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• Board Meeting Date: 11/14/2006
• Description: OWCDP Section - Proposed Revisions to Guidelines for the Water Efficiency Grant Program
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Adopted by the Board July 18,2005
Revised by the Board January 24, 2006

GUIDELINES FOR THE WATER EFFICIENCY GRANT PROGRAM

1. Background

House Bill 05-1254 adopted by the 2005 Colorado General Assembly, created the Water
Efficiency Grant Program Cash Fund, which will be administered by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board ("Board"). This Fund, which will consist of up to $500,000 per year for each
of the next three fiscal years (2006, 2007, and 2008) may be distributed to the following:

. Covered entities to aid in achieving the goals outlined in their locally adopted Water
Conservation Plans; and
. Public and private agencies whose primary purpose is to promote the benefits of water
resource conservation for education and outreach aimed at demonstrating the benefits of
water efficiency.

Further, the Colorado General Assembly has indicated that water conservation means water use
efficiency, wise water use, water transmission and distribution system efficiency, and supply
substitution. The objective of water conservation is a long-term increase in the productive use of
water supply in order to satisfy water supply needs without compromising desired water services.

Nate that this is a short term funding program that may re(juire the guidelines to be
revisited regularly to allow far revisions and updates from time to time as applieant
demand and Board needs dietate.

2. Intent of the Board

It is the explicit intent of the Board to work with public and private agencies, water users and
local entities to increase meaningful water conservation in the state by:

. Increasing the number of local entities with CWCB approved water conservation plans;
. Improving the nature and breadth of water conservation practices at the locallevei; and
. Increasing the amount of technical assistance that the CWCB provides to local entities.

With these objectives in mind, the Board intends to administer the Water Efficiency Grant
Program for the purpose of providing financial assistance to both: covered entities with locally
adopted Water Conservation Plan that have specified water efficiency (or savings) goals in
accordance with 937-60-126 CRS; and agencies that have as their primary purpose to promote
water resource conservation which desire to fund education and outreach aimed at demonstrating
the benefits of water efficiency.