BOARD01788

• Board Meeting Date: 5/24/1999
• Description: ISF Section - Proposed Changes to the ISF Rules and Regulations
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

5/12/99 DRAFT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC RULEMAKING HEARING
BEFORE THE
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD

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SUBJECT

This is a notice of a public rulemaking hearing before the Colorado Water Conservation
Board (CWCB) for consideration of amendments and additions to the Instream Flow and
Natural Lake Level Program Rules and Regulations, 2 CCR 408-2. The amendments create a
process to ensure timely and orderly participation and challenges by persons interested in
Instream Flow appropriations. The proposed amendments and additions are summarized
below. For the convenience of interested persons, the proposed amendments are also attached
to this notice as Exhibit 1. The CWCB may change the proposed amendments and additions
as put forth in Exhibit 1 prior to or at the rulemaking hearing. The CWCB will consider any
alternative proposals related to the proposed amendments and additions.

HEARING SCHEDULE

Pre hearing Conference

Rulemaking Hearing

DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:

September _,1999
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
State Services Building
1525 Sherman Street, Rm. 610
Denver, CO
[phone]

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

DATE: September 29,1999
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
PLACE:

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All public comments on the proposed amendments and additions should be made in
writing. Oral presentations of the information contained in the written comments will not be
necessary; however, the CWCB will allow brief oral summaries of the public written comments
to be made, to the extent time allows, as described below. Although the CWCB strongly
encourages all interested persons to submit their comments in writing, a short period of time at
the end of the rulemaking hearing (a total of 30 minutes or less) will be reserved for oral
comments by those persons unable to provide the CWCB with written comments.

Written Comment Deadline

Fifteen copies of all public written comments must be delivered to the CWCB office at
1313 Sherman Street, Room #721, Denver, CO 80203 by the close of business (5:00 p,m.) on
September _' 1999. The CWCB will accept and consider late written comments and day-of-
hearing written comments, but any person who fails to deliver written comments by the Friday,
July 2, 1999, deadline will not be entitled to make a Scheduled Oral Presentation.

Oral Presentations

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