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Draft Minutes <br />Cooperative Agreement Technical Committee Meeting <br />April 24 and 25, 2000 <br />Ramada Inn <br />Sterling, Colorado <br />Agenda and Minutes <br />Paul Tebbel called the meeting to order at 1:15 p.m. on April 24 and welcomed the group. Paul <br />noted slight modifications to the agenda. The draft January minutes were amended to better <br />reflect the discussion related to Baseline. The minutes were accepted as revised by consensus. <br />Introductions were made. <br />Status Reports <br />Governance Committee <br />Dale Strickland updated the Technical Committee (TC) on discussions and decisions resulting <br />from Governance Committee (GC) meetings since January. Dale noted that the major discussion <br />points have been the Water Action Plan development and proposed Program budget. The Water <br />Action Plan has been revised several times and a May 11 conference call is planned to determine <br />how the Plan will be presented to the EIS Team. The states will be holding public meetings in <br />June to discuss the Plan and a final draft Water Action Plan will be presented in July. Regarding <br />the budget, the respective committees have estimated what can be accomplished within the <br />budget ceiling established by the Finance Committee. There has been no decision by the GC on <br />what should be done about the apparent budget shortfalls. Dale also discussed the process that <br />will be followed for implementing monitoring and research at Cottonwood Ranch, outcome of <br />the Land Ownership Entity facilitated workshop, and Third Party Impacts Report. <br />Baseline Document <br />Sharon Whitmore and Mark Butler provided a report in the absence of John Nickum. It was <br />reported that dates not have been set for when the Baseline Document will be completed and <br />available for review. John has reviewed the document and determined that it cannot in its <br />entirety serve as a quantitative baseline for the Program, however, there are areas that can be <br />used (e.g., GIS information). Some of the topics noted by John include the lack of some <br />references and use of qualitative information. John will be providing a report outlining where <br />there is sufficient information for a quantitative baseline and where there is not sufficient <br />information. The Program may determine that more information is needed. This report will be <br />included as a section in the final version. The final Baseline Document will include a revision of <br />the current document, the sections not currently available, and John's report. A FWS working <br />group is determining how all sections should be incorporated. Paul Tebbel asked that the <br />"missing" sections be provided to the TC when they are available (i.e., sediment, water quality, <br />river morphology, and GIS) and that the entire document be provided when John Nickum's <br />report is done. Sharon said that she would coordinate with the FWS in distributing the sections. <br />No dates have been established for this distribution. Dale noted that his office would need to <br />work closely with John as the protocols are being drafted. <br />Mark Butler reported that the FWS is relying on a report being prepared by Bob Simon for the <br />sediment and morphology sections and that report is close to being finalized. If Curt Brown <br />agrees, the report can be distributed to the TC and others. <br />This document is a draft based on one person's notes of the meeting. The official meeting minutes may be different if <br />corrections are made by the committee before approval. <br />Page 1 of 7 <br />