BOARD00167 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 5/22/2007
• Description: WSP Section - Platte River Recovery Updates
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

federal law, or are candidate species or are likely to become candidate
species as determined by the United States fish and wildlife service.
Transfers $6 million on or after July 1,2007, $7 million on or after July
I, 2008, and $6 million on or after July I, 2009, from the operational
account of the severance tax trust fund to the capital account of the trust
fund.

1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
2 SECTION 1. Legislative declaration. (1) Pursuant to:
3 (a) Section 24-33-111 (2), Colonido Revised Statutes, the species
4 conservation trust fund has been created in the state treasury to fund
5 programs designed to conserve native species that have been listed as
6 threatened or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate
7 species or are likely to become candidate species as determined by the
8 United States fish and wildlife service;

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(b) Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, the
executive director ofthe department ofna'tural resources, after consulting

11 with the Colorado water conservation board and its director, the wildlife
12 commission, and the director ofthe division of wildlife, has prepared and
13 delivered to the general assembly a species conservation eligibility list
14 describing programs and associated costs that are eligible to receive
15 funding from the species conservation trust fund; and

16 (c) Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to

17 obligating funds from the species conservation trust fund, the species
18 conservation eligibility list is subject to modification and adoption
19 through the passage of a bill.
20 SECTION 2. Eligibility list - approval. (I) The general

21 assembly deems the recommended expenditures described in the species

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conservation eligibility list to be in the interest of the people of the state.

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