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<br />.' <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />. We contacted staff at the WQCD to initiate discussion with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe <br />regarding their adoption of Tribal Water Quality Standards. We will coordinate with the <br />WQCD and work with the Ute Mountain Tribe to include the Forum's approach for <br />addressing salinity in those proposed standards. <br />. We continue to discuss ways to bring three new areas in Colorado into the program following <br />USDA studies showing potential salt load reductions from small acreages in the Silt, <br />DeBeque, Whitewater areas, <br /> <br />Flaming Gorge Re-operations EIS: Environmental Protection Agency (EP A) gives notice (70 Fed, <br />Reg, 71139. November 25.2005) of the availability of the Bureau of Reclamation's final EIS on <br />Operation of Flaming Gorge Dam, Colorado River Storage Project, Protection and Assistance in the <br />Recovery of Populations and Designated Critical Habitat of Four Endangered Fishes: Bonytail, Colorado <br />Pikeminnow, Humpback Chub and Razorback Sucker; Green River, Utah and Wyoming, The wait period <br />ends December 27,2005. The states continue to have issues with the authorities cited that would allow <br />the re-operations to occur and continue to work with USBR towards resolution of those issues. <br /> <br />Mohave Generating Station To Be Temporally Shut Down: The 1,580 megawatt Mohave Generating <br />Station located near Laughlin, Nevada and blamed for clouding visibility at Grand Canyon National Park <br />will be shutdown for several months. The shut down results from terms in a 1999 consent decree between <br />environmental groups and Southern California Edison (SCE) under which SCE had until December 31, <br />2005 to install emission controls. SCE requested an extension of the deadline from the environmental <br />groups, which was rejected. The plant serves about I mil\ion residential and commercial customers <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Gunnison River Basin <br /> <br />Aspinall Reoperations EIS: The Hydrology Committee for the Aspinall Reoperations EIS met on <br />December 2"" to discuss appropriate modeling for the EIS process, The next meeting will be February I st. <br /> <br />The next Cooperating Agency meeting is scheduled for February 13th. Reclamation may provide their <br />final description of the No Action Alternative as approved by their Regional office, <br /> <br />Guunison River Basin Programmatic Biological Opinion (PBO) Proposed: A meeting was held with <br />USBR, State representatives and basin water users to discuss the potential development of a PBO, The <br />Upper Colorado River Recovery Program-Management Committee encouraged that a PBO process be <br />pursued, Towards this end, a meeting was held at USBR offices in Grand Junction on December 13, <br />2006 to discuss the PBO process, Tom Blickensderfer and Randy Seaholm attended the meeting and will <br />keep the Board advised on the progress of these discussions, Some Board members may recall that <br />efforts to initiate a PBO process several years ago did not move forward because of resistance from <br />USBR and basin water users did not have a strong desire to pursue a PBO at that time, <br /> <br />Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Federal Reserved Water Right: Following the signing <br />of the April 2, 2003 agreement with Interior that would have lead to settlement of these reserved water <br />rights several environmental groups filed suit in federal district court to stop implementation of that <br />agreement. The case has not moved forward for some time, On January 9, 2006, federal district judge <br />Clarence Brimmer issued a minute order setting a dispositive motions hearing for March 9, 2006 in <br />Denver, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />39 <br />