BOARD01014

• Board Meeting Date: 9/22/1988
• Description: CWCB Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Appointed Legislators, HJR 1001
August 29, 1988
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(2) Intensive negotiations, precipitated by Utah, with the
Upper Basin states, power customers, and national
environmental groups to revise the use of hydropower
revenues from the Colorado River Storage Project (at
stake is several hundred million dollars of power
revenues for COlorado for project development over the
next several decades),

(3) Implementation of the Colorado River Endangered Fishes
Recovery Implementation Program so as to avoid
jeopardy opinions under the Endangered Species Act,
which opinions could tnwart future water resources
development in the Colorado River Basin,

(4) Major issues concerning future operation of the
COlorado River mainstem reservoirs,

(5) Interstate litigation concerning the Arkansas and
North Platte Rivers,

(6) U.S. Forest Service reserved rights claims for
instream flows for channel maintenance purposes,

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(7) Resolution of issues concerning maintenance of the
permanent pool and allocation of storage space in Bear
Creek Reservoir,

(8) Resolution of issues concerning instream flow water
rights filings in Summit County,

(9) Green Mountain Reservoir/Orchard-Mesa check operating
issues,

(10) Promulgation of rules and regulations for H.B. 1158,
1987 Session (adoption of official state position on
federal requirements for fish and wildlife mitigation),

(11) Wild and scenic river designation of the Gunnison
River, which designation raises important issues about
the future operation of the Aspinall Unit (Blue Mesa
Reservoir), and

(12) Negotiations concerning wilderness reserved water
rights which Senators Armstrong and Wirth initiated
about a year ago.

These matters, along with daily administration and management, .
would fully consume the director's, deputy director's, and one
section chief's time, and large parts of the time of other
staff members who have the expertise to work on a pOlicy study.