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Since 2016, Northern Water has been working with Larimer County on an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP). While all of the work in support of this IGA has been performed in accordance with Larimer County’s 1041 permit requirements, Larimer County and the NISP team have received questions from the public as to the adequacy of an IGA compared to the requirements of the 1041 permit. In order to put the question to rest and pursue a more straightforward permit, Northern Water is electing to pursue a traditional 1041 permit rather than a 1041 IGA. The 1041 review was created by the Colorado General Assembly to allow local governments, such as Larimer County, to review local impacts from projects of statewide concern.
By migrating the current cooperative work between Northern Water and Larimer County to the 1041 permit process, it will allow the formal process identified in county code to take place: Submission of applications for the pipeline conveyance and recreation opportunities, opportunities for public input to the Planning Commission and Board of County Commissioners, and then action from the County Commissioners.
As part of the 1041 permit, two components of the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) are being reviewed. These include:
The other project components, their environmental effects and proposed mitigation of those impacts are being analyzed and permitted through additional federal and state regulatory processes outside of the 1041 permit as described in the permitting and mitigation attachment and timeline. Those processes include multiple public engagement and comment periods to gain feedback on the project as a whole. Northern Water has also completed additional outreach on the project as described in the NISP Public Engagement History Memo.
The review of these two components and the development of the associated 1041 permit is being prepared consistent with Larimer County Land Use Code requirements.