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1 <br />IPRRIP — ED OFFICE DRAFT <br />1 PLATTE RIVER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM <br />2 Water Advisory Committee Meeting Notes <br />3 USFWS — Lakewood, CO <br />4 September 17, 2008 <br />5 10 a.m. — 3: 45 p.m. <br />6 <br />7 Attendance <br />8 Frank Kwapnioski — WAC Chairman, NPPD <br />9 Jerry Kenny — Executive Director, Headwaters Corp <br />to Beorn Courtney — Headwaters Corp <br />11 Bill Taddiken — Rowe Sanctuary /Environmental Groups <br />12 Brian Anderson — Bureau of Reclamation <br />13 Cory Steinke — CNPPID <br />14 Dennis Strauch — Upper Platte Water Users <br />15 Don Anderson — US Fish & Wildlife Service <br />16 Duane Hovorka — Environmental Groups/National Wildlife Federation (conf call) <br />17 Duane Woodward — Downstream Water Users /Central Platte NRD <br />18 Jennifer Schellpeper — Nebraska DNR <br />19 Jim Hall — State of Colorado <br />20 Jon Altenhofen — Colorado Water Users/NCWCD <br />21 Kent Miller — Downstream Water Users /Twin Platte NRD <br />22 Matt Hoobler — Wyoming State Engineer's Office <br />23 Mike Besson — Wyoming Water Development Commission <br />24 Ted Kowalski — State of Colorado <br />10/02/2008 <br />25 <br />26 Welcome and Administrative <br />27 Introductions; no agenda modifications. <br />28 <br />29 WAC Committee List Update <br />30 Committee "members" are to be identified by the GC; the WAC will mirror the GC with respect <br />31 to the voting structure (e.g. the downstream water users who do not have federal storage <br />32 contracts will have 1 representative and will need to decide amongst themselves who will vote <br />33 on particular issues). <br />34 <br />35 The ED Office will update and re- circulate the WAC Committee list. <br />36 <br />37 Water Related Activities Update <br />38 The Executive Director's (ED) Office, Jerry Kenny and Beorn Courtney, provided updates on <br />39 current water related activities. <br />40 <br />41 Water Management Study — Boyle conducted site visits the first week of September. In <br />42 anticipation of the field work, the ED Office assisted with an investigation of land ownership <br />43 associated with the sites of interest, as well as conveyance paths back to the river. This revealed <br />44 that some sites would involve multiple (over a dozen) private land owners. This, in combination <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />