BOARD01670

• Board Meeting Date: 7/28/2003
• Description: CDP Section - Technical Assistance to Covered Entities
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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WHITE PAPER: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO COVERED ENTITIES

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Water conservation is a critical aspect of water supply and demand management. State law
requires any "covered entity" to complete a water conservation plan as part of its application
for State grants and loans. The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) is encouraging
more municipalities to create and implement water conservation plans.

It is the CWCB's goal to:

. Increase the number of covered entities with CWCB-approved water conservation plans,
. Improve the nature and breadth of water conservation practices at the local level, and
. Increase the technical assistance the CWCB provides to local entities for water conservation
planning.

The CWCB is launching a two-phase project to:

. Develop a strategy to guide allocation and management of state resources to provide
technical assistance to covered entities for water conservation plan development, and
. Implement the strategy, resulting in a measurable increase in the number and quality of
water conservation plans in place throughout the State.

. The strategy will be developed through the completion of the following four tasks:

1. Determine what water conservation plans currently exist on file with the State.
2. Evaluate the "quality and effectiveness" of the current water conservation plans.
3. - Develop content for new plans based on guidelines and Best Management Practices in other
western states.
4. Develop a strategy for providing technical assistance to those entities that require and
request water conservation planning support.

Preliminary steps that will lay the foundation for the development of a sound strategy include:

. Summary of current state statutory requirements.
. Inventory of water conservation plans.
. Inventory of water providers with and without conservation plans.
. Summary of interviews with municipal water planners.

This white paper is intended to summarize findings of the above four steps and provide
recommendations for the path forward.

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Summary of Current State Statutory Requirements
Pertinent state statutory requirements are largely contained in three acts: House Bill (HB) 1169,
HB 90-1106 and HB 91-1154. The three bills are summarized below.

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