BOARD00234

• Board Meeting Date: 7/23/2002
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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prepare files for imaging. With the use of the additional labor, the CWCB expects to complete the imaging
of documents for the following sections during calendar year 2002:

I) Flood Protection Section
2) Water Supply Planning and Finance Section
3) Stream and Lake Protection Section
4) Administrative Section

The benefits associated with the CWCB's Imaging System include the following:

I) creates the "Virtual WRIC," which will allow users to access most Water Resource Information
Center (WRIC) docmnents and, eventually, all CWCB docmnents, via the intemet
2) increases user accessibility to all CWCB docmnents
3) protects loss of historic documents by providing off-site back-up storage
4) improves completeness of stored data
5) improves record filing and retrieval, and eliminates re-filing and lost/misfiled documents
6) provides a data-based decision makiug tool
7) provides for simultaneous access to documents by multiple users
8) make all past present and future CWCB docmnents electronically filed and read

The additional funding for the CWCB Imaging System in the amount of $150,000 provided under
HB02-1152 will be used to (1) continue adding documents to the imaging system, (2) provide optical
character recognitiou capabilities to certain documents, and (3) implement the CWCB's use of imaged
docmnents on the internet. .

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U.S. Bureau ofRecIamation / State Land Board Right-of-Wav - Closed Basin Proiect
Authorizatiou: HB 00-1419 Grant Amount: $306,000
Water Source: Closed Basin Project Type: Right of Way Acquisition
Location: San Luis Valley N. of A1amosa Project Manager: Mike Serlet

This project is the acquisition of right-of-way (ROW) for the Closed Basin project in the San Luis
Valley. The project was completed several years ago however, based on contractual agreement, the ROW
needs to be acquired from the State Land Board by the CWCB and then assigned to the Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR) for their operation of the project. The BOR has defmed the legal descriptions for the
ROWand the Land Board is currently preparing the land transfer documents.

The final acquisition process should be completed in 2002 or early 2003 at which time funds will be
transferred to the Land Board.

37. South Platte Lower River Group - State-Private Partnerships in Managed Groundwater Re-regulation
Authorization: SB 01-157 GrantAmount: $150,000
Water Source: Platte River Project Type: Demonstration-Pilot
Location: Sedgwick County Project Manager: John Van Sciver

Funding is to cover 88% of the cost of a pilot demonstration project to assess the possibility of a
public/private partnership for manage groundwater recharge on the lower South Platte River. (Managed
groundwater projects are designed to retime flows at the lower end of the South Platte from periods of excess
to periods of shortage.) This pilot project is designed to create a pelpetual State interest in water projects that
will benefit the State in meeting its needs for species of concern, in meeting its commitments for threatened
and endangered species in the Platte River Basin, and for other water management pmposes. Private partners
will benefit from their share of recharge credits for augmentation. Standard contracts and agreements with

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