BOARD00543

• Board Meeting Date: 7/28/2003
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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schedule in compliance with the court order and until the determination is declared final.

A copy of the AOP is available on Reclamation's Upper Colorado Region Website at
htto://www.uc.usbr.gov/wrg/aop.

California Quantification Settlement Agreement and Related Activities: This is the topic of a
Board Memorandum for the July meeting and will not be discussed further here. The graph below
shows how water is being used by California agriculture in comparison to the Interim Surplus
Guidelines.

July 1 Forecast of 2003 Year-End Colorado River
Water Use by the California Agricultural Agencies

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3.850 MAF
-2003 Target = 3.74 MAF
. . . . . .2006 Target = 3.64 MAF
- . - . 2009 Target = 3.53 MAF
- - - 2012 Target = 3.47 MAF
_ Year.End Forecast
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Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program: Staff continues to be involved in determining
which activities should be part ofthe strategic plan and the prioritization of those activities and the
development of the annual work plan and program budget. Efforts these past few months have been
focused almost totally on the development of a comprehensive action plan aimed at conserving the
Humpback Chub. Preliminary recommendations were made to the AMWG at its May 29 meeting.
The TWG met on May 28 and 30. The next AMWG meeting is August 13-14.

Ruedi Reservoir Contract Negotiations: CWCB staff represented Colorado in contract negotiations
with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop a contract that
would deliver 10,825 acre-feet of water per year through 2012 to benefit endangered fish and critical
habitat in the Colorado mainstem. The draft contract was approved by the CWCB at the May meeting
and has now been signed by all parties. This completes another element ofthe IS-Mile Reach PBO!

Petition to List Roundtail and Headwater Chub: The center for Biological Diversity and Sky Island.
Alliance filed a petition on April 2 with the USFWS to list the Roundtail Chub and Headwater Chub as
endangered species. The Center claims that the Roundtail was once abundant throughout the Lower
Colorado River Basin but is now limited to 19 small tributaries of the Gila, San Pedro, SaIt and Verde
. rivers in Arizona and New Mexico. The Headwater Chub is found in only 13 small tributaries of the

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