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• Bill Number: SB07-122
• Year: 2007
• Title: Concerning the funding of Colorado water conservation board projects, and making appropriation in connection therewith.
• Legislation - Doc Type: Construction Fund Bill

1518Water and IrrigationCh. 352
moneys in the Colorado water conservationboardconstructionfund not otherwise
appropriated, to the department of natural resources, for allocation to the Colorado
waterconservationboard,forthe fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, the sum of one
million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000), or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for the board to develop and implement a competitive grant program to
advance variousagricultural transfer methodsas alternatives to permanent
agricultural dry-up in the South Platte and Arkansas river basins, including but not
limited to, interruptible water supply agreements, long-term agricultural land
fallowing, water banks, reduced consumptive use through efficiency or cropping
while maintaining historic return flows, and purchase by end users with leaseback
under defined conditions.The board, in consultation with the basin water users,
shall develop the detailed grant program design.
(2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain
available for the designated purposesuntil the project iscompleted.
SECTION 19.Rocky Mountain fen demonstration project - appropriation.
(1) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any
moneys in the Colorado water conservation boardconstructionfundnot otherwise
appropriated, to the departmentofnaturalresources,for allocation to the Colorado
water conservationboard,forthefiscalyearbeginningJuly 1, 2007, the sum of up
to one hundred thousand dollars($100,000) not to exceedten percent of the total
project cost, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the board to participate
with the Colorado mountain college - timberline campus, in a demonstration project
designedto explore the extent to which the harvest and transplantation of
slow-forming organic peat soils, from an area of potential impact to specifically
prepared receiver sites, can serve asmitigation of impactsto fens. The project
scope of work shall be as developed by Colorado mountain collegein cooperation
with the city of Aurora and the Pueblo board of water works.
(2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain
available for the designated purposesuntil the project iscompleted.
SECTION 20.Community-based approaches to forest restoration-
(1) In addition to any other appropriation, thereis hereby
appropriation.
appropriated, out of any moneysin the perpetual base account of the severance tax
trust fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department of natural resources, for
allocation to the division of forestry, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, the
sum ofonemilliondollars($1,000,000), orsomuchthereofasmaybe necessary,
for purposesauthorized by House Bill 07-1130, enacted at the first regular session
of the sixty-sixth general assembly;except that those purposes shall be limited to
protecting water supplies.
(2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain
available for the designated purposesuntil the purposeshave been achieved.
36-20-113 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, isamended to read:
SECTION 21.
(1) The feefor each permit or the renewal thereof under
36-20-113. Permit fee.
section 36-20-114 shall be at least one hundred dollars. Ifthe operation is a
commercial project, the director shall set a fee that issufficient to pay the direct