BOARD02437

• Board Meeting Date: 7/26/1999
• Description: Platte River Issues - Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(PRESP)‎
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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PRESP purposes, the agencies or entitit;s benefiting expect to bear an appropriate share of
the expenses.

The CWCB is expected to take the lead role in financing, developing and
operating the Tamarack Plan facilities, particularly if those facilities are located on
private lands. In doing so, we will coordinate closely with the State Engineer, DOW, and
interested water users, including the South Platte Lower River Group (SPLRG), the
Groundwater Appropriators of the South Platte (GASP), the Lower South Platte Water
Conservancy District, and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. There
may be some portions of the Plan that take advantage of privately owned facilities with
excess recharge capacity.

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, we could participate in the
Tamarack Plan in the following ways:

I. Acquire and hold interests in lands to be used for Tamarack facilities located
outside the state wildlife areas. Costs incurred in implementing the Tamarack Plan
would be credited to Colorado under the Cooperative Agreement and PRESP.

2. Coordinate with the Colorado Division of Wildlife and water users on the design
of Tamarack Plan facilities. These facilities will be used to meet Colorado's
commitment to the PRESP to mitigate existing depletions. Additionally, they may re-
regulate flows to mitigate new depletions and to serve other wildlife and water
administration purposes. The CWCB, DOW, State Engineer, and interested water
users are likely to playa role in designing and operating the facilities to satisfy the
state's recovery program commitments and to provide multiple benefits to Colorado.

3. Coordinate construction of Tamarack Plan facilities located outside the state
wildlife areas and hold the water rights for those facilities.

4. Operate and maintain Tamarack Plan facilities located outside the state wildlife
areas. This is likely to include developing an annual operating plan; operating,
maintaining, and repairing the facilities; accounting for the hydrologic credits; and
billing non-PRESP beneficiaries for their share of costs. These duties could be
performed by staff or contractors with the CWCB, State Engineer, DOW, or
interested water users.

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cc: Randy Seaholm
Dick stenzel
Alan Berryman
Kent Holsinger
Wendy Weiss

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