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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Good Afternoon-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Enclosed is a link to Oregon’s June 2012 Draft Integrated Water Resources Strategy (and Draft Executive Summary). This is the version that we plan to present to the Water Resources Commission on August 2 to consider for adoption. You’ll see quite a few changes in the document since last December’s draft. These changes are the result of input from IWRS Advisory Groups, the Water Resources Commission, and public comment . We appreciate the hard work our stakeholders and partners have put into this document during the past three years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Link to draft IWRS: <a href="http://www.wrd.state.or.us/owrd/LAW/docs/2012_06_22_draft_IWRS.pdf">http://www.wrd.state.or.us/owrd/LAW/docs/2012_06_22_draft_IWRS.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Link to draft IWRS Executive Summary: <a href="http://www.wrd.state.or.us/owrd/LAW/docs/2012_06_22_draft_Executive_Summary.pdf">http://www.wrd.state.or.us/owrd/LAW/docs/2012_06_22_draft_Executive_Summary.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Following adoption of the IWRS, agency staff will prepare to present the IWRS to the 77<sup>th</sup> Oregon Legislative Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Brenda Bateman, IWRS Project Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Brenda Ortigoza Bateman, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Senior Policy Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Water Resources Department<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>725 Summer </span><ns0:place><ns0:City><span style='color:black'>St.</span></ns0:City><span style='color:black'>, </span><ns0:State><span style='color:black'>NE</span></ns0:State></ns0:place><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><ns0:place><ns0:State><span style='color:black'>Salem, OR 97301-1271</span></ns0:State></ns0:place><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Tel: 503-986-0879<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>E-mail: <a href="mailto:brenda.o.bateman@state.or.us">brenda.o.bateman@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>