BOARD02509

• Board Meeting Date: 7/9/1992
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos. Partial.
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Chairman Martineau called the meeting back to order at 1:37 p.m. and there was a
quorum. Present were Harrison, Smith, Jackson, Martineau, Sheftel, Wright, Meyring,
Simpson, and Duncan. Peter Evans, DNR, represented Ken Salazar, and Jennifer
Gimbel, AG's office, represented Gale Norton. Absent were Lochhead, Eisel, and
Olson. Eisel arrived at 1:48 p.m. Duncan left at about 3:00 p.rn.

8d/l0d. Grand County Instream Flow Filings, continued (1:37 - 1:42 p.m.)

A motion was made by Harrison and seconded by Jackson to approve the general
concept of the contract to the extent that 1) the Board would not seek to improve the
position of its existing water rights by the amount of any water introduced by Denver
intended for the benefit of the Grand County entities including water that would be
diverted from Williams Fork and water that would have either been left in the Fraiser
or diverted from other Fraser tributaries and essentially waive any claim for new water
from those sources, 2) the Board essentially not attempt to take a position at this time
relating to negotiating additional water or any water for Vasquez Creek from the
Grand County Water and Sanitation District No.1, and 3) that we authorize our
attorney to negotiate particular language to effectuate that general principle and urge
that she do so in a way that does not unintentionally involve this Board ratifying or
blessing any particular adminiotrative role or way of adminiotering those water rights
so we avoid things like whether it's characterized as a subordination or characterized
in some other way and we particularly avoid blessing one way of characterizing it
rather than another. Discussion followed by Harrison, Duncan, and Jackson. The
motion passed by unanimous decision (7-0) with one abstention. David Smith took no
part in the discussion and was recused.

20a. ColoradO River Matters, Position Paper of Indian Tribes. (1:42 - 1:57 p.m.)

Gene Jencsok, CWCB staff, reviewed a groundwater recharge plan proposed for metro
Ca1ifornia. Jencsok next discussed a position paper developed by the ten Indian Tribes
with water rights in the Colorado River Basin with respect to the seven basin states'
discussions on the Colorado River. QueStions were asked by Jackson and Duncan.
This was an informational item and no action was taken.

20b. Colorado River Matters, 1993 AOP (1:57 - 2:01 p.m.)

Gene Jencsok, CWCB staff, discussed the status of the draft 1993 Annual Operating
Plan for the Colorado River System. A meeting of the seven basin states and the
Bureau has been scheduled for August 11, 1992. Questions were asked by Jackson and
Sheftel. No action was taken.

July 1992 Meeting, page 11