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Original Objective (with Draft Revisions to Obiectives Primarv Comments from Basin Roundtable Meetin 1 on Oriainal Obiectives YampalWhitel San JuanlDoloresl Preliminarv BRT edits) Objectives Common Themes Arkansas Gunnison Colorado South Platte North Platte Green San Miauel Rio Grande 7. MiRimi.ii!8 Cests 5. Promote Cost . Allocate cost to all . Suggested change . Seek maximum . Enhance economic . General support for . Safe Drinking Water . Difficult to assess . Cost-effectiveness can . General support for Promote Cost- Effectiveness beneficiaries fairly from "minimize costs" opportunity for and financial this objective Act impacts cost cost benefits of have different meaning this objective Effectiveness . Achieve benefits at to "promote cost- funding and financing opportunities because water environmental to different users lowest cost effectiveness" . Consider cost . Allocate costs among treatment systems enhancements and . Issues with traditional . Provide for funding . Cheapest solution not allocation to all users all beneficiaries have to be updated open space benefit/cost ratio eligibility always best . Ag can't afford new . Consider creative methods . Mitigate for third-party projects funding opportunities . Need to quantify "soft" economic impacts . Recognize wildlife . All beneficiaries and "hard" costs and open space should pay for water benefits of agriculture projects, including oublic 8. Protect Cultural 6. Protect Cultural . Maintain quality of life . Maintain balance . Protect existing uses . Protect cultural . General support for . Need to preserve . All aspects of water . Sustain irrigated . Maintain a viable Values Values unique to each basin between preserving ag and interests from values basinwide this objective water rights (property management must agriculture economic base . Provide for long-tenn lands and ability to sell calls downstream . Minimize hann to all value) and CWCB be accepted by . "Align" cultural values . Strike "respect urban needs (beyond 30 years) ag water ri ghts . Improve existing users framework public . Incorporate the values way of life" . Maintain open space . Acknowledge urban conditions . Balance traditional . Look beyond 30 of Native American . Respect current way of life & values . Enhance instream and emerging years when communities character of basin . Acknowledge ag way flows cultures (change considering cultural "way of life" and of life & quality of life . Ag use is part of "protect" to values quality of life quality of life "encourage/ enhance'~ 9. Provide for Healthy Deleted [31 . N/A . Difficult to maintain . Enhance habitat and . Strive to "sustain . General support for . Diversify economy . General support for . Sustainable economy . Consider Colorado Economy populations in ag natural environment populations" this objective . Maximum use of this objective . Seek diverse sustain ability areas . Provide for/protect . Provide infrastructure renewable resources components of . Infers an element of . Healthy Southeast healthy Gunnison for growth within (i.e., timber) economy financial support Colorado economy economy basin . Healthy North Platte . Economy not in economy conflict with environmental values 10. Provide for 7. Operational . Provide for short-term . Suggested addition of . Consider optimizing . Remove institutional . General support for . Operational flexibility . Prevent a call on the . Must not diminish . Make this specific to ODerational Flexibilitv Flexibility transfer of water to "Operational Flexibility" operations of existing barriers this objective exists due to small- Yampa River people's rights in-basin in Rio different users, while objective facilities . Encourage (instead community nature of mainstem and Green . Highest beneficial use Grande protecting water rights . Flexibility to use ag of allow) use of water basin and White Rivers is not always monetary . Store water that is not water for different for different purposes . Different levels of required for Compact purposes under flexibility in stored vs. deliveries different conditions, direct flow w;::tor- without impacting orooertv riahts N/A 8. Comply with All . Doctrine of Prior . Need to protect water . Protect individual . Discussed in context . Discussed in context . Discussed in context . All objectives/ . Discussed in context . Discussed in context Applicable Laws Appropriations rights and work within property rights of previous objectives of previous objectives of previous objectives subobjectives must of previous objectives of previous objectives and Regulations [4] . Environmental (e.g., Doctrine of Prior be consistent with ESA) Appropriations Doctrine of Prior . Other applicable laws & Appropriations reas N/A Additional . None . None . None . None . Sustainability . None . Organize each . Balance Benefits and . None Suggestions on . Doctrine of Prior objective by interest Costs Objectives Appropriations group . Conservation-based obiective Notes: [1] Based on Roundtable Technical Meeting #1 discussions and comments, this objective has substantial overlap with "Operational Flexibility." These two objectives were therefore merged into a single objective. [2] Lack of clarity on how one altemative would be measurably more "implementable" than another, plus lack of clear definition/measure of implementability resulted in merging this objective into "Comply with All Applicable Laws and Regulations." [3] While recognizing that it is important to have a healthy economy in each basin, it was detennined that the clearest link between water management and economics is through having a dependable supply for all uses. This objective is redundant with others and was therefore deleted. [4] No altemative will be proposed that does not or could not meet applicable laws and regulations. This objective may thus be retained but may not be used to compare altematives. N/A Not applicable A DRAFT 2 L:\80ardmem\November 2003\SWS116 Objectives 11-11-03.doc 11/13/2003