continued involvement in a dialogue related to the program and potential legislative proposals. 

 (Please note: the Subconimittee agenda for June includes a "public comment?" component 

 within the FWP Instream Flow Leasing agenda item. Therefore, the Subcommittee may receive 

 additional comment from these organizations, or others, at that time.) 



Responses to EOC Staff Questions 



EQC staff developed and asked the following questions of the Working Group members we 

 spoke with. The questions were based upon components of Subcommittee discussions over the 

 last several months regarding the program and potential legislative proposals. If Subcommittee 

 members wish additional (or different) questions to be asked of the Working Group members, 

 they can suggest those to staff in June and we will call these folks again. 



Bulleted items listed below are staffs suirmiary of the opinions expressed by the interviewees. 



What's Good about the FWP Instream Flow Leasing Program? 



• . The program works with willing lessors. It has safeguards in it, such as requiring a lease 



proposal to go through the change authorization process, including the notice/objection 

 process. There haven't been many objections; most of the leases have been pretty small- 

 scale. The program has been well-received by the lessors, especially in water- 

 saving/water leasing situations. 



• Some positive things have been accomplished; there are no serious complaints. 



• It's a good program. 



• It's a good program. It allows FWP to address priority fisheries and work one-on-one 

 with citizens. It's voluntary. It was slow in getting moving, but now seems to be up and 

 nmning. 



What Could be Improved with the FWP Instream Flow Leasing Program? 



• The program is slow-moving. Like the private party leasing program, people are not 

 taking advantage of a good opportunity. If there were leases in place, there would be 

 some critical protection in place — in wet years nobody cares... FWP has a lot of 

 constraints; maybe it could be made more flexible for them. 



• There's lots of "folderol" (sp?) the department has to go through to get a lease. Maybe 

 the process could be made less burdensome. 



• I hesitate to make suggestions imtil I can discuss with my Board. 



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