So as it was mentioned a little while ago all of you know Larry Walkoviak retired on September 3rd.
That was a little bit in advance of what we were thinking was going to happen. You may not be aware that my colleague and peer
Ann Gold, Deputy Regional Director also chose to retire on September 3rd.
At that point I became very lonely in the front office here in Salt Lake.
I was working for Bob Quint, he invited me to take a rotation to be the Acting Regional Director.
Which I've done, and that'll be on a little bit of a
round robin rotation I'll have it until the middle of November,
after which Jennifer McCloskey who happens to be with us today she's in the back of the room with her hand up over there
she'll be Acting Regional Director after I take a turn.
then David Palumbo who's.. many of you know David he's from the Lower Colorado Region
is lined up to come up after Jennifer and then Reed Murry who also is on the wall over there
who most of you know Reed will take a rotation as Acting Regional Director.
That will get us until about April, hopefully we'll have a Regional Director at that time.
But if we don't I'm sure Bob and Lowell will come up with some other folks to fill in.
Just sharing a little bit, folks have expressed interest in the Regional Director's position, and I know we got some really great people
that are looking at the position here and anxious to see when the vacancy will come out.
With reguard to Acting Deputy Regional Director, were also doing those on rotations Jennifer Faler
has come up from Albuquerque to take a rotation, her turn will be up the end of October
I've invited Barry Longwell to take a rotation from Four Corners Construction office he's here and his will start now
he'll go until right up before CRWUA, Colorado River Water Users,
than if we still need some one else, Mary Halverson here out of the regional office will take a rotation.
So we're in the midst of filling the
Deputy Regional Director position was vacated by Ann Gold
so we're well along the way to getting that position filled,
expect that to happen over the next few weeks,
month that the longest.
We have selected some issues here in the Upper Colorado region to get a cross section of things that are going on across the region.
Some of you may not be aware of our area of responsibility when we talk about the Upper Colorado,
obviously were upstream of Glen Canyon Dam, in the great basin so any of the facilities Reclamation has responsibility for those areas
makes sense. What doesn't get linked up alot of times our responsibility on the Rio Grande drainage down to El Paso Texas
and then the Peco drainage, so pretty much the state of New Mexico and up into Colorado.
Upper Colorado Region has responsibility for. So tring to take a cross section of issues we've identified some I'll just walk through real
quickly and will go through those in a little more detail. We're going to talk about the Middle Rio Grande
ESA consultation Jennifer Faler will cover that.
We're going to talk about Navajo Gallup water supply project large project going into New Mexico, Barry Longwell will cover that.
Long-term experimental and management plan that we affectionately call LTEMP,
Beverly is gonna take a few minutes on LTEMP.
We've got some ongoing work up on A V Watkins raising the dam up
north of Odgen, Wayne Pullan will spend some time on, and then we've invited Reed Murray who
actually works for the Department of Interior not part of Reclamation but we've invited
Reed to take a few minutes and go over some of the completion at Central Utah project completion act issues that
cuts across a lot of our stakeholder here.
If your particular project wasn't identified on this list of issues, it dosent mean is not important to us, we could have talked about
drought contingency planning, we could have talked about the operating agreement
Elephant Butte, title transfer upcoming for the Provo Reservoir Canal, so we have a number of issues across the
region, but as I mentioned we are trying to cut across
the whole region, give you a sense of something. So what that Jennifer if you wouldn't mind, come up and we will
jump right into it just walk through that. After Reed will turn it back to Dan.