BOARD00708

• Board Meeting Date: 3/16/2004
• Description: ISF Section - Update on Rule 6g. Revision and Request for Authorization to Initiate Rulemaking
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

NOTICE OF PUBLIC RULEMAKING HEARING BEFORE THE
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD

SUB.TECT

This is a notice of a public rulemaking hearing before the Colorado Water Conservation Board
(CWCB) for consideration of amendments to the Rules Concerning the Colorado Instream Flow and
Natural Lake Level Program, 2 CCR 408-2. The amendments (I) implement H.B. 03-1320, which
authorizes the CWCB to temporarily acquire water rights for instream flow use under certain
conditions and in accordance with specified procedures; and (2) revise Rule 6i., which establishes a
procedure for public input into the CWCB's acquisitions of water, water rights and interests in water.
The proposed amendments are set forth below. A redlined version of the proposed rules showing
changes to the current rules is posted on the CWCB's website at http://cwcb.state.co.us/. A hard copy
is available upon request to the CWCB staff(1313 Sherman Street, Room 723, Denver, CO 80203;
[phone]). The CWCB may change the proposed amendments set forth herein prior to or at the
rulemaking hearing. The CWCB will consider any alternative proposals related to the proposed
amendments.

HEARING SCHEDIJI,E

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Prehearing Conference

Rulemaking Hearing

DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:

May 18, 2004
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
State Services Building
1525 Sherman Street, Rm. 610
Denver, CO [phone]

DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:

May 25, 2004
4:00 p.m.

Alamosa, CO

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

All public comments on the proposed amendments should be made in writing. Oral
presentations of the information contained in the written comments will not be necessary; however, the
CWCB will allow brief oral summaries ofthe public written comments to be made, to the extent time
allows, as described below. Although the CWCB strongly encourages all interested persons to submit
their comments in writing, a short period oftime at the end of the rulemaking hearing (a total of 30
minutes or less) will be reserved for oral comments by those persons unable to provide the CWCB
with written comments.

Written Comment Deadline

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Twenty copies of all public written comments must be delivered to the CWCB office at 1313
Sherman Street, Room #723, Denver, CO 80203 by the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on April 26,
2004. The CWCB will accept and consider late written comments and day-of-hearing written
comments, but any person who fails to deliver written comments by the April 26, 2004 deadline will
not be entitled to make a Scheduled Oral Presentation, as described below. Comments submitted on or
before February 6, 2004 by the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District and Trout Unlimited on