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1 specific improvement projects to reduce flood damage, restore the <br />2 ri arian environment create recreation o ortunities, im rove water <br />p ~ PP P <br />3 quality, and other associated environmental watershed and floodplain <br />4 enhancements. <br />5 (2) The amounts appropriated in this section are in addition to <br />6 amounts appropriated previously for the Cache La Poudre river floodway <br />7 project. The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall <br />8 remain available for the designated purposes until the project is . <br />9 completed. <br />10 SECTION 16. Climate change effects on Colorado water <br />11 resources study -appropriation. (1) In addition to any other <br />12 appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the <br />13 Colorado water conservation board construction fund not otherwise <br />14 .appropriated, to the department of natural resources, for allocation to the <br />15 Colorado water conservation board, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, <br />16 2008, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much <br />17 thereof as may be necessary, for the board to begin developing and <br />18 implementing a water adaptation strategy to address potential impacts <br />19 from climate change and variability on Colorado's water resources. The <br />20 study will include an analysis of how and why climate may change in the <br />21 future and how that may affect the resource upon which the water <br />22 industry depends. <br />23 (2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall <br />24 remain available for the designated purposes until the project is <br />25 completed. <br />26 SECTION 17. Purgatoire river channel capacity and <br />27 improvement study -appropriation. (1) In addition to any other <br />-14- HB08-1346 <br />