PRRIP Water Advisory Committee Meeting Notes

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' PRRIP — ED OFFICE FINAL 07/16/2008 M1 PLATTE RIVER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM 2 Water Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 3 USFWS — Lakewood, CO '4 July 16, 2008 5 6 Attendance 7 Frank Kwapnioski — WAC Chairman, NPPD 8 Jerry Kenny — Executive Director, Headwaters Corp 9 Becky Mitchell — Headwaters Corp ' 10 Beorn Courtney — Headwaters Corp 11 Blaine Dwyer — Boyle Engineering Corp 12 Cory Steinke, CNPPID t13 Dennis Strauch — Upper Platte Water Users 14 Don Anderson — US Fish & Wildlife Service 15 Duane Hovorka — Environmental Groups/National Wildlife Federation (conf call) ' 16 Duane Woodward — Downstream Water Users /Central Platte NRD 17 Jennifer Schellpeper — Nebraska DNR ' 18 19 Jeff Bandy — Boyle Engineering Corp Jim Hall — State of Colorado 20 Joe Frank — Colorado Water Users /Lower South Platte Water Conservancy Dist. '21 22 Jon Altenhofen — Colorado Water Users/NCWCD Kent Miller — Downstream Water Users /Twin Platte NRD 23 Mahonri Williams — Bureau of Reclamation '24 25 Matt Hoobler — Wyoming State Engineer's Office (conf call; WMS Phase II Workshop only) Mike Besson — Wyoming Water Development Commission 26 Mike Drain — CNPPID 27 Ted Kowalski — State of Colorado 28 29 Welcome and Administrative 30 Introductions; no agenda modifications. 31 32 LAC - Related Program Updates Jerry Kenny presented information contained in a memorandum to the Governance Committee '33 34 (GC) entitled "Tract 0811 Evaluation Summary ". The owner of a tract of land has requested that 35 the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (Program) purchase and retire irrigation water rights on a 65 acre tract through acquisition of a conservation easement. The Land '36 37 Advisory Committee (LAC) determined that this tract would not provide land - related habitat 38 value under guidelines of the Land Plan and acreage would not be considered toward the habitat acquisition target. However, the LAC recommends the Water Advisory Committee (WAC) and '39 40 GC evaluate potential benefits as pertaining to water - related goals and objectives of the Program. 41 This option does not need to go back to the LAC for approval but because it there would be a conservation easement, this still involves a land activity, just not habitat related. It would not '42 43 count toward the 10,000 acre target acquisition, therefore it would be entirely a water 44 transaction. Pagel of 5