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• Board Meeting Date: 7/11/2007
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Colorado as a part of the 2008 Energy & Water Appropriations bill. He is a member of
the Appropriations Subcommittee.

The following projects for Colorado were included in the bill at Senator Allard's
request:

. $1 million for the Colorado Center for Sustainable Energy at the Colorado School
of Mines;
. $1 million for Ultra Dense Memory for Supercomputing;
· $1 million to place the Northern Hemisphere Pierre Auger Observatory in
eastern Colorado;
· $500,000 for the Rocky Flats Cold War in Arvada;
. $63 million for the Animas-La Plata project in Durango;
· $149,000 to complete the Army Corps feasibility study on Fountain Creek;
. $1.679 million for Operations and Maintenance at Chatfield Reservoir, including
a direction that the Army Corps continue work on the Chatfield Reallocation
Study;
. $1.28 million for Operations and Maintenance at Cherry Creek Reservoir;
. $1.82 million for Operations and Maintenance at Trinidad Lake Reservoir
. $275,000 to continue the Army Corps feasibility study at Chatfield, Cherry Creek
and Bear Creek Reservoirs;
. Priority designation under the Army Corps Continuing Authorities Program for
the Arkansas River Habitat Restoration.

Also included in the bill was:

. $500,000 for the Council of Resource Tribes;
. $275,000 for a biodiesel facility in Costilla County;
. $340,000 to complete the Army Corps feasibility study for Cache La Poudre;
. $100,000 to begin an Army Corps reconnaissance study on South Boulder Creek;
. $283,000 for Operations and Maintenance work at Bear Creek Reservoir;
. $5.72 million Operations and Maintenance work at John Martin Reservoir;

Priority designation under the Army Corps Continuing Authorities Program was
included for the following projects: Goose Creek, Lower Boulder Creek and Tamarisk
eradication treatments.

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