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• Board Meeting Date: 11/18/2007
• Description: CF Section – Proposed Statute Revisions/Legislation within the 2008 Projects Bill
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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3 SECTION 20. Collaborative recreational ro'ects rant ro ram - a ro riation. 1
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4 In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
5 Colorado water conservation board construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department
6 of natural resources, for allocation to the Colorado water conservation board, for the fiscal year
7 beginning July 1, 2008, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much thereof as
8 m.ay be necessary, for the board to develop and implement a competitive grant program to assist
9 local governmental entities in promoting non-consumptive use of water resources within their
10 communities by building whitewater parks. The board, in consultation with interested local
11 governments will develop the detailed grant program design.
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13 (2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain available for the
14 designated purposes until the project is completed.
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17 SECTION 21. Wild and scenic rivers alternative study -appropriation. (1) In addition
18 to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Colorado water
19 conservation board construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department of natural
20 resources, for allocation to the Colorado water conservation board, for the fiscal year beginning
21 July 1, 2008, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), or so much thereof as may be
22 necessary, for the board to participate with the Colorado river water conservation district, the
23 northern Colorado water conservancy district, Denver water department, and the United States
24 bureau of land management in facilitating the process to evaluate whether eligible streams under
25 the wild and scenic rivers act are suitable for wild and scenic designation. Wild and scenic
26 designations could affect Colorado's ability to fully utilize its compact entitlements, but could also
27 be used to protect certain water dependent resources.
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29 (2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain available for the
30 designated purposes until the project is completed.
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33 SECTION 22. High resolution gridded sublimation estimate study -appropriation.
34 (1) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
35 Colorado water conservation board construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department
36 of natural resources, for allocation to the Colorado water conservation board, for the fiscal year
37 beginning July 1, 2008, the sum of up to sixty five thousand dollars ($65,000), or so much thereof
38 as maybe necessary, for the board to participate with the Unites States geological survey in a study
39 to provide high resolution estimates of processes that remove moisture from snowpack by
40 developing and testing a relatively low-cost network of instruments for measuring snowpack
41 moisture losses in the Colorado river watershed west of the continental divide and in the
42 headwaters of the south platte river basin. The study will have broad applicability to other
43 Colorado river basins and the results will be used to more accurately estimate watershed runoff.
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45 (2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain available for the
46 designated purposes until the project is completed.
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