Arkansas 1-10-07 Bylaws-revised

• Basin Roundtable: Arkansas
• Title: By-laws for the Arkansas Basin Roundtable
• Date: 3/8/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: By-Laws

BYLAWS FOR THE ARKANSAS BASIN ROUNDTABLE

Adopted March 8, 2006

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REAMBLE

In Colorado, water is among the state’s most important issues. The ability to successfully
address the challenges and opportunities related to water requires a basin - driven, collab orative
approach. To facilitate continued discussions within and between basins on water management
issues, and to encourage locally driven collaborative solutions to water supply challenges, the
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Colorado Water for the 21 Century Act created nine perman ent basin roundtables. These
roundtables include the following: (1) South Platte Basin; (2) Arkansas Basin; (3) Rio Grande Basin;
(4) Gunnison Basin; (5) Colorad o Basin; (6) Yampa - White area; Dolores, San Miguel, and San Juan
Basins; (8) Metro area; and ( 9) North Platte area.

Legitimacy requires that anyone potentially affected by the actions of a roundtable should
have an opportunity to participate or, at a minimum, each affected group of stakeholders should have
a like - minded representative participatin g as a member of the roundtable organization. Only by
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working together can Colorado’s 21 century water issues be resolved.

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AME ND ISSION

Section 1. Name. The name of the organization shall be the Arkansas Basin Roundtable, with its
princ ipal office located as agreed by the Roundtable as an administrative decision. The Pueblo Board
of Water Works is the current office location, 319 W. 4th St, P.O. Box 400, Pueblo, Colorado, 81002
and will distribute information to the Roundtable.

Sectio n 2. Mission. The mission of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable is to work collaboratively,
from both an inter - basin and intra - basin perspective, to provide an assessment of agricultural,
recreational, municipal, industrial and environmental water supply needs and to identify projects and
methods to meet those needs in sustainable, balanced ways. This roundtable will also serve as a
forum for public involvement on water matters.

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OALS ND BJECTIVES

Section 1. Communications . Improve communication s by providing a forum to facilitate the
coordination of decisions made among affected landowners, concerned citizens and representatives of
local, state and federal agencies.

Section 2. Cooperation . Facilitate cooperation and the voluntary exchange of i nformation in
order to identify and address intra - basin and inter - basin water concerns in a proactive manner.
ABRT Bylaws 1 Revised 8/9/06
Revised 1/10/07