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Bruce Whitehead of the Colorado Division of Water Resources asked whether these <br /> numbers are unique to the SJPLC. Mark said every plan has numbers. Most earlier- <br /> generation plans use such numbers as standards. These are guidelines. Mark said he <br /> does not know if other plans have these particular numbers as guidelines. But the 100 <br /> percent guideline was implicit in the Tri-State Agreement. <br /> Bruce asked whether these guidelines would have to be in the Plan if the agencies were <br /> still following the 2005 rule. Dave Gerhardt said under the 2005 rule the agencies were <br /> trying to employ language regarding"ecosystem sustainability"and "species <br /> sustainability". Now,the concepts being addressed are"species diversity" and <br /> "population viability", which are a little different. Population viability in particular is <br /> important. That concept is somewhat stricter than species sustainability. A species as a <br /> whole could be range-wide,but a"population"is discrete and specific. <br /> Mike said once the draft Plan is available there will be more opportunity to make <br /> comments on specific language. <br /> WILD AND SCENIC RIVER UPDATE: <br /> Kay Zillich, a hydrologist with the SJPLC,discussed the Wild and Scenic Rivers <br /> section of the Plan, which will be listed as Appendix D. The environmental impact <br /> statement discusses four different alternatives. Under Alternative B, the agencies' <br /> preferred alternative, there is a list of streams found Preliminarily Suitable. Another <br /> alternative will show no Suitable WSRs and one will show WSRs from past plans. One <br /> alternative will include as Suitable everything that was found Eligible. <br /> Kay presented a power point table showing the original list of Eligible WSR streams <br /> being reduced to a much smaller list of Preliminarily Suitable Streams. Kay showed an <br /> example of language regarding the Dolores River from McPhee Dam to Bedrock, which <br /> is listed as preliminarily Suitable. Mark noted that the language states that the <br /> recommendations of the Dolores River Dialogue may provide alternatives for <br /> management other than WSR designation. Making the area into a National Conservation <br /> Area is one possibility,but only Congress has jurisdiction over such a designation. The <br /> only designation the Agency has any purview over is that of an Area of Critical <br /> Environmental Concern. <br /> Bruce asked whether the Plan contains language stating that streams found Eligible but <br /> not Suitable would no longer be managed as potential WSRs. Mark said that is already <br /> policy so it doesn't matter whether that language is in the Plan,but a sentence could be <br /> added to that effect. <br /> NEXT STEPS: <br /> Mark reiterated that the Agencies will convene the Community Study Groups after the <br /> draft Plan is released, and said that the Water Roundtable members' could be very helpful <br /> with that process of help those not involved in the Roundtable understand the water <br /> 6 <br />