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<br />figures. The preliminary draft of the plan may be ready at the end of <br />September provided there are no fatal flaws that come up. <br />. Question from Russ Kaiser (COE) to Mary: Are you putting a deed on the <br />mitigated property to ensure that there will be no development taking <br />place? Mary answered that there will be some entity that will track and <br />account for the future impacts as well as ensure maintenance is taking <br />place. There will need to be funds held in a trust. <br />. Russ added that he felt going with functional tradeoffs is the right <br />approach. Mary commented that preservation alone is not enough. It <br />does not add anything to just offset the impacts of reallocation and they <br />cannot overvalue preservation alone-there has to be enhancement as <br />well. Pete added there is also the concept of improving land-taking land <br />now that is not ideal and making it better. Eric said he wants to coordinate <br />with involved parties every two weeks or so to move this mitigation <br />process along. Brooke Fox (Chatfield Basin Conservation Network) noted <br />land preservation will get conservation credits-if there is a conservation <br />easement or purchase with a conservation easement there will be credit <br />given. Gary clarified that the amount of credit given will depend on the <br />amount of development pressure-the more development pressures on a <br />particular piece of land, the higher credit. Understanding the threats to <br />land will determine how to assign credits. <br />. Rick stated that this is all pertaining to terrestrial impacts and wanted to <br />know about the aquatic component. Eric said that currently it looks like <br />there will be an improvement in fisheries. Gary added that in the short <br />term there will be benefits due to inundation of new habitat and influx of <br />nutrients. Pete Conovitz (Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW)) said that <br />the biggest concern will be the water-level fluctuations. The most <br />impacted fish will be the Walleye because the fishery at Chatfield is used <br />to harvest Walleye eggs that supply other CDOW fisheries. Eric said that <br />the COE will be looking forward to CDOW comments on that portion of <br />Chapter 4. <br /> <br />3c) Additional Data Needs for PDEIS Completion <br />. Gary will contact Cooperators and/or Agencies on an as-needed basis for <br />additional information needed. <br /> <br />3d) Status of Previous PDEIS Comments <br />. Eric said that most comments from reviewed chapters have been <br />resolved. <br /> <br />3e) FRlEIS Chapter and Appendices <br />. Gary reported that Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6 have all gone through the COE <br />and Cooperators review process and Tetra Tech has resolved any issues <br />and given those chapters back to the COE. <br />. Chapter 4 is currently out to the Cooperators for review. <br /> <br />Tetra Tech <br /> <br />5 <br />