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To the greatest extent possible, Board appointees are persons experienced in water resource management, water project financing, engineering, planning, and development of water projects, water law, irrigated farming and/or ranching. No more than five appointees can be members of the same political party. By statute, six voting members constitute a quorum for the conduct of business, with six affumative votes needed for the Board to take a position on any matter. . Statutory authorities and responsibilities of the Board and Board Staff are defined in 37-60 and 37-92 C.R.S. The specific authorities are presented in Section A. The role of the Board, as defined in the Statute, includes: . Establishing policy to address state water issues . Exercising the exclusive authority of the Board to hold instream and natural lake level water rights to protect and improve the environment . Mediating and facilitating resolutions of disputes between basins and water interests . Maintaining and upholding fiduciary responsibilities related to the management of state resources including, but not limited to, the Construction Fund and the Severance Tax Trust Fund . Representing citizens within individual basins . Identifying, prioritizing and implementing water development projects to be funded using its Funds and when necessary, recommending such projects for approval by the General Assembly . Making Findings and Recommendations concerning applications for water rights for Recreational In-channel Diversions and defending its decisions in water courts . Making decisions regarding Watershed Protection Fund grants, upholding fiduciary responsibilities related to the Fund and implementing its own river restoration projects designed to help the CWeB accomplish its missio~__________ _----- . Supportine the on-eoine implementation of the Water for the 21.'[ Century ____:"'. h____ Act _ __ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ ___ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _____ _ _ ____ ___ _ _ _______ _ u____ _ _ _ ____ _ _ __ h_ _ _ _ _ _ h____ _ ___ ___ __ _ _h__ _ _ __ _ ___ _ _ h_ - -- . Distributine Water Development Fund Grants and Loans . Formatted: Font: Font color: Auto Formatted: Bullets and Numbering Formatted: Superscript Formatted: Font: Font color: Auto I J_d_~~~m~~_~~c.>>_~_ ~r ~_W~~~~_ _~~s~~~~~_ _ h___ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _h_n _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ h__ _ __ _ h__ __ _ __ ____ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ / { Deleted: , All Colorado citizens are the CWCB's customers. Among these citizens, the CWCB works closely with: water users, local governments, the Executive Director of the DNR. the Director of Compact Negotiations. other federal and state government entities, municipal and domestic water supplie~ _<:i_i.t~~ _~~ _~C?~C?~~~ _l?~~P.~!l~~_~,__igig~!!~~ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ - - - { Deleted: districts, water conservancy and conservation districts, environmental and other special interest groups, private (for profit) entities, and special districts. Page 3 of 5 .