Quantity/Quality/Wildlife Meeting January 5 1995

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a � y MEMORANDUM To: Colorado Water Quality Control Commission Colorado Water Conservation Board Colorado Wildlife Commission From: Paul Frohardt, WQCC Administrat Peter Evans, CWCB Deputy Director Eddie Kochman, State Aquatic Wildlife Manag Date: November 29, 1994 Regarding: WATER QUANTITY /QUALITY & WILDLIFE CONCEPT PAPER As you may remember, we have been meeting periodically with a group from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Department of Public Health and the Environment (DPHE) to increase communication and better understand the broader perspective of contemporary water issues. Representatives from the DPHE have been Paul Frohardt, David Holm, and Greg Parsons, along with Peter Nichols, Laura Davis, and Marian Law from the Water Quality Control Commission. Representatives from the DNR have been Doug Robotham, Hal Simpson, Perry Olson, Chuck Lile, Eddie Kochman, Peter Evans, Bahman Hatami, Tom Nesler, Dan Merriman, and Will Burt along with David Harrison from the Water Conservation Board. One of the issues of greatest mutual concern is the decline of native aquatic species, and the potential implications for Colorado's future role in managing wildlife resources, water supplies, and protecting water quality. The enclosed "concept paper" has been prepared to assist in the further evaluation of one potential approach to this issue. The Division of Wildlife staff is preparing a report to articulate the basis for this concern, and a draft of that report is also enclosed for your review. We want to begin distributing these drafts for public review and comment as quickly as possible, given the many additional interests and organizations which should be involved in the evaluation and refinement of this concept, and the need to initiate plans for the March 15, 1995 public workshop we have scheduled with the Water Quality Control Commission, Wildlife Commission, and the Water Conservation Board. Therefore, unless a fatal flaw in these drafts is identified, we are planning to finalize the attached transmittal letter for Jim Lochhead and Pat Nolan to sign and mail on December 16, 1994. If you identify any significant concerns in the enclosed drafts, please contact one of us by December 15, 1994. Attachments :r- a,-- -- cc: Jim Lochhead ' - I44k I-Pe Pat Nolan p Doug Robotham 0. � ��, �4 ! � Doug Young �GQ f /'e v-�' wt Q c� e g g y� v Alan Salazar 0� v� Sally Schuff 440 C� fy pk -= /- ` e Glc2J G.7 Ps