. The scope of work should outline by task how the water activity will be accomplished. It is important that the scope of work detail the specific steps, activities/procedures that will be followed to accomplish the water activity and the specific products/deliverables that will be accomplished. The scope of work should include but not be limited to: task description, key personnel, budget, schedule and deliverables and the final report/project documentation upon completion of the water activity. I. Task 1 Description of work: Water Rights /Planning Feasibility Study of Summit Irrigation Company Methodology: An engineering review of the water rights associated with the Summit Irrigation Company will be performed. Historic diversion records and irrigable acreage will be documented and used to determine system wide efficiency. Trends will be searched for to determine if there are changing patterns of use for the history of the project that point to specific reasons. The causes of changes may be from water users adjusting to gradual aging of infrastructure or possibly just adapting to better management practices, changes in the area or changes to increase certainty in delivery. Interviews will be done with shareholders in both systems to identify concerns that may need additional study. We will specifically target a balanced set of interviews between proponents and opponents that are presently known. We will also make a concerted attempt to talk with shareholders that represent significant agriculture in the basin from both systems. Results may identify potential system efficiencies that may be realized, potential for injury to MVIC or other water rights in the basin and expected benefits or liabilities that may accrue from a merger or acquisition. It may also identify potential for changes in the decrees that could be used to improve systems operations. This portion of the study will be used to identify the basic framework of how a merger would benefit the two irrigation companies. Reliable and accurate information developed from the water users in both systems will form a planning foundation for the remaining two tasks. Major Deliverables: An engineering report will be produced that summarizes the findings outlined in the methodology. This report will serve as planning documents for future work should it proceed. It will identify from a technical viewpoint opportunity for efficiency that may exist with the two systems working together. The results will give a GO-NO GO decision point on whether or not to continue pursuing the concept of merger or acquisition. The project team will include Mike Applegate, PE; Dick Stenzel, PE; Richard Raines, PH; Michael Peel, EIT. 6