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<br />Attachments (Page 16) <br /> <br />. National Drought Policy Conclusions <br />&Recommendation <br />. Draft Yampa River Cooperative Agreement <br />. Basin Meeting Schedule <br />. Surplus Criteria EIS Letter <br />. Gunnison Flow Comment Letter <br />. HB 92-1200 Status Report <br />. GOCO Letter & Grant Proposal <br /> <br />.~ <br />.' <br /> <br />. Summary of Resolved Cases <br />. De minimus Cases <br />. Loan Repayment Delinquency Report <br />. Design & Construction Status Report <br />. Contract Processing Report <br /> <br />Federal and Interstate Issnes <br /> <br />WSWC October Meeting: The Western States Water Council (WSWC) will meet in Grand <br />Junction on Oct. 18-20, at the Adam's Mark Hotel. Call the hotel for room reservations at (970) 241-888 <br />by September 17. The CWCB is sponsoring a tOur of endangered fish recovery and salinity control <br />facilities on Wednesday afternoon at 1 :00 p.m. <br /> <br />The Council's regular committee meetings will be held on Thursday. Bureau of Reclamation <br />Commissioner Eluid Martinez will be a special guest on Friday morning. Unfortunately, no meeting <br />agenda has been published. However, if you are interested in attending, please notify Noreen and we will <br />help make some arrangements. <br /> <br />We are also working with Boyle Engineering to set up a reception Thursday evening to benefit <br />the Wayne N. Aspinall Memorial which is raising funds to construct a memorial in Palisade. We hope to <br />help the foundation invite water leaders from around the state to help with this effort. ~ <br /> <br />Finally, we have scheduled a Colorado River Basin planning meeting in Grand Junction that will. <br />take place after the reception. You are welcome to attend. <br /> <br />Moving: Patty Beneke, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science and <br />former Counsel to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has joined the Washington, <br />D.C. law firm of VanNess Feldman. Steve Richardson has also joined the firm. He has resigned as Chief <br />of Policy and External Affairs for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He also has served as Deputy <br />Director of the Bureau of Land Management <br /> <br />Endangered Fish Funding LegislatiOn: HR 2348, the bill authorizing the Bureau of <br />Reclamation (Reclamation) to share the costs of capital construction projects under the Upper Colorado <br />and San Juan River endangered fish recovery programs passed the U.S. House of Representatives on <br />July 25. The companion Senate version of the bill, S. 2239, passed the Senate Committee on Energy and <br />Natural Resources on Sept. 7. It is hoped that the Senate will now adopt the House bill and send it to the <br />President for his signature.. <br /> <br />The estimated capital cost for the two programs is $100 million, $82 miIlion for the Upper <br />Colorado River Program and $18 million for the San Juan River Program. This money will be used for <br />genetic diversity and conservation projects, the propagation of endangered fish species, for the <br />restoration of floodplain habitat and fish passage, for regulation and/or supply of in stream habitat flows, <br />for preventing fish entrapment in canals and for the removal or relocation of non-native fishes. <br /> <br />Several capital construction activities are already underway or are being planned which have or <br />will benefit the fish species. These activities include the dedication of flows from the Flaming Gorge . <br />Dam which is estimated to cost $15 million for the period 1999-2005; and the dedication of$5 million <br /> <br />2 <br />