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pretty hard -- it’s pretty hard to pay back money when you don't <br />get to do the project. <br />And there's a significant amount of money available to <br />borrow. One of the arguments that they made was that they <br />didn't need another pool of money to borrow from, that the <br />Colorado -- the Water Resource and Power Development Authority <br />could loan up to $500 million per e ntity, and they still can. <br />There's a lot of money there you can borrow, low interest money, <br />but there hasn't been -- there hasn’t been much -- I won't say any. <br />There hasn't been much of a source of funds to get you through <br />fulfilling environmental compliance . <br />The Water Conservation Board has some funds that they use. <br />They have some conditionally - based to make some loans and <br />grants. The Water Resource and [unintelligible] Authorities <br />makes loans. Because of the severance tax coming in as well as <br />it is right now, there's extra funds left over in the <br />Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund. The money <br />is already in the trust fund. We are creating another account <br />within that to transfer some of these funds into for the purpose <br />of making grants. <br />A nd if you look at the bills that we have, we talk about <br />the different ways these funds could be used. Competitive <br />grants on page 3, line 15; competitive grants, environmental <br />compliance and feasibility studies, technical assistance <br />- 2 - <br /> <br />