January 2008 Minutes

• Board Meeting Date: 1/22/2008
• Description: Summary Minutes and Record of Decisions - January 22-23, 2008
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

the proposed statutory additions or changes. The Board approved the motion with the
following amendments:
(1) That the Boazd direct Staff to take the language developed at this Board meeting in
concept, incorporate it into the Projects Bill;
(2) The Board is able to review the proposed language before it goes to the Legislatt.cre;
(3) Staff is to address the language, "used in limited circumstances, but not limited".
(4) The legislation will require the Boazd to develop guidelines and criteria that will be
used to administer the acquisition program prior to any expenditures of this funding; and
(5) That future appropriations far acquisition be sufficient to refresh the fi:md annually
to a balance of 1 million. The motion was approved (9-1).
8c. CWCB Legislative Priorities and Recommendations -Tamarisk Control Grant Program
Action: After consultation with the Executive Director of the Department of Natural Resources,
Staff recommends that the following provision be included in the 2008 Projects Bill:
SECTION 28. Tamarisk control cost-sharing grant program -appropriation. (1) In
ut of an un-allocated
addition to an other a ro riation, there is hereby appropriated, o y
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moneys in the Severance Tax Trust Fund Operational account not otherwise appropriated,
to the Department of Natural Resources, for allocafion into the Colorado Water
Conservation Boazd construction fund, for the fiscal yeaz beginning July 1, 2008, the: sum
of up to one million dollars ($1,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, fear the
Board to fund a tamarisk control cost-sharing grant program; and (2) The money's
appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain available for the designated
purposes until the project in completed. There was a motion made by Geoff.Blakeslee
and secondex by John Rexlifer to approve Staff recommendation. All voting members
were present. The motion was approved unanimously (10-0}.
8d. CWCB Legislative Priorities and Recommendations -Water Conservation Guideliine and Plan
Clarifications
Action: A motion was made by Eric Wilkinson and seconded by Harris Sherman to approve Staff
recommendation regazding the :inclusion of statutory changes in the 2008 (:onstruction
Fund Projects Bill to achieve the Boazd's intent. The Staff has the authori:~ation to work
with the Executive Director's Office, the Governor's Offiice, and members of the General
Assembly regarding the specific language. The Staff shall have the authorization to
recommend the deletion of such statutory changes from the bill if their inclusion
endangers the bill's final passage. The Staff shall keep the Board members informed
regarding the progress of discussions regarding the proposed statutory change. The
Boazd requested that the following amendments be included in the motion:
Statute 37-60-126(4) C.R.S. is amended to read, (4} A Plan developed by a covered entity
°, pursuant to subsection (2) of this section shall, at a minimum, include the full evaluation
of the following plan elements..,The motion was approved unanimously (iQ-0).
8e. CWCB Legislative Priorities and Recommendations - Instream Flow Lessor Protection
Action: The CWCB Staff is recommending statutory revisions to protect water rights owners who
lease or otherwise contractually allow the CWCB to use all or a portion of their water
rights as instream flows to preserve or improve the natural environment to a reasonable
degree. These statutory revisions would apply to long term loans or leases of water and
`, would provide the same protection that HB 07-1012 provided to water rights owners who
temporarily loan or lease their water rights to the CWCB under section 37-83-102(2),
C.R.S. A motion was made by Eric Wilkinson and seconded by Harris Sherman to
approve Staff's above recommendation with the proposed amendments: that guidelines
and criteria be developed by CWCB to govern the administration of this program; that the
amendments to the proposed bill, as proposed in the amended Boazd handout, be
incorporated into the proposed legislation; and that the reference to a water right that may