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discussion will focus on progress we are making toward resolution of questions Kansas raises concerning .. the accounting for spills between Pueblo Reservoir and John Martin Reservoir and d concerning the .. operation of Trinidad reservoir. For more information, Steve Miller and Steve Witte (the Division 2 Engineer) are both very helpful. cWcB Technical Assistance to Local Governments in the Fountain Creek Watershed: We are becoming more involved in efforts to address the effects of flooding in the Fountain Creek watershed, which were especially destructive this year. We will recommend a grant of $50,000 for Fiscal Year, 2000- 2001 to provide technical assistance to local governments. Three opportunities for providing technical assistance have been identified so far. The first is a detailed analysis of flood hydrology in the basin; the second is preparation of GIS information for the watershed, building from the existing databases developed by the participating local governments; we are also examining opportunities to structure a cost-share proposal to the Corps for help through the Planning Assistance to States program (Section 22, to the thoroughly initiated). The Corps is already conducting a two-part technical review of flood hydrology in the Fountain Creek basin. The first area to be addressed includes Monument Creek (from its headwaters to its confluence with Fountain Creek near downtown Colorado Springs) and the portion of Fountain Creek from that confluence downstream to the Fountain Creek confluence with the Arkansas River (near downtown Pueblo). The second geographic area includes Fountain Creek upstream of its confluence with Monument Creek (upstream from Colorado Springs to its headwaters near Woodland Park). This stream reach has already been studied by the City of Colorado Springs. After the Corps completes its current review (late winter or early spring of 2000), we plan to .. evaluate the need for further hydrologic analysis. If it is useful, we may also conduct rainfall-runoff .. analyses for the reach from the downstream end of Colorado Springs downstream to the Arkansas River confluence in Pueblo. This information would be linked to analyses that have already been conducted for Monument Creek and Fountain Creek upstream of the confluence in Colorado Springs. Pueblo Inundation Request: The City of Pueblo has informed the CWCB that it is conducting environmental studies on its proposed water system. As a result, Pueblo would like to delay consideration of its inundation request until the studies are finished. Depending on weather conditions, the studies may not be completed until the spring of2000 (FW: Case No. 98CW138 (pueblo). Trinidad Project Operating Principles: Staff has continued working with the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District [PRWCD], the US Bureau of Reclamation, downstream Colorado water users, and the State of Kansas to finalize certain changes to the operating principles for the Trinidad Project. A meeting with all parties was held in Denver on October 19, and a follow up meeting with the PRWCD and Reclamation was held on Nov. I. Agreement is near on provisions goveming winter stockwater releases and the temporary detention and subsequent release of flood flows. A cooperative study to develop a tracking system for irrigated acreage and data to facilitate allocating water on the basis of crop consumptive needs has been initiated by the PRWCD and Reclamation. The Board will be entering into a separate $30,000 agreement with the PRWCD to cover a portion of these study costs. This agreement will use the balance of funds in the Purgatoire River Transit Loss Study authorization, as modified in the 1999 Construction Fund Bill, to determine system losses within the PRWCD project area. The final proposed change to the operating principles involves additional storage at Trinidad Lake beyond the 20,000 AF transferred Model storage right and is not ready for action. Reclamation, the PRWCD, and e 10