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• Board Meeting Date: 9/22/2003
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: 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

MEMORANDUM

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
Rod Kuharich
Dan McAuliffe
September 12 2003

TO:
FROM:

DATE:

RE:

Agenda Item #4c -- Director's Report

o

Interim Committee to Study State Government
Expenditures
Stream & Lake Protection Program Celebrates
30th Anniversary

Federal and Interstate Issues (Page 3)

1 FEMA Conference
V' 0 Weather Modification Grant Application
o Colorado Environmental Education Projects Get
EP A Funds
.0 EPA Establishes Water Security Division . /"
o EPA Trying to Raise Awareness On Water V
/ Efficiency
v" Gov. Mike Leavitt Nominated To Be New EP A
Administrator
v{ New Federal ISF Requirements?
o GAO Water Supply Report
)-0 Drought Legislation
v 0 Western States Water Council Meeting

Statewide Issues (Page 6)

o Tamarisk Control and Eradication Update
o Supreme Court Cites Groundwater Atlas as
Authoritative Source
o Instream Flow Monitoring and Protection
o Colorado Watershed Protection Fund
o Post- Wildfrre Flooding Events
o Map Modernization Implementation (Floodplain
/ Mapping)
V- FEMA Business Case Plan (Floodplain Mapping)
o Colorado Foundation for Water Education
vf Owens Appoints Castilian Deputy Chief Of Staff
.0 Owens' Request Granted For Drought Assistance
In Six Southeastern Counties

Bill Owens
Governor

Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

o

Arkansas River Basin Issues (Page 10)

o Pipeline Scoping Meetings
o ,/Fountain Creek Watersh~~ Study
i/ ...Kansas v. Colorado Decls10n
~ Kansas v. Colorado Decision
o Arkansas River Compact Administration

Colorado River Basin Issues (Page 11)

o Conference at Bishops Lodge
o CRWUA Conference
/ Reclamation Lets Contract To Build Fish Passage
I 0 Experiment to Benefit Native Fish Expanded In
Grand Canyon
vt Public Meetings on Transfer of Collbran Project
o New USGS Fact Sheet on Past and Present
Droughts in Utah
o Blue River Decree Litigation
o Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
o Interim 602(a) Storage Guidelines
o California Quantification Settlement Agreement
and Related Activities