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

appropriated, out of any moneys in the Colorado water conservation board
construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department of natural
resources, for allocation to the Colorado water conservation board, for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, the sum of up to one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000) not to exceed ten 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 proj ect
designed to 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 as mitigation of impacts to
fens. The proj ect scope of work shall be as developed by Colorado
mountain college in 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 purposes until the project is completed.
SECTION 20. Community-based approaches to forest
restoration - appropriation. (1) In addition to any other appropriation,
there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in 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 l, 2007, the sum of one million dollars
($1,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for purposes
authorized 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 purposes until the purposes have been
achieved.
SECTION 21. 36-20-113 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
amended to read:
36-20-113. Permit fee. (1) The fee for each permit or the renewal
thereof under section 36-20-114 shall be at least one hundred dollars. If the
operation is a commercial project, the director shall set a fee that is
sufficient to pay the direct costs of review of the permit application, public
hearings regarding the application, and monitoring of permit operations
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