SB 96-64 Signed Bill

• ISF Bill Number: SB96-64
• Description: Modifying procedures and endangered species
• ISF - Doc Type: Final Signed Legislation

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SENATE BIll 96-064. .

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BY SENATORS Norton~ Ament,: R. Powers, and Tebedo;
al so REP~ESENTATIVE_S Jerke;'Ma~tii'I,: Reeser, and 'Sull ivant.

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CONCERNING INSTREAM FLOW APPROPRIATIONS OF THE COLORADO WATER
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Be it enactM ;,"lthe'.fGeneral' Assembly. of' the. State of Colorado:
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. .: ::SEc~fOtr_f..~._'3iL:9~:io2{ t~orado; Rev-ised st~tuie~,t'1990 Repl.
VA 1 . - " as .~aiiien(lea ".' is' ameilCled BY: :THf::ADDllION OF A .NEW .SUBSECTION
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, 37~92~102.~ -' :legislative.;'declaratiori . - basic .tenets of
Colorado~::Wa~er 'law~;. (4f --~y" A~PROPRIATION -MADE::-.PURSUANT TO
SUBSECTIO~ _ .(3) : OF 'THfS SE.CTION SHAll .AlSO BE SUBJECT TO THE
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(a) UTILIZING A PUB~rt NOTICE AND COMMENT PROCEDURE, THE
BOARD, IN. ITS DISCRETION, MAY DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT TO
APPROPRIATE' MINIMUM STREAM FLOWS OR' NATURAL lAKE lEVELS, OR
DECREASE SUCH'. AN APPROPRIATION, TO PRESERVE THE NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT TO A REASONABLE DEGREE. - THE BOARD MAY ADOPT
CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO AN APPROPRIATION OR DECREASED
APPROPRIATION, MAY FILE OR WITHDRAW STATEMENTS OF OPPOSITION IN
WATER COURT.CASES, AND ENTER INTO STIPULATIONS.FOR DECREES OR
OHlER FORMS OF CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS, INCLUDING ENfORCEMENT
AGREEMENTS, THAT iT DETERMINES WIll PRESERVE THE NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT TO A REASONA8lE~DEGREE. All CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS
AND STIPULATIONS _ENTE:RElf INTO' BY THE BOARD PRIOR TO .THE EFFECTIVE
DATE OF THIS, SUBSECTION (4) REGARDING. ENFORCEMENT OF ITS
APPROPRI"ATIONS SHALL BE GIVEN FUll FORCE AND EFFECr. ANY. INCREASE
TO AN EXISTING MINIMUM STREAM FLOW OR NATURAL LAKE lEVEL

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