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.Aspect CONSULTING Dfi, `: I'IAie L E-''; I , CWRE Principal Water Resource Engineer Heading up Aspect's Water Resources Practice, Dan Haller's background includes facilitation of complex projects and EDUCATION workgroups, management of storage and conservation MS, Environmental Engineering, projects, water rights transfers, and water system design and Washington State University, 1996 financial planning experience. Working from Aspect's Yakima BS, Civil Engineering, Washington State Office, Dan is a state -recognized water rights expert and University, 1994 certified water right examiner fluent in the water code, has REGISTRAMN worked on complex new water rights and water right transfers, licensed Professional Engineer, Civil, WA Certified Water Rights Examiner, WA coordinated water banks, and helped buy and sell water rights. Before joining Aspect, Dan spent more than a decade with the Department of Ecology where he worked on hundreds of water rights and managed multi-million dollar grant projects for the Office of Columbia River. Kittitas County Water Bank Facilitation and Formation ( Ellensburg, WA Dan assisted County with implementation of its water bank. Dan facilitated Kittitas County Public Health Department's 20 -person Citizen's Advisory Committee tasked with providing guidance to the County on water quantity metria forthe County's water bank. Dan helped guide the Committee through topics including in-house domestic use, lawn/garden evapotranspiration, and consumptive use standards to avoid Impairment. Dan also worked with the Committee and County to develop the business rules of the Kittitas County water bank, including mitigation and metering standards, and a two-tiered mitigation program to meet the needs of the County and community. Kittitas County Water Bank Acquisition and Permitting I Ellensburg, WA In support of their water bank, Dan has worked to secure water right transfers and water right permitting authority for Kittitas County. This work has included permitting water right transfers on eight acquisitions throughout Kittitas County to seed the County's mitigation program. Additionally, Dan assisted the County with implementation of a general permit program to allow subdivisions and cluster development to obtain water right authority from the bank. Dan has successfully led the effort to obtain two water right general permits to support this effort, the first of their kind, which other counites (Chelan, Spokane) are now emulating. Little Spokane River Water Bank and RCW 90.94 Exempt Well Compliance I Spokane, WA Dan facilitated the WRIA 55 Planning Unit to evaluate options to develop a water right and water supply solutions in the Little Spokane River basin to offset strearnflow impacts from exempt wells. Dan's efforts Include assisting the Planning Unit with options to offset exempt well impacts over the next 20 years, and water right acquisition and water supply options to mitigate impacts (e.g. managed aquifer recharge, storage, acquisitions). Dan also assisted Spokane County with multiple water right acquisitions to seed its water bank. Walla Walla Basin Flow Study, Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership (WWWMP) and Walla Walla Basin Watershed Council (WWBWC) I Walla Walla, WA Dan is working with the WWWMP and the WWBWC to facilitate a steering committee to improve flows In the Walla Walla River. Dan's facilitation includes coordination of several dozen stakeholders, documentation of efforts by numerous technical workgroups, pairing of projects to meet overall flow objectives, and overall task planning around future environmental review, communication and outreach, and stakeholder participation. Dan is also part of the technical project team evaluating permitting and design for storage, pump exchange, and conservation projects to meet Flow Study goals. Hailer I Resume Page 1 1