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finance, stream and lake protection, flood hazard identification and mitigation, weather <br />modification, river restoration, water conservation, drought planning, water information and water <br />supply protection. It is the sole entity which can receive grants of conservation easements of water <br />flows. It also administers grants from the Water Supply Reserve Account called for by SB 179. <br />Compact call. A call by Lower Basin States (California, Arizona and Nevada) that would require <br />Upper Basin States (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico) to limit diversions from the <br />Colorado River and its tributaries. No Compact Call has ever been made. <br />Colorado River Compact - the 1922 agreement among the Colorado Basin States, and ratified by <br />Congress in 1929. It was based upon an assumption that the average annual flow in the Colorado <br />River at Lee Ferry is at least 15 million acre feet (maf), and that the Upper and Lower Basins would <br />each receive 7.5 maf, to be divided among the Basins as they agreed. The 1922 agreement was <br />predicated upon a concern that development in California was outpacing development in every <br />other Western state, and that California would appropriate most Colorado River water unless <br />changes were implemented to recognize the rights of each state to develop a certain amount of <br />water in their own time frame. <br />Conditional water rights. Water rights that are not yet developed, but represent an intent to develop <br />for a specific purpose in the future. They establish a priority date over later granted water rights. <br />Endangered Fish Recovery Program. Four fish, the Colorado pikeminlow, Razorback sucker, <br />Humpback chub, and Bonytail, are listed as endangered species; they reside in the Colorado, <br />Yampa-White, and Green Rivers. <br />Green Mountain Pumpback. 300 cfs would be pumped from Green Mountain Reservoir to Dillon <br />Reservoir with a yield of 53,000 AF. This would permit Denver Water to divert more Dillon <br />Reservoir water through the Roberts Tunnel to the North Fork of the South Platte. A new reservoir <br />is sited at Wolcott to hold 25,000 to 85,000 AF to replace releases that will no longer be made from <br />Green Mountain Reservoir down the Blue River. A pumping plant on the Eagle River with 250 cfs <br />pumping capacity would fill the proposed Wolcott Reservoir. <br />Green River Pumpback. A proposal by Aaron Million to divert water from the Flaming Gorge <br />Reservoir on the Green River and pump it east along Interstate 80 and then south along Interstate 25 <br />to the Front Range. <br />House Bill 1177: Passed in 2005 by the Colorado legislature, this sets up nine roundtables around <br />in the following drainages to discuss how to meet the water demands by year 2030: <br />Western Slope Eastern Slope <br />Colorado Arkansas <br />Yampa-White Rio Grande <br />Gunnison North Platte <br />San Juan South Platte <br />Denver Metro <br />I:AInterbasin Compact ConunitteeTasin Roundtables\Colorado\Minutes\Minutes Aug 2008 CBRT.doc 12 10/.