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EXHIBIT B • CASE NO. 7-06CW09 ---- City of Durango DECEMBER 29, 2006 EXPERT WITNESS REPORT FOR D. Randolph Seaholm, Chief, Water Supply Protection Section, Colorado Water Conservation Board Materials Examined • Applicant's Water Court Application. • Applicant's and Objectors' pre- hearing statements and rebuttal statements (including all attachments) submitted to the CWCB. • Applicant's and Objectors' 26(a)(1) and 26(a)(2) Disclosures and all reports submitted with Applicant's and Objectors' C.R.C.P. 26(a)(1) and (2), and 26(e) disclosures. • All of the Applicant's and Objectors' exhibits used at the hearing before the Board. • The Colorado Water Conservation Board's Findings and Recommendation. • The Colorado Water Conservation Board's RICD rules. • The Colorado Water Conservation Board's RICD policies. • Colorado Supreme Court Decision in Colorado Water Conservation Board v. Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District • USGS topographic quadrangle maps and aerial photographs of the lands pertinent to this Application. • Table produced by Rick McLaughlin entitled Physical Dimensions of Whitewater Courses. • Other maps produced by the Applicant's consulting engineers. • All correspondence to /from the Applicant. • Senate Bill 01 -216 and the accompanying legislative history. • Senate Bill 06 -37 and the accompanying legislative history. • Various news articles from the Durango Herald. • News article from the Durango Telegraph • "Colorado Historic Average Annual Stream Flows," diagram prepared by the Colorado Division of Water Resources, Hydrographic Branch, 2000 Revision. • Statement of Opposition, Colorado Water Conservation Board • C.R.C.P. 26(a)(1) Disclosures, Colorado Water Conservation Board and State Engineer • Memorandum to Linda Bassi re Legislative History on SB 216 - 2001, 5/21/02 • "Updating the Hoover Documents, 1978," prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. • Annual Reports of the Upper Colorado River Commission. • "Final Report, Colorado River Compact Water Development Projection," prepared by the Endangered Fish Flow and Colorado River Compact Water Development Workgroup, November 2, 1995. • "Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Reports, 1971 -75, 1976_ -80, 1981 -85, 1986 -90, and 1991 -95, 1996 -2000 and 2001 -2005 provisional" prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. • L: /Section Folders /Section D /ATTACHMENT B Document List Seaholm Reviewed SCM 1/4/07