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. Action: No report provided; no action taken 5g. Basin Director's Report - South Platte Tape I, Track I 00:46:30-00:51:09 Action: htformational item; no action taken 5h. Basin Director's Report - Rio Grande Tape I, Track I 00:51:09-00:53:28 Action: htformational item; no action taken 5i. Basin Director's Report - Arkansas Tape I, Track I 00:53:28-01:01:59 Action: htformational items; no action taken 6. Presentation on Colorado River Tree Ring Research by Connie Woodhouse, NOAA Tape I, Track 3 00:01:15 -00:32:44 Action: htformation item; no action taken . 7. Silverthorne RICD Deliberations Continued Tape I, Track 3 00:32:44 - 00:53:59 Action: A motion was made by Travis Smith and seconded by Eric Wilkinson to accept the staff's revised recommendations and findings or fact for the RICD application by the Town of Silverthorne, with some minor changes to the "Findings of Fact" to change paragraph I.a.iii. to state that '''The RICD is in close proximity to suitable upstream points of diversion and upstream storage that may put available, unappropriated water to consumptive beneficial use." The staff recommendations were to make any changes about ramping rates, as may be recommended by the Staff at the Board meeting, and to authorize the Staff and the Attorney General's Office to send the attached revised findings and recommendations to the Water Court for Water Division No.5 before the September 16, 2005 deadline. The revised recommendations and findings offact included the following recommendations: ~ The Board recommends that the Water Court grant the Applicant a decree that is consistent with the proposed decree provided by the Applicant, as long as the Applicant has complied with the following conditions, or the Applicant has included tenns and conditions in the proposed decree that address the following conditions: I. The Applicant shall provide all ofthe necessary information to demonstrate that the RICD reach will not affect flooding, flood control, or the one hundred year flood elevations. 2. The Applicant will include a tenn and condition regarding ramping rates included in the Proposed Decree, and as further clarified by the DOW that the ramping language should apply to all three holiday weekends, such that if the Applicant places a call starting at 7:00 am on a Friday of a holiday weekend, then the applicant will consult with the DOW, Trout Unlimited, and Denver Water to determine how the Applicant will ramp up to the appropriate flow amount beginning at 7:00 am on that first day of the holiday weekend (i.e. the Applicant is not seeking, and the Board does not endorse Flood Protection. Water Supply Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection Water Supply Protection. Conservation and Drought Planning 3