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<br /> <br />I <br /> <br />In July, the CWCB also filed its notice of appeal in the Golden case. Organizations and govemmental <br />.entities are queuing up to file amicus briefs. Entities who are considering filing amicus briefs include: the <br />Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District; the Rio Grande Water Conservancy District; the Rio Grande <br />Water Users Association; the Jackson County Water Conservancy District; the Southeastern Water <br />Conservancy District; the Southwestern Water Conservancy District; the Colorado Farm Bureau; the Towns <br />of Empire and Silver Plume; the City of Littleton; the City of Fort Collins; and the City of Colorado Springs. <br /> <br />Comment Period Extended on Instream Flow Quantification Policy: The CWCB and DOW staffs are <br />continuing to refine the Instream Flow Quantification Policy that was originally distributed to the Board at <br />its May 2001 meeting. The current draft of the memo is now available on the CWCB's Stream and Lake <br />Protection web site at http://cwcb.state.co.us/isfi'Progranls/DocsIISFOuantPolicv.pdf. Staff now plans to take <br />comments through the end of the year and bring a summary ofthose comments back to the Board at its <br />January 2002 meeting. <br /> <br />Colorado Water Trust: The founding board of the Colorado Water Trust (CWT) has been busy building the <br />foundation for this new organization. Since its initial meeting in June the board has met monthly to address <br />the business of getting such an organization off the ground. It is expected that the CWT will fmalize and <br />execute its articles of incorporation and bylaws and the hiring of an interim director at its upcoming meeting <br />in September. The CWT Board has determined that one of the fust tasks of the interim director will be to <br />identify and implement an initial "deal". It was agreed that this fust deal should be the permanent <br />acquisition and transfer to the CWCB of a "blue chip" water right to provide wet water to an existing CWCB <br />minimum stream flow right. The CWT is planning an initial kick-off event for sometime in late October or <br />early November 2001 and intends to invite members of the CWCB to this event. We have invited the CWT <br />to a future CWCB board meeting to give an update on its activities and how it envisions the two <br />organizations working together. <br /> <br />. Water Legislation Review Committee Meeting: The Committee met on September 6th in Denver. The <br />agenda included presentations on public recreational use of streams on private property, state water quality <br />issues and a discussion of proposals for legislation. The legislative proposals discussed included: making the <br />Permanent Water Resources Legislation Review Committee permanent and a proposal related to irrigation <br />districts. I attended the hearing and can provide you with more details and insight at our meeting. <br /> <br />Colorado Watershed Assembly: The Colorado Watershed Assembly held its second annual conference in <br />Frisco on Friday, September 7th, and Saturday, September 8th. Senator John Evans gave the conference <br />kickoff speech. His preserice at the conference is representative of the Assembly's intent to have a greater <br />statewide impact. Another agenda item of interest to the CWCB was a panel discussion about the City of <br />Golden application for recreational water rights on Clear Creek. Ted Kowalski represented the CWCB and <br />Bill McKee, a City of Golden Council Member as well as a watershed coordinator for the Colorado <br />Department of Public Health and Environment, represented the City of Golden. The attendees appreciated <br />the discussion and some of the complications involved in resolving this situation. <br /> <br />Some conference highlights were summarized by Richard Fox, Assembly Chair: <br /> <br />· With over 100 participants at the conference, involved at all levels of watershed protection, there was <br />much more accomplished than at the fust year's conference, and many intra-organizational agreements <br />were made. <br /> <br />· While some people have left the Steering Committee over the last year, at this meeting several strong <br />new groups joined, bringing the Steering Committee up to a full roster of 16 groups (including the <br />CWCB). Ten of them are watershed groups or statewide non-profits and six are agencies. <br /> <br />· The Agency Working Group now consists of 18 state and federal agencies. It is expected to grow to 21- <br />22 in the next few months. They provided a directory of resources available to watershed groups. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />7 <br />