Topics to be offered include:
                    - Energy - operational hypothetical
                    - Acquisition of oil and gas properties
                    - Creating a year-round water supply
                    - Ag financing
                    - Case law and legislative update for water law
                    - Environmental issues that affect the energy business
                    - Selling/buying the farm/ranch
                    - Oil shale
                    - Livestock law
                    - Coalbed methane
                    - Ethics 2000 - the NEW ethics rules


Agenda:

Friday, June 22, 2007

8:30 a.m. - Registration and Breakfast

8:55 – 9:00 a.m. - Welcome from CBA Section Chairs

General Session:

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Case Study - ENERGY

Discussion of issues relating to the change and expansion of use of an historic oil and gas
production and processing facility, including: acquisition of agricultural land on which to expand,
reasonable accommodation of land, drilling costs, acquisition of oil and gas properties; water-rights
issues, including creating a year-round water supply, discharge versus consumptive use, water
quality and temperature; and environmental due diligence, including due diligence process, practical
considerations, checklist and substantive legal areas of inquiry, including CERCLA, RCRA, CWA,
CAA, tank regulation and NEPA.

Moderated by Dean C. Miller, Esq.,
Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, Denver, Colorado
Presented by: Lisa A. Decker, Esq., Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Denver, Colorado;
Randall J. Feuerstein, Esq., Dufford & Brown PC, Denver, Colorado;
Kristin H. Moseley, Esq., Porzak Browning & Bushong LLP, Boulder, Colorado


10:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. - Energy Case Study (cont.)

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch Break

 

Individual Tracks:
Note: Attendees are allowed and encouraged to float between tracks on both days

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Ag & Rural Law
Ag Financing: Economics, Bankruptcies, Workouts
Presented by Robert D. Clark, Esq., Douglas County Attorney's Office, Castle Rock, Colorado; and
Norman Dalsted, Professor, Colorado State University, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Fort Collins, Colorado
Moderated by Michael J. Guyerson, Esq., Onsager Staelin & Guyerson LLC, Denver, Colorado


Water Law

Case Law and Legislative Update
Presented by Peter C. Fleming, Esq., Colorado River Water Conservation District, Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Environmental Law and Natural Resources & Energy Law

Environmental Issues that Affect the Energy Business, Including Air, Navigable Waters, Rapanos, and Stormwater
Presented by Colin G. Harris, Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Boulder, Colorado; and
Paul R. Tourangeau, Director, Air Pollution Control Division, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO


2:45 – 3:00 p.m.  Break

3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Ag & Rural Law

Selling/Buying the Farm/Ranch:  Some Issues to Consider, Both Practical and Legal
Presented by Willis V. Carpenter, Esq., Carpenter & Klatskin PC, Denver, Colorado

Water Law

Water Issues in Oil Shale Development
Presented by James R. Montgomery, Esq., Moses Wittemyer Harrison & Woodruff PC, Boulder, Colorado 

Environmental Law and Natural Resources & Energy Law

Environmental Issues that Affect the Energy Business (continued)

4:30 – 5:45 p.m.  Reception

Saturday, June 23, 2007


Individual Tracks:

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Ag & Rural Law

Livestock Law
Presented by Justin Cumming, Esq., Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Denver, Colorado; and
Kathie T. Riley, Esq., Kathie Troudt Riley PC, Loveland, Colorado


Water Law

Coalbed Methane
Presented by Sarah A. Klahn, Esq., White & Jankowski LLP, Denver, Colorado

Environmental Law and Natural Resources & Energy Law

Oil Shale; Roan Plateau Development
Presented by Martha P. Allbright, Esq., Patton Boggs LLP, Denver, Colorado

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.  Break

General Session: 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Ethics 2000 – The New Ethics Rules
Presented by Justice Michael L. Bender, Colorado Supreme Court, Denver, Colorado;
Cynthia F. Covell, Alperstein & Covell, PC, Denver, Colorado; and
Honorable Shelley A. Hill, Routt County Combined Court, Steamboat Springs, Colorado


11:45 a.m.  Adjourn


Enjoy countless family activities, including world class fly fishing, hiking, golf,
pro rodeo series, hot air balloon rides, whitewater rafting, rock climbing,
mountain biking, kayaking , gondola rides, and much, much more!