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<br />~'~r=Y::~-~~~~~~~:-~~-~ <~~~"":_~';-:~--~~-;-"~~-- ---~-~~=- ~-Y~:..-_ <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />/ <br />~ <br />tt <br />~--- <br />~ - <br /> <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />HoeSE BILL 00-1438 <br /> <br />BY REPRESENTATIVES Taylor, Alexander, Coleman, George, Gotlieb, <br />Hefley, Hoppe, Kaufman, ~1cKay, Scott, Smith, Webster, and Young~ <br />also SENATORS \Vattenberg and Hernandez. <br /> <br />CO~CER..'\ING REPEAL OF THE PO\VER OF THE COLORADO WATER <br />CO~SERV ATIONBOARD REGARDINGCONDmONAL W ATERRIGHTSFOR <br />~STREAM FLOW USES IN THE Y AJ"fPA RIVER BASIN. <br /> <br />Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of eo lor ado: <br /> <br />SECTIO~ 1. 37-92-102 (3) (c.5), Colorado Revised Statutes, is <br />amended to read: <br /> <br />37-92-102. Legislative declaration - basic tenets of Colorado <br />water law. (3) Further recognizing the need to correlate the activities of <br />mankind with some reasonable preservation of the natural environment, the <br />Colorado water conservation board is hereby vested Vllith the exclusive <br />authority, on behalf of the people of the state of Colorado, to appropriate <br />in a manner consistent with sections 5 and 6 of article XV1 of the state <br />constitution, such waters of natural streams and lakes as the board <br />determines may be required for minimum stream flows or for _natural <br />surface water levels or volwnes for natural lakes to preserve the natural <br />environment to a reasonable degree. In the adjudication of water rights <br />pursuant to this article and other applicable law, no other person or entity <br /> <br />Capital letters indicate new material added to existing statutes; dashes through words indicate <br />deletions from existing statutes and such material not part of act <br /> <br />~-- -.::~ <br /> <br />--=-- ~---- -~------=-- <br /> <br />- --~- ---~ <br /> <br />-~ <br />