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? PRRIP - ED OFFICE FINAL <br />1 PLATTE RIVER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM <br />2 Water Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes <br />3 USFWS - Lakewood, CO <br />4 July 16, 2008 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />07/16/2008 <br />Attendance <br />Frank Kwapnioski - WAC Chairman, NPPD <br />Jerry Kenny - Executive Director, Headwaters Corp <br />Becky Mitchell - Headwaters Corp <br />Beorn Courtney - Headwaters Corp <br />Blaine Dwyer - Boyle Engineering Corp <br />Cary Steinke, CNPPID <br />Dennis Strauch - Upper Platte Water Users <br />Don Anderson - US Fish & Wildlife Service <br />Duane Hovorka - Environmental Groups/National Wildlife Federation (conf call) <br />Duane Woodward - Downstream Water Users/Central Platte NRD <br />Jennifer Schellpeper - Nebraska DNR <br />Jeff Bandy - Boyle Engineering Corp <br />Jim Hall - State of Colorado <br />Joe Frank - Colorado Water Users/Lower South Platte Water Conservancy Dist. <br />Jon Altenhofen - Colorado Water Users/NCWCD <br />Kent Miller - Downstream Water Users/Twin Platte NRD <br />Mahonri Williams - Bureau of Reclamation <br />Matt Hoobler - Wyoming State Engineer's Office (conf call; WMS Phase II Workshop only) <br />Mike Besson - Wyoming Water Development Commission <br />Mike Drain - CNPPID <br />Ted Kowalski - State of Colorado <br />Welcome and Administrative <br />Introductions; no agenda modifications. <br />LAC-Related Program Updates <br />Jerry Kenny presented information contained in a memorandum to the Governance Committee <br />(GC) entitled "Tract 0811 Evaluation Summary". The owner of a tract of land has requested that <br />the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (Program) purchase and retire irrigation <br />water rights on a 65 acre tract through acquisition of a conservation easement. The Land <br />Advisory Committee (LAC) determined that this tract would not provide land-related habitat <br />value under guidelines of the Land Plan and acreage would not be considered toward the habitat <br />acquisition target. However, the LAC recommends the Water Advisory Committee (WAC) and <br />GC evaluate potential benefits as pertaining to water-related goals and objectives of the Program. <br />This option does not need to go back to the LAC for approval but because it there would be a <br />conservation easement, this still involves a land activity, just not habitat related. It would not <br />count toward the 10,000 acre target acquisition, therefore it would be entirely a water <br />transaction. <br />Page 1 of 5