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RGBRT - 2112108 may become more important for a lot of reservoirs," Vogel said. "Everything that was designed for the 100-year flood of the past may become the 30-year flood of the future." If the region gets hotter, water managers would also have to deal with delivering water for a longer growing season. Mike thanked Dr. Vogel expressing appreciation for a systems approach to these considerations, as rivers are systems. 5. Update - San Luis Valley Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) - Bill Mangle, ERO Resources, an environmental consulting firm. The purpose of the HCP is to provide landowners and local jurisdictions with legal protection from "incidental take" of federally- protected birds. HCP encourages voluntary riparian habitat conservation and management, an effort initiated by the Rio Grande Water Conservation District in partnership with SLV counties and the State. At a District Board meeting last month some legal issues were considered regarding impacts on the southwestern willow flycatcher and other Fish and Wildlife species. The RGWCD has worked with the USFWS to develop an HCP approach allowing individual landowners to receive essentially Incidental Take Permit protections. It was noted, that developers were not covered by the HCP. Bill explained a proposed solution: Develop local land use ordinances, similar to weed ordinances, that provide sufficient legal authority without burdening landowners and counties, again the permits would essentially transferred from counties to individual land owners. ERO is working county by county to make this more workable, with the objective of a 50 year plan. ERO's next steps: talk to Valleywide county commissioners; develop draft ordinances for each county, with public comment prior to a completed HCP. Discussion: Some questions regarding possible burden on counties - Steve Vandiver - clarified that it worked similarly to the current weed control ordinances. 6. Non - Consumptive Use Committee - Status Report - Nicole Rowan, CDM. The Nonconsumptive Use Committee (the Wetlands Focus Area Committee) met to discuss recreational uses in the basin, including fishing and waterfowl hunting. They are currently mapping these areas with the help of GIS/GPS. They will be meeting again in March to continue identifying the recreational priorities in the Valley. "We are making good progress. We're also considering flat water recreational uses." For more information: rowann@cdm.com. Consumptive needs - Nicole Rowan also reported they will be working with the Consumptive Use Committee, with some direction provided by the State, to project demands to 2050, identifying and updating projects and processes. They will be updating the SWSI Report within the next several months. Alan Davey's report on water levels has been finalized and this will be very informative. 7. Report of IBCC Representatives - Ray Wright reported that the last meeting was cancelled. Harris Sherman has given them a challenge to do some visioning; to ask if the State is heading in the right direction with water policy, and if not, what changes need to be made. IBCC is hoping to create a "think tank" atmosphere to address this challenge. The next meeting will be March 7th. Ray will have more news after that. 8. Other Business - Members' Terms: Mike reminded us that when the Roundtable was formed there were terms assigned to each of the Members so that future member terms would be staggered. The following Members' three-year terms are now completed, so if these people wish to continue serving on the Roundtable in the future they should state their intention to do so and have their sponsor reappoint them: Jerry Gallegos (Costilla County); nominally Page 2of3