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JO EV ANS is an independent contract lobbyist and consultant specializing in natural resource issues. She has been a registered professional lobbyist at the Colorado General Assembly since 1984. Ms. Evans is a recognized environmental authority on Colorado resource issues. She is a frequent lecturer on environmental matters to varied state groups and serves on numerous environmental advisory councils and ad hoc issues task forces. She was appointed by Governor Romer to three consecutive terms on the Colorado Emergency Preparedness and Community Right to Know Commission, and coordinated the Governor's Wildlife Conference in 1993. She was a consultant to CDOW and CDPOR on public outreach for the proposed collaborative management plan for the Mt. Evans Corridor from 1994-1995. PETER EVANS is the Deputy Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. He is an attorney, and was previously employed by the Colorado Department of Natural Resources as legal counsel to the Executive Director. In consultation with the DNR Executive Director, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Colorado Wildlife Commission and the Colorado Department of Agriculture, Mr. Evans has had the responsibility of coordinating the state's participation in two recovery programs for Colorado River endangered fishes for the past four years. Before joining the DNR team in 1990, he had a private law practice for five years seeking permits for the Denver Water Board to build the proposed Two Forks Reservoir Project. Prior to enrolling in law school in 1982, Mr. Evans worked with NASA as a geochemist with the Viking Mission to the planet Mars; with the USGS on an earthquake experiment in central California; and with the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division. RUSSELL GEORGE is the Republican Colorado State Representative from Rifle and is a partner in the law firm of Stuver & George in Rifle. He has been in private practice since 1976. He served as a Municipal Judge for the City of Rifle from 1983-1988 and has held several board positions with the Colorado Bar Association and the Ninth Judicial District Bar Association. He is a native of Rifle. Representative George is a member of the House Judiciary, Local Government, and Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources committees as well as several other general legislative committees and boards. He introduced three water bills in the 1996 Legislature. The first concerned the use of ground water, and, in connection therewith, exempting wells in the Dakota aquifer from certain permitting requirements and allowing applications for water rights or for changes in water rights to proceed to water court without the prerequisite of applying for a well permit. The second concerned a provision that would establish that augmentation water limited in duration does not preclude approval of plans for augmentation so long as there is replacement of out-of-priority depletions that occur after any groundwater diversions cease. The third concerned instream flows and the procedure for de novo review of in stream flow filings by water court. .JENNllfER GIl\ffiEL has been with the Colorado attorney general's office since 1991, where she worked in the water rights unit representing several agencies including the Division of Water Resources and the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Last fall, she was appointed as the Deputy Attorney General for the Natural Resources Section in the Attorney General's off.ice. Ms. Gimbel will be discussing the legislative foundation of the instream flow law, beginning with the Senate Bill 97 passed by the General Assembly in 1973, which created the in stream flow/naturallake level program and including the latest amendment to the program by Senate Bill 96-64.