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<br />00233"7 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3. U.S. Geological Survey <br /> <br />. Finalize the well inventory list <br /> <br />4. Colorado River Board <br /> <br />. Finalize CRB policies and procedures and associated documents <br />. Colorado River Board adopts policies and procedures <br />. IdentifY property and well owners within the "accounting surface" boundary <br />. Formally notify propelty and well owners, by mail and news releases, of contracting <br />procedures for exchange water <br />. Initiate review of individual applications for Project water <br /> <br />WESTERN WATER PLANNING <br /> <br />Glen Canvon Adaotive Management Program <br /> <br />The Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group (TWG) met in Phoenix, Arizona on <br />March 14-15, 200 I. At the meeting, staff of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center <br />(GCMRC) provided updates on the incorporation of management objectives into the GCMRC <br />strategic plan, and additional Endangered Species Act and NEPA compliance requirements. The <br />USFWS made a presentation to the TWG on the draft recovery goals for the four endangered fish <br />of the Colorado River. Status reports were provided on basinwide hydrology and the Lees Ferry <br />trout fishery. Finally the TWG discussed its raft trip scheduled for the last week in March 200 I. <br /> <br />The Glen Canyon Danl Adaptive Management Work Group is scheduled to meet in Phoenix, <br />Arizona, on April 12-13, 200 I. Mr. Harris and I will be attending this meeting. <br /> <br />Increase Funding for the Bureau of Reclamation <br /> <br />Included in the Board folder. for your information, is a press release and letter to President <br />George W. Bush, by eight Western water groups urging the administration to curb the decline in <br />funding for Reclamation that it has experienced during the past decade. Reclamation's budget has <br />been reduced by nearly 36 percent since 1990. The groups emphasized that, since 1990, the <br />population within the west has grown by 17 percent, and is expected to increase by 30 percent before <br />2020. The letter asks the President to increase Reclamation's program funding to $1 billion annually <br />by fiscal year 2005, from its CUlTent funding level of $648 million in FY 2001 to ensure "solid <br />progress for agriculture, environmental and urban water needs, and to head off water shortages in <br />the entire western United States." <br /> <br />Signing of Joint Declaration and Agreements Between Mexico and California <br /> <br />On March 21 ", representatives of Mexico and California executed three separate documents <br />during Mexico President Vicente Fox's meeting with Governor Gray Davis in Los Angeles and <br />Sacramento, California. These documents were: <br /> <br />7 <br />