BOARD02431

• Board Meeting Date: 11/22/1999
• Description: CF Section - Request to Delay Grant De-Authorization for Arkansas River Basin Water and Storage Needs Assessment - Supplemental Memorandum
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX, (3031 866.4474

STATE OF COLOMDO

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Bill Owens
Governor

SUPPLEMENTAL MEMORANDUM

GregE. Walcher
Executive Director, DNR
Peter H. Evans
Director, eWeB

TO:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

FROM:

Mike Serlet, P.E., Chief, Water Supply Planning and Finance Seqqon\
Steve Miller, P.E., Interstate Streams Section 8~ ~

November 19, 1999

DATE:

SUBJECT:

Agenda Item lOa - November 22-23,1999, Board Meeting
Request to Delay Grant De-authorization for Arkansas River Basin Water and
Storage Needs Assessment

. Introduction

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In a November 16, 1999 memo to the Board for Agenda Items lOa - IOk Mike Serlet, the Chief
of the Water Supply Planning and Finance Section recommended deauthorization of the $25,000
grant to the Southeastern Colorado Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise
("Enterprise") for Phase II of the Arkansas River Basin Water and Storage Needs Assessment.
This recommendation was based on discussions with the CWCB project manager, Steve
Miller, and the Enterprise's study manager, Steve Arveschoug, that indicated the assessment
no longer required the funding authorized in SB 99-173. Subsequent to those discussions the
Enterprise changed its position and submitted a letter requesting that the Board not deauthorize
the grant at this time. A copy of that letter is attached hereto.

Discussion

In 1999, the Colorado Legislature in SB 99-173 authorized a $25,000 grant to the Southeastem
Colorado Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise to assist in the development of a storage
options plan as part of phase II of the Arkansas River Basin Water and Storage Needs Assessment.
This authorization was intended as a backup source of funding if the preferred source of funding
from the Severance Tax Operational Account ("STOA") was not available due to earlier
commitments. In May 1999 it was determined that were funds were available in the STOA and
Phase II was funded for $25,000 from that source.