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• Functions for the State: <br />- Facilitate statewide solutions but not get into the direct water delivery. <br />- Supporting a large project - State as the moderator. <br />- Regulatory and legislative standpoint. <br />- State has been in a protectionist phase. <br />- Magnitude of demands is in front of us. <br />- Someone needs to become a champion of statewide solutions. <br />- We all have more to lose than finding a tactical statewide solution. <br />• Water Supply Needs: <br />- 100,000 to 200,000 acre-feet additional water delivery. <br />- Transfer of water out of agriculture. <br />- Both of these things will happen out of chaos or careful planning. <br />• 1177 Process: <br />- There is going to be a block of water that would go transbasin. Here is one <br />protection that the West Slope gets. <br />- There is a moving average number here in what you do under shortage and <br />surplus: <br />? Set up policies and apportionment criteria for the Front Range and West <br />Slope. <br />? These policies can be based on level of service. <br />? Agriculture is not at risk. 11.2 million acres in agriculture. <br />• Rechartering the IBCC: Find a common state agenda. <br />• Challenging the Group: Questions for Areas of the State. <br />- Metro Area: What are we really going to do to continue providing water? <br />- South Platte: 1 million people in northern Colorado. Are you going to sanction all <br />other agricultural conversion? <br />- West Slope: Do you think it is important to have a vital economy on Front <br />Range? Do you think the West Slope would have any role in providing water? Do <br />you support the vision? <br />- What are you looking for? <br />- Does anyone agree that there is an interconnectedness to this? <br />• Every Basin: <br />- Cannot deal with this singularly. Give and take. What are you prepared to give <br />up? <br />- Need to look at incremental development vs. regional development. <br />- Need to look at trade-offs between different solutions. <br />- What you do in one basin has an impact on all the other basins. We need a way <br />to look at the state's interconnectedness. <br />• Recharter the IBCC more deliberative role. Similar to Transportation Commission. <br />- Three areas of enhancement to IBCC: <br />? Strategic facilitate issues of intrastate compact. <br />? State needs to come up with financing mechanism for environmental <br />mitigation. <br />9 <br />I:\INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMITTEEWISIONS FOR COLORADO WATER SUPPLY FUTURE\RESPONSES TO VISIONING AND MARCH MEETING\IBCC REPRESENTATIVE COMMENTS.DOC