Water Information Section Work Plan

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Stream and Lake Protection Section Work Plan Key Element /Action Person(s) Responsible Estimated Time for Completion Meet with representatives from local governments, environmental Dan June annually groups, and water users organizations at least quarterly to identify, issues of mutual concern. Meet independently with federal land management officials at the Dan, Ted, Anne, Mark region or state level on a regular basis to discuss the program, identify their future ecological goals and make a written recommendation about how the program could serve to meet their needs in accordance with the state's water rights administration process Initiate a discussion with DOW, DNR and other interested parties about Anne how the board could utilize existing water rights to protect the water dependent natural environment Prepare a reconnaissance type survey of private landowners that might Anne be willing to participate in the program and make a donation. This could be prepared by contacting local government officials, legislators, local and regional land trust or conservation groups, local DOW, State Parks or other DNR officials Identify new sources of funding for stream and lake protection activities Dan, Jeff In cooperation with the DOW, State Parks, or other eligible recipient Dan submit a planning grant to Great Outdoors Colorado that is designed to further the goals of the program Obtain funding for the program from a new source. This could include a Dan Native Species Conservation Trust Fund appropriation or a grant from a non - profit foundation other than GOCO (e.g., new water trust program, Bureau of Reclaimation) Water Information Management - Making information assessable to CWCB's customers regarding stream and lake protection, instream water rights, and lake level protection, as well as general information related to the Section, through website and database updates, developing imaging of documents, etc. Develop ISF DSS Anne, Greg Prepare an easily accessible document or documents that illustrate the Anne, Greg, Jeff Ongoing geographic location of the board's water rights that could be publicly distributed and placed on the Internet (an example would be a county map showing stream locations). (Connected to ISF DSS) Page 5 of 6 5/29/2003