BOARD00055 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/2006
• Description: IBCC Director's Report - Interbasin Compact Committee Annual Report to the House of Representatives Com. On Agriculture, Livestock, Natural Resources, and Senate Com. On Agriculture, Energy, Natural
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

OTHER AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ROUNDTABLES LEGALLY BINDING AND
ENFORCEABLE; AND

(d) As DEEMED APPROPRlATE BY THE INTERBASIN COMPACT
COMMITTEE, PROCEDURES FOR INTEGRATING THE PROCESSES ESTABLISHED
IN THIS ARTICLE WITH EXISTING PLANNING, PERMITTING, AND PUBLIC
PARTICIPATION PROCESSES RELATED TO THE CONSERVATION AND
DEVELOPMENT OF WATER WITHIN COLORADO; EXCEPT THAT NO PROVISION
OF THE CHARTER SHALL SUPERCEDE, IMPAIR, OR OTHERWISE MODIFY THE
AUTHORITY, JURISDICTION, OR PERMITTING POWERS OF COUNTIES OR OTHER
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.

(4) COMMENCING IN 2006, THE COMMITTEE SHALL SUBMIT AN
ANNUAL REPORT TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON
AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, AND NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE SENATE
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND ENERGY BY
OCTOBER 31 CONCERNING THE STATUS OF COMPACT NEGOTIATIONS.

(5) THE COMMITTEE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A STATE PUBLIC BODY
FOR PURPOSES OF THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW, PART 4 OF ARTICLE 6 OF TITLE
24, c.R.S.

37-75-106. Public education - outreach. (1) THE INTERBASIN
COMPACT COMMITTEE SHALL DEVELOP A PUBLIC EDUCA llON, P ARTICIPA llON,
AND OUTREACH WORKING GROUP.

(2) THE PUBLIC EDUCATION, PARTICIPATION, AND OUTREACH
WORKING GROUP SHALL:

(a) CREATE A PROCESS TO INFORM, INVOLVE, AND EDUCATE THE
PUBLIC ON THE INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMITTEE'S ACTIVITIES AND
PROGRESS OF THE INTERBASIN COMPACT NEGOTIATIONS; AND

(b) CREATE A MECHANISM BY WHICH PUBLIC INPUT AND FEEDBACK
CAN BE RELAYED TO THE INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMITTEE AND COMPACT
NEGOTIA TORS.

SECTION 2. Appropriation. In addition to any other
appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
operational account of the severance tax trust fund established pursuant to
section 39-29-109 (l). (a) (II), Colorado Revised Statutes, not otherwise

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