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<br />In 1973 I the Colorado Legislature <br />created the Instream Flow Program <br />with the passage of Senate Bill 97: <br /> <br />"Further recognizing the need to correlate the <br />activities of mankind with some reasonable <br />preservation of the natural environment, the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board is hereby <br />vested with the authority, on behalf of the <br />people of the state of Colorado, to appropriate <br />... such waters of natural streams and lakes as <br />may be required to preserve the natural <br />environment to a reasonable degree. " <br />