BOARD01090

• Board Meeting Date: 3/24/2003
• Description: Report of Prehearing Conference
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD

Public Rulemaking Hearing on Amendments and Additions to
Rules Concerning the Colorado Instream Flow and Natural Lake Level Program
2 CCR 408-2

REPORT OF PREHEARING CONFERENCE
February 26, 2003

Introduction

A Prehearing Conference in this rulemaking proceeding was held on
Wednesday, February 26, 2003, beginning at 9:20 a.m. at 1525 Sherman Street,
Denver. In attendance were the following:

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Felicity Hannay, Deputy Attorney General, Prehearing Officer
Linda Bassi, First Assistant Attorney General, representing CWCB staff
Alexandra Davis, Assistant Attorney General, representing CWCB staff
Dan Merriman, CWCB staff
Ted Kowalski, CWCB staff
Anne Janicki, CWCB staff
Mark Uppendahl, CWCB staff
JeffBaessler, CWCB staff
Andrew Peternell, representing Trout Unlimited
Lee Miller, representing the Colorado Farm Bureau

Other entities submitting timely written comments but not represented at the
Prehearing Conference are The Southwestern Water Conservation District and the
U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In this Report of Pre hearing Conference
the four entities that submitted timely written comments sometimes are referred to as
Presenter(s).

Revised Proposed Agenda/or the Rulemaking Hearing

The Prehearing Conference attendees discussed the agenda for the hearing to
be held on Monday, March 24, 2003 and reached general agreement on the order of
the Scheduled Oral Presentations and the time for general public comments. After the
Prehearing Conference there was additional informal telephone communication
among the Prehearing Conference attendees. The following proposed hearing agenda
is the result of all the foregoing communications. The Colorado Water Conservation
Board will consider and adopt a final hearing agenda at the commencement of the
hearing on March 24.

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