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• Board Meeting Date: 7/22/2008
• Description: Directors' Reports - CWCB Director
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

addressed in the draft EIS.
Udall, a Democrat who is running for the U.S. Senate, said he wrote the letter as a member of the House
Natural Resources Committee, which has a responsibility in protecting the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project.
He said there is the possibility the committee would give any contract issued for SDS "additional
scrutiny."
Udall's statement got an immediate reaction the next day from Colorado Springs Mayor Lionel Rivera.
In a letter sent to Udall, Reclamation and other members of the Colorado delegation on Thursday, 24
businesses, politicians or organizations told Udall they were "extremely disappointed" with his letter.
Among those who signed it is Harold Miskel, as vice president of the Southeastern Colorado Water
Conservancy District. Miskel retired from and still does minor consulting work for Colorado Springs
Utilities, the primary proponent of the project. He is a former member of the Colorado Water
Conservation Board.
Miskel made it clear in his own follow-up letter to Udall that he was not speaking for the Southeastern
district, but he agreed to support the letter as along-time resident of Colorado Springs. Miskel added he
does, in fact, support SDS.
Others who signed include State Reps. Robert Gardner, Larry Liston and Amy Stevens; State Sen.
Andrew McElhany; Fountain Mayor Jeri Howells; Cap Proal, chairman of Security Water and Sanitation;
several Colorado Springs employees; Tyler Stevens, chairman of the Pikes Peak Area Council of
Governments; and David Csintyan, chief executive officer of the Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce.
Organizations include the Council of Neighbors and Organizations, the Housing and Building Association
of Colorado Springs and the Apartment Association of Southern Colorado.
Reclamation has not yet sifted through all the comments to determine how many issues were raised, since
many of the comments contain more than one issue, Lamb said.
Reclamation plans to address all of the issues in its final EIS, which it expects to complete by the end of
the year. A comment period would follow and a record of decision would be issued in early 2009. Public
contract negotiations would begin during that time.
Permits from other agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers and commissioners in either Pueblo
or Fremont County, would also be needed before SDS could be constructed. (Source: The Pueblo
Chieftan)
COLORADO RIVER BASIN
UPPER COLORADO RIVER RECOVERY PROGRAM (UCRIP) -COORDINATED
RESERVOIR OPERATIONS (CROPS) -Part of the UCRIP and 15-Mile Reach PBO calls for the
voluntary bypass of reservoir inflows during spring runoff to create or maintain peak flows in the 15-Mile
Reach. Dry conditions the last several years have prevented this from happening. This year CROPS was
implemented June 4th and operated June l Ot~'. If any flooding appears eminent operations cease
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