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; " ~~r" Why Contract With RWAPA? . The CWCB is pursuing contracting (through the above-mentioned MOU) with the Ruedi Water and Power Authority (RWAPA) to oversee the work by a separately-contracted Engineering Consultant who would perform the Multi-Objective Planning Project itself. RWAPA represents all three counties and five municipalities in the Roaring Fork River and Frying Pan River valleys, with elected officials from those jurisdictions as Board members. RWAPA is respected in the geographic area of the Multi-Objective Planning Project as representing well the local water- related concerns. The project will only have relevance if it has local support, particularly from those local elected officials who would be the most likely to consider any of the project's recommendations. The staff believes that RWAPA's involvement from the beginning of the project will greatly increase the likelihood that the CWCB staff and the Engineering Consultant will help develop work products that are locally relevant and that have a good chance of being implemented on the ground. In addition, RWAPA will help involve as many local interests as possible in the project by having closer contact with those groups than the CWCB or the Engineering Consultant could have. Discussion Preliminary indications from RWAPA are that they are very interested in participating with the CWCB in the Multi-Objective Planning Project. The Project Manager, Brian Hyde, already . spoke with their Board in November 1997. He has been invited to meet again with the RW AP A Board at their next meeting in Carbondale on March 12, 1998. Presuming that they maintain their current level of interest in the project, the MOU could be finalized and approved by both parties in short order. The attached MOU language describes the proposed contractual relationship between CWCB and RWAPA. The attached draft Scope of Work describes the work that RW APA would perform to fulfill their MOU obligations. Once the MOU has been executed, the two parties will be ready to retain the services of an Engineering Consultant to perform the project itself. The standard state contracting process will be followed to select the most qualified Engineering Consultant, with the CWCB, RWAPA and local communities participating in the selection process. At the January 1998 meeting Board members received a copy of the 3rd draft of the Scope of Work for Consultant Services. Although it has since been revised, that document described quite accurately what the consultant would be retained to do. The primary emphasis of the project will be on stream stability, but there are many other aspects involved. The consultant will be required to: 1) identify problem areas (with regard to stream stability), 2) determine causes of problems, 3) develop a proposed program for monitoring problem areas, and 4) recommend mitigation strategies for the stream stability problems, _.