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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Shennan Street, Room n1 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone:(303)8~3441 <br />FAX: (303) 866-4474 <br />www.cwcb.state.co.use <br /> <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Bill Owens <br />Governor <br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />Russell George <br />Executive Director <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Rod Kuharich, Directo~ <br />Rick Brown, Intrastate Water Management and Development <br /> <br />Rod Kuharich <br />CWCB Director <br /> <br />From: <br /> <br />Date: <br /> <br />Dan McAuliffe <br />Deputy Director <br /> <br />July 26, 2006 <br /> <br />Subject: <br /> <br />Agenda Item 17, July 24-26 Board Meeting, <br />Water Supply Reserve Account - Preliminary Draft of Criteria and Guidelines and <br />Statewide Water Supply Initiative - Phase 2 Update <br /> <br />Senate Bill 06-179 was pasted by the 2006 legislalure and signed into law by Governor Owens. The <br />legislation establishes the Water Supply Reserve Account (Account). Pursuant to the legislation, the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board has a number of responsibilities including the requirement to jointly <br />develop, with the Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC), criteria and guidelines for allocation of funds from <br />tl1e Account. This memorandum contains two attachments: Attachment A is a preliminary draft of the <br />criteria and guidelines and Attachment B is a preliminary draft of an application form for allocating funds <br />from the Account. Both documents contain additional background information and detail which will not be <br />repeated here. <br /> <br />Board Members will recall tl1at at your May meeting the Board appointed a subcommittee (Barbara Biggs, <br />Harold Miskel, and Eric Wilkenson) to work with tl1e IBeC to jointly develop the criteria and guidelines. <br />The IBeC meet on June 30, 2006 and appointed the following subcommittee to work with the Board: John <br />Porter, Melinda Kassen, Ray Wright, and Wayne Vandeschuere. The IBCC also identified 3 "unofficial" <br />members oftl1e subcommittee: Dan Birch, Senator Jim Isgar, and Representative Kathleen Curry. At tl1e <br />IBeC meeting it was also agreed to have a preliminary draft developed for discussion by the subcommittee <br />and a meeting was scheduled for June 17. The attachments are tl1e versions of tl1e documents tl1at were <br />discussed at the June 17 meeting. The Board will also be provided witl1 a summary of the results of the June <br />17 meeting. <br /> <br />During this agenda item the Board will also be provided witl1 a brief update oftl1e Statewide Water Supply <br />Initiative (SWSn. No action is requested regarding SWSI <br /> <br />Board Action <br /> <br />The Board will be asked to provide feedback on the two Attachments. The Board will also be requested to <br />authorize staff to forward tl1e draft documents to the entire IBCC. This will allow the IBCC time to review <br />the documents and seek input from tl1e Interbasin Compact Basin Roundtables prior to tl1e Boards September <br />meeting. It is staffs goal to finalize the draft documents for approval at tl1e Boards September meeting. <br /> <br />Rood Protection. Water Supply Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection <br />Water Supply Protection. Conservation and Drought Planning <br />