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<br />Colorado; <br /> <br />The Governor and the Water Conservation Board led nego- <br /> <br /> <br />tiations to obtain money through power revenues generated by <br /> <br /> <br />the Colorado River Storage Project; <br /> <br />The state has continued to pursue traditional avenues to <br /> <br />federal financing, resulting most recently in the cost <br /> <br />sharing agreement for the Animas-La Plata Project; and <br /> <br />The Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority <br />was created. <br /> <br />Second, overuse of underground aqui fers in Eastern Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />began to stress limited ground water resources. The state <br /> <br /> <br />responded with nation-leading efforts in groundwater-surface <br /> <br /> <br />water integration, and the establishment of designated ground- <br /> <br /> <br />water basins and the Groundwater Commission. <br /> <br />Third, the state has faced concurrent environmental awareness <br /> <br /> <br />and federal environmental regulation. Again, the state response <br /> <br />has been varied: <br /> <br />Authority was vested in the Colorado Water Conservation <br /> <br /> <br />Board, in consultation with the Division of wildlife, to <br /> <br /> <br />appropriate instream flows to protect the natural environ- <br /> <br /> <br />ment; <br /> <br />A state endangered species act was promulgated, and the state <br /> <br />has taken an active role in negotiations with the Federal <br /> <br />-6- <br />