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<br />Request for Modified Contested Case Hearing Schedule <br />Due to the nurober of contested cases, Staff is proposing that the Board adopt a modified hearing <br />schedule to allow additional time to resolye the concerns that haye been raised. As detailed in <br />the attached Notices to Contest, Staff has received nuroerous concerns relatiye to the proposed . . <br />instream flow appropriations in the North Fork Gunnison River and the Smith Fork Gunnison <br />River basins. Generally, the concerns regarding these proposed instream flow appropriations <br />pertain to (I) the recognition of existing, undecreed water uses, (2) identifying and <br />docuroentation of these undecreed uses and (3) the ability to deyelop water resources in the <br />future. Staff belieyes that this modified hearing schedule will proyide sufficient time to enable <br />Staffto resolve the concerns listed aboye as well as other concerns that haye been identified. <br /> <br /> Standard Schedule Modified Schedule <br />May Board meeting Set hearing date and appoint Postpone standard May <br /> Hearing Officer actions until July Board <br /> meeting <br />Prior to July Board meeting Parties submit prehearing Ongoing negotiations <br /> statements and attend <br /> prehearing conference <br />July Board meeting No action Set hearing date and appoint <br /> Hearing Officer <br />August 15 Parties submit rebuttal No action <br /> statements <br />Prior to September Board No action Parties submit prehearing <br />meeting statements and attend <br /> prehearing conference <br />September Board meeting Board holds hearing and takes No action <br /> final action <br />October 15 Process finished Parties submit rebuttal <br /> statements <br />November Board meeting Board holds hearing and takes <br /> final action <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />To date, Staff has met with the local water users on seyeral occasions and has recently hired a <br />consultant (Kelly DiNatale, CDM) to assist the community in the identification, quantification <br />and docuroentation of the existing and future water uses for the North Fork Gunnison and the <br />Smith Fork Gunnison River basins. The additional time proyided by the adoption of this <br />modified hearing schedule would allow CWCB Staff, consultants, CRWCD, Water Division 4 <br />Engineer and North Fork Improyement Association to perform the following by June 30, 2005: <br /> <br />. Proyide mapping and GIS coverage of the basins affected by the proposed instream flow <br />appropriations, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4 <br />