North Platte - CSU Identification and Assessment of Wetlands_BRT Approval Letter

• Basin Roundtable: North Platte
• Applicant: Colorado State University
• Description: Identification and Assessment of Important Wetlands in North Platte River Watershed
• Account Source: Basin & Statewide
• Board Meeting Date: 9/17/2008
• Contract/PO #: 150433
• WSRA - Doc Type: Roundtable Approval Documents

Wm. Kent Crowder, Chair FAX [phone]
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?Talden, Colorado 50480
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June 15, 2008
Mr. Todd Doherty
C4LORADC WATER CCNSERVATI4N BaARD
1550 Logan Street, Suite 600
Denver C0 80203
Re: Water Su 1 Reserve Account Grant Application for the Identification and
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Assessment of Important Wetlands in North Platte River Watershed Project
A licant CSU on behalf of CNHP- $182,000.00 Total WSRA Funds Requested -
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$86,000.00 Basin Account Funds and $96,000.04 Statewide Account Funds
Dear Mr. Doherty:
This letter is to advise you that the grant application for ?1VSRA funds from Basin and Statewide
Accounts for the Identification and Assessment of Important Wetlands in North Platte watershed
Project submitted by Colorado State University on behalf of the Colorado Natural Heritage Program
was reviewed b the North Platte Basin Roundtable and evaluated utilizing the North Platte Basin
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Roundtable Water Su l Reserve Account Grant Criteria. The funding request is for $86,040.04
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from Basin Account Funds and $86,000.00 from Statewide Account Funds for a total request of
$182 000.00 in WSRA fundin . This ro' ect was approved by a ma j ority vote of the voting
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members resent at the North Platte Basin Roundtable meeting held on the 17th day of June, 2008.
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Seven votin members of the North Platte Basin Roundtable voted to approve the project and the
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re uested WSRA funding and two voting members voted to not approve the prod ect and the funding
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re uested. Richard F. Wyatt, Municipal Representative, and Mike Allnutt, Agricultural
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Re resentative, voted to not approve the project and the requested funding. Mr. Wyatt stated that he
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would not vote to approve funding for the project because he felt the project could negatively impact
rivate roperty rights because the data and information collected might possibly be used to create
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roblems for rivate landowners and to usurp their property rights. Mr.'?yatt also stated that he did
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not feel CNHP had ode uatel identified and quantified the wetlands that were to be evaluated. Mr.
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Allnutt stated that he would not vote to approve funding for the prod ect because he felt that the
amount of fundin bein re uested was excessive and that he did not feel that the benefits that may
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be realized from the project justified the amount of funds that would be expended to conduct the
study and field investigations.
In addition, it Was the understanding of the voting members of the North Platte Basin Roundtable
that the applicant would further reduce the amount of funding being requested from Basin Account
funds in the e uivalent amount of funding that the applicant nay receive as additional commitments
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from artners ar other entities in an amount of$10,000 or more prior to consideration of this project
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b the CWCB in Se tember, 2008. For example, ?f the applicants received an add?t?onal
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commitment for $10,504 to matching funds prior to consideration of this prod ect by the CWCB, the