HB 00-1438 Signed Bill

• ISF Bill Number: HB00-1438
• Description: Repeal board's authority to acquire conditional water rights
• ISF - Doc Type: Final Signed Legislation

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HOUSE BILL 00-1438

BY REPRESENTATIVES Taylor, Alexander, Coleman, George, Gotlieb,
Hefley, Hoppe, Kaufman. McKay, Scott, Smith, Webster, and Young;
also SENATORS Wattenberg and Hernandez.

CONCERNING REPEAL OF THE POWER. OF TIlE COLORADO WATER.
CONSERVATIONBOARDREGARDINGCONDmONAL W ATERIIGIiI'SfOR.
INSTREAM FLOW USES IN THE Y AMPA IUVER. BASIN.

Be it enDcted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECI10N 1. 37-92-102 (3) (c.5), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
amended to read:

37-92-102. Legislative declaration - basic tenets of Colorado
water law. (3) Further recognizing the need to correlate the activities of
mankind with some reasonable preservation of the natural environment, the
Colorado water conservation board is hereby vested with the exclusive
authority, on behalf of the people of the state of Colorado, to appropriate
in a manner consistent with sections 5 and 6 of article XVI of the state
constitution, such waters of natural streams md lakes as the board
determines may be required for minimum stream flows or for natural
surface water levels or volumes for natural1akes to preserve the natural
environment to a reasonable degree. In the adjudication of water rights
pursuant to this uncle and other applicable law, no other person or entity

Capitallcaers indicate new mataialldded to ec.i~", SWuta. dasbI:s tbmu&h 1IUIdI i~
deletioDl from exiJV"IlWDta IIId such marerw DOl pen of act.

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