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Permits a junior well diverter to withhold making replacements of well depletions otherwise required pursuant to a plan of augmentation during the nonirrigation season if the division engi neer determines that downstream senior reservoirs will fill even in the absence of such replacements. Requires such replacements to occur if the division engineer later determines that such reservoirs will not otherwise fill. Authorizes the state engineer to adopt a rule or the division engineers to adopt a policy for procedural requirements for applications to withhold the replacement of well depletions during nonirrigation season, including evidentiary requirements, notice, opportunity to comment, hearing s, whether formal or informal, and the right to an appeal. Status 02/01/2008 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources & Energy 03/05/2008 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources & Energy Postpone Indefinitely BILL SB08 - 168 CONCERNING THE SPECIES CONSERVATION TRUST FUND, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, APPROVING THE SPECIES CONSERVATION ELIGIBILITY LIST, ADJUSTING PREVIOU SLY - APPROVED TRANSFERS AND APPROVALS, AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS. Short Title: Species Conservation Trust Fund Sponsors: ISGAR / CURRY Appropriates money from the species conservation trust fund (trust fund) for programs submitted by the executive directo r of the department of natural resources that are designed to conserve native species that have been listed as threatened or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate species or are likely to become candidate species as determined by the Unit ed States fish and wildlife service. With regard to transfers from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund to the trust fund: * Delays, from the 2007 - 08 fiscal year to the 2008 - 09 fiscal year, a transfer of one - half of the revenues that ac crued to the severance tax trust fund that exceeded the March 2007 revenue forecast for the severance tax trust fund; * Delays, from fiscal year 2007 - 08 to fiscal year 2008 - 09, the transfer of $1,000,000; and * Makes transfers of revenues that would othe rwise have been appropriated for a deep underground science and engineering laboratory (DUSEL) occur in the same fiscal year as the appropriation for DUSEL would have occurred rather than in the succeeding fiscal year. Transfers $917,000 from the capital a ccount of the trust fund to the operations and maintenance account of the trust fund that was previously approved for expenditure in connection with the Platte River Three State Cooperative Agreement. Authorizes the expenditure of $500,000 in fiscal year 2 009 - 10 from the operation and maintenance account of the species conservation trust fund for acquiring the minimum amount of water for instream flows necessary to preserve or improve the natural environment to a reasonable degree for species of concern.