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"- . . . ~ STATE OF COLORADO . Colorado Water Conservation Board Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: (303) 866-3441 FAX, (3031 866.4474 MEMORANDUM Bill Owens Governor GregE. Walcher Executive Director, DNR Peter H. Evans Director, eWeB TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board Members FROM: Randy Seaholm ~ Chief, Interstate Streams Investigations DATE: November 17, 1999 SUBJECT: Agenda Item 21a, November 22-23, 1999 Board Meeting- Federal Issues - Bureau of Reclamation's Strategic Plan 2000-2005 Backe:round The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is in the process of preparing its Strategic Plan for 2000- 2005 in compliance with the Government Performance and Results.Act of 1993. They are using their 1997-2002 Strategic Plan submitted to Congress on September 30, 1997 as the basis from which to create the new plan. The CWCB submitted comments on the 1997-2002 Plan. We believe we were reasonably successful in getting the 1997-2002 plan to an acceptable stage, although it was certainly not everything that we would have desired. Therefore, keeping the mix of goals in the 1997-2002 Plan represents at least an acceptable set of goals. Discussion The 2000-2005 Strategic Plan takes the 15 mission goals from the 1997-2002 Plan and reduces them into 3 very broad mission goals as shown on the attached table. Reclamation then takes these 3 very broad mission goals and matches them to the 5 broad goals of the Department ofInterior. The attached table that overviews the 2000-2005 plan shows the major tasks to be accomplished under each goal. As you can see, the operation and maintenance functions have stayed fairly will in place. However, there is not a major emphasis on water delivery. After reviewing the underlying goals, the draft 2000-2005 Strategic Plan from Reclamation is much more environmentally oriented than the 1997-2002 plan. The 2000-2005 plan does not really focus on, "managing, developing, and protecting water and related resources to meet the needs of current and future generations" or "operating and maintaining facilities safely, reliably and efficiently to protect the public investment" as advertised. The goal for "completing projects under construction" has completely gotten lost and the goal for "increasing water availability" has been reduced to what can be accomplished through water efficiency improvements.