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'. 002:ri;\ . . " , Lower Colorado Water Supplv Proiect On December 12, 2000, Mr. George Spencer attended a meeting in Needles with representatives from the City of Needles (Needles) and Reclamation to discuss the various parties' progress to date in the Project. Needles reported that its current water service subcontract authority is being amended to include the Counties ofImperial and Riverside. Reclamation announced that the project well field has been completed and the identification of the "accounting surface" has been completed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Mr. Spencer reported that the CRB is set to embark on identifying all the property owners that fall within the accounting surface from the California/Nevada border down to the Northerly International Boundary (NIB). A second meeting is scheduled for February 22"d, in Yuma, Arizona. I anticipate that it will take until June to complete the title search of all the property owners within the accounting surface. Staff will then issue a Notice to each owner, that if they are pumping ground water, that they are in need of a contract from the Department of the Interior. Accompanying the Notice will be a Procedure developed by the Board for obtaining Project Water. That Procedure is currently undergoing review by the six agencies. The final version of that document is scheduled to be presented to the Board at its March 14th meeting for adoption. Colorado River Environmental Activities. Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program (MSCP) The Steering Committee's technical consulting team ofSAIC/Jones and Stokes has prepared a draft Work Plan which will guide development of the MSCP through Spring 2002. This draft Work Plan was extensively evaluated and discussed by the MSCP Program Subcommittee at a two- day meeting in San Diego on February S-6, 200 I. Based upon this evaluation, the consultants will revise and finalize the Work Plan and budget. Mr. Harris is working closely with the MSCP Facilitation Team in an effort to re-define their scope-of-work and ensure that there are adequate budget resources remaining to complete the Program by Spring 2002. The Facilitation Team will be working much more closely with the Technical' Team-and-Point=of"Contact -(Mr-:-Harris} iii.- tl1e -remaining rS=r6months:-- Finally, Mr. Zimmerman, as Chairman, sent letters to each of the Tribal ChaiI1Jersons of the Tribes involved in the MSCP, requesting that they indicate their interest in development of conceptual habitat restoration proposals for inclusion in the Conservation Plan. The Steering Committee is willing to provide the technical services of the consultants to assist in these planning efforts. The SAlC/Jones and Stokes team has this proposed effort scoped and budgeted. Non-Federal MSCP Interstale Cost-Sharing Agreement Amendment Status On Tuesday, February 13'", Ms.' Rita P. Pearson-Maguire, Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, executed the amended non- federal interstate cost-sharing agreement for completion of the MSCP. The non-federal partners (Arizona, California, and Nevada) are responsible for providing an additional $].1 million. Of this total amount, Arizona is obligated to 5