Written Report for Canceled 1-7-08 IBCC Meeting

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Written Report for Canceled 1/7/2008 IBCC Meeting Welcome and Introductions Jennifer Gimbel is the new Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB). She is excited to be here and looks forward to working with the IBCC. Please welcome Jennifer at future IBCC meetings. Nicole Seltzer is the new Executive Director of the Colorado Foundation for Water Education. Nicole will be working with the IBCC's Public Education, Participation, and Outreach Work Group. Discussion ofBasin-Wide Water Needs Assessments The Interbasin Compact Process is tasked with 4 items related toBasin-Wide Water Needs Assessments: 1. Developing consumptive needs assessments; 2. Developing non-consumptive needs assessments; 3. Identifying available water supplies; and 4. Proposing projects or methods (solutions) to meet the needs. Technical work is progressing on the first three items through Roundtable Task Orders, Non- ConsumptiveNeeds Assessment specific work, Consumptive Needs Assessment specific work, and the Colorado River Supply Availability Study. Roundtable Task Orders Each Roundtable has submitted task orders to our technical assistance team. Work on these task orders is progressing and will be completed by July, 2008. A list of these task orders and their status can be found in previous Quarterly New Letters. We will provide a detailed status report at the March meeting. Non-Consumptive Needs Assessments The Roundtables are progressing on their non-consumptive needs assessments. Each Roundtable has had the opportunity to request additional information on environmental and recreational attributes in their basin. We are gathering this data and will assemble GIS coverage's representing Colorado's important environmental and recreational attributes. The Roundtables are now establishing priorities for their non-consumptive work. We are working with each Roundtable to identify priority areas where solutions to their non- consumptive needs can be implemented and/or technical work is needed on quantification. On December 17, 2007 anon-consumptive meeting was held in Glenwood Springs. The meeting was well attended and was very productive. The purpose of that meeting was to: l) present and discuss the status of Roundtables efforts to identify additional attributes and their prioritization process and status; 2) present and discuss technical information regarding quantification techniques that Basin Roundtables can consider for use in completing their non-consumptive needs assessments; and 3) discuss the integration ofnon-consumptive and consumptive needs assessments and coordination with other Roundtables. Representatives from most Roundtable's were in attendance and can provide details on the meeting. Meeting notes and a copy of the Harris D. Sherman Executwe Director of DNR and Director of Compact Negotiations