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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />C\VCB Members <br />Status of Platte River Cooperative Agreement Implementation <br />September 21, 1998 <br /> <br />Future DepletIOns Plan, and fiuther agreed to allow Kebraska and \Vyoming up to three years to <br />develop their respective plans to address future depletions. <br /> <br />issues / Developments: <br /> <br />. Dick Stenzel, Di\'ision I Engmeer, is acting as State of Colorado's representative to the <br />Water sub-committee, Jon Altenhofen, an employee of the Northern Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District, is acting as the Colorado water users' representative, <br /> <br />. By prior agreement, Boyle Engineering has prepared a draft "long-list" of possible water <br />supply I conservation projects to provide the 60,000 ' 80,000 acre-feet in needed shortage <br />reductions, Screening criteria will beapplied to this long-list to produce a shorter list of <br />project ideas for further analysis, This long-list includes reference to "increasing transbasin <br />diversions," As described more completely in the attached letter, Colorado has vigorously <br />objected to this idea, as have numerous South Platte basin water users, <br /> <br />. At the most recent Water sub-committee meeting on September I in Cheyenne, about 60 <br />interested members of the public attended under the umbrella of the Platte River Basin <br />Agricultural Alliance (PRBAA), The objectives and views of this organization are described <br />more fully in the attached letter to Governor Romer from Central Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District President Robert W, Walker, To my knowledge, the Central Colorado <br />District is the only Colorado water organization belonging to the PRBM though there <br />appears to be some interest in the group among Colorado users of North Platte River water, <br />Many Wyoming and Nebraska organizations also appear to be involved, The September I <br />meeting attendees insisted on representation on the Water sub-committee, and also requested <br />that the sub-committee's work be suspended until after November 17, Both requests were <br />presented to the Governance Committee at its regularly scheduled meeting on September 2, <br />F allowing lengthy discussion, during which Colorado water users strongly indicated they <br />feel well represented in the process, the Governance Committee agreed to appoint Mr, Kurt <br />Bucholz of Saratoga, Wyoming to sit on the sub-committee as a "water user," though not as <br />the representative of "agricultural water users" as had been suggested by several people <br />affiliated with the PRBAA The Governance Committee did not agree to the request to <br />suspend the work of the Water sub-committee, <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. The Governance Committee has tasked the Water sub-committee with verifying assumptions <br />contained within Colorado's Future Depletions Plan regarding the monthly distribution of <br />accretive and depletive affects of various sources of supply South Platte River basin water <br />users may draw upon in the future, Verification is necessary before the Governance <br />Committee will adopt the Future Depletions Plan as proposed, I am currently preparing <br />written responses to several questions that have come up during the course of review, which <br />responses are available at your request. ' <br />~ ~ <br />