13-50 AGUA - Memo

• Applicant: Arkansas Groundwater Users Association
• Grant Type: Severance Tax
• Fiscal Year ‎(i.e. 2008)‎: 2013
• Project Name: Agricultural Emergency Drought Response
• CWCB Section: Finance
• Contract/PO #: 13-50
• Grants - Doc Type: Board Memo

STATE OF COLORADO
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us
TO: Agricultural Emergency Drought Committee Members
Mike King, DNR Executive Director
Jennifer Gimbel, Director of CWCB
Dick Wolf, State Engineer
John Salazar, Commissioner of Agriculture
FROM: Anna Mauss, P.E.
Finance Section
DATE: August 14, 2012
John Hickenlooper
Governor
Mike King
DNR Executive Director
Jennifer L. Gimbel
CWCB Director
SUBJECT: Agricultural Emergency Drought (AED) Grant Request (No. FY13 -2)
The Agricultural Emergency Drought (AED) Grant Program provides up to $1 million annually
for emergency drought - related water augmentation purposes to Colorado's agricultural water
users. The program is open to agricultural organizations located in areas where a disaster
emergency has been proclaimed due to drought. Grant funds are used to offset the added costs of
leasing water during drought years.
All requests are reviewed by the AED grant committee. The committee is comprised of the
Director of the CWCB, the State Engineer, the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Executive
Director of the Department of Natural Resources.
As members of the committee, I am sending you the second AED grant request of the year. I'm
attaching a copy of the request (less the financial statements that were included) for your review.
Request No. 13 -2 is from the Arkansas Groundwater Users Association for $112.584.87. The
dollar amount was supported by a decrease in yield of the Association's water rights and need to
lease an additional 1,784 acre -feet of augmentation water. Included in the cost was additional
engineering fees (totaling approximately I% of the increased cost).
Upon my review, the request appears to comply with the grant program guidelines. I would
recommend approval of $112.584.87 to the Arkansas Groundwater Users Association.
Per the guidelines, applications are accepted any time during the year and the approval process
will be completed within 60 days following the application date.
I understand that coordinating schedules is a challenge, so I am emailing the requests to you with
my recommendations for full approval, partial funding or denial to you as they come in.
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