Combined Operations Secretary and Offset Accounting Report (Summary and Tables) Compact Year 2008

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Section 4 contains information provided by and included at the request of the Assistant Operations Secretary that documents operations related to efforts to bypass inflows as required by Section II C (1) of the 1980 Operating Plan and other pass through operations. The ' Operations Secretary makes no representations regarding the accuracy or reliability of this data. L7, Summary of Activities Coordinated through Operations Committee The Operations Committee (Committee) met on one occasion during the 2008 Compact Year. This meeting was held in conjunction with the December 11, 2007 meeting of the Compact Administration. Although the Committee indicated in the December 10, 2007 Action Item summary that it would hold a meeting in April (2008), this did not occur. The Committee also recommended continued dialog between the Operations Secretary and the Assistant Operations Secretary regarding the procedure used to apportion the inflow to John Martin during the winter storage season and directed that separate reports be provided to the Committee. The Operations Secretary and the Assistant Operations Secretary, together with their staff members, met on two specific occasions in an effort to maintain open lines of communication related to operations pertaining to the current Compact Year and in keeping with recommendations approved by the Operations Committee. The first of these occurred on May 5, 2008 in Lamar, Colorado. The second occurred by means of teleconference on November 18, 2008. Additionally there were numerous interactions throughout the year which included advisories, inquiries and explanations on various topics. As suggested by the Operations Committee, there were continued discussions related to procedures used to apportion inflow to John Martin (a.k.a., the "Winter Storage Split" issue. 1* f6t °n This primarily occurred during the May 5, 2008 meeting referenced above. A record of this p WfL%* meeting was made and distributed to the Operations Committee on May 23, 2008. A revised version of this summary, approved by both the Operations Secretary and the Assistant Operations Secretary, is included in Section 1 of this report. Because of personnel vacancies and other priorities, it was necessary to postpone work on many of the objectives identified as necessary to help resolve this and other issues discussed at this meeting. � g `y JQMs %a-, Summary of Activities Coordinated through Special Engineering Committee Although no meetings of the Special Engineering Committee were held during Compact Year 2008, the Committee was able to reach agreement on a recommendation to potentially resolve several issues referred by the Compact Administration. Recommendation G, approved May 1, 2008 provides for conditioned and qualified approval of Reports of the Operations Secretary for Compact Years 1994 -2006 inclusive; provides for restitution for transit losses on releases of water from the Kansas Section II account that resulted in past deficits during Compact Years 1996 -2006 (inclusive); and recommends that no restitution be made for water lost to evaporation during times when John Martin Reservoir was spilled, prior to 2006.