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federal law, or are candidate species or are likely ta become candidate <br />species as determined by the United States fish and wildlife service. <br />Transfers $6,882,000 from the operational account of the severance tax <br />trust fund to the capital account of the trust fund and $5,000,000 from the <br />operational account of the severance tax trust fund to the operations and <br />maintenance account of the trust fund. Transfers $1,000,000 from the <br />general fund to the operations and maintenance account of the hvst fund. <br />1 Be it enacted by the General Assembdy of the State of Colorado: <br />2 SECTION 1. Legislative declaration. (1) Pursuant to: <br />3 (a) Section 24-33-111(2), Colorado Revised Statutes, the species <br />4 conservation trust fund has been created in the state treasury ta fund <br />5 programs designed to conserve native species that have been listed as <br />6 threatened or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate <br />7 species or aze likely to become candidate species as determined by the <br />8 United States fish and wildlife service; <br />9 (b) Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, the <br />10 executive director of the department of natural resources, after consulting <br />11 with the Colorado water conservation board and its director, the wildlife <br />12 commission, and the director of the division of wildlife, has prepared and <br />13 delivered to the general assembly a species conservation eligibility list <br />14 describing programs and associated costs that are eligible to receive <br />15 funding from the species conservation trust fund; and <br />16 (c) Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to <br />17 obligating funds from the species conservation trust fund, the species <br />18 conservation eligibility list is subject to modification and adoption <br />19 through the passage of a bill. <br />20 SECTION 2. Eiigibility list - approval. (1) The general <br />21 assembly deems the recommended expenditures described in the species <br />22 conservation eligibility list to be in the interest of the people of the state. <br />-2- HB06-1311