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IR MEMORANDUM Date: September 18, 2007 Results of South Platte River Basin Task Force deliberations on the proposed recommendations Passed recommendations 1. Storage: New water storage is a necessary and essential component of resolving the water crisis on the South Platte River. Therefore, the South Platte Task Force recommends the support of the expansion and dredging of existing reservoirs and the construction of new reservoirs including underground storage. Passed 20/1 (Stulp and Harvey absent) 2. SPDSS: The Task Force recommends that continued funding be provided to ensure completion of the SPDSS as soon as possible. Passed 23/0 (for /against) The Task Force recommends that the SPDSS team continue its comprehensive study to evaluate the limits of current science and technology to accurately quantify the amount and timing of well pumping depletions to the river, with appropriate peer review, so as to ensure that policy and law is created on the basis of the best modeling possible. Passed 16/7 (for /against) (opposition was to "to ensure policy and law is created on the basis of) 3. , The Task Force recommends that the Legislature enact legislation that would provide more flexibility for the use of excess augmentation credits, only for replacement of current year depletions caused by past well pumping, with the notice and comment process and expedited review set forth in C.R.S. § 37 -83 -105. This includes but is not limited to looking at the water loan statute (C.R.S. § 37 -83 -105) as an appropriate statute within which provide this flexibility. Passed 17/6 4. The Task Force recognizes that there is increasing pressure being applied to the Water Courts in the State, due to competition for water, recent case law and evolving technology. The Task Force has also received testimony from a number of sources that