Answer Brief of the Colorado River Water Conservancy District

• File Number: 8230.2F
• Description: Colorado Supreme Court Appeal
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Peter C. Fleming, Kristin M. Gillespie
• Title: Answer Brief of the Colorado River Water Conservancy District
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Court Documents

Supreme Court, State of Colorado (Appeal from District Court, Water Division No. 4, Case No. 02CW38)
Case No. 04SA44: Colorado Water Conservation Board v. Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District
Answer Brief of the Colorado River Water Conservation District
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D. SB 216 contemplates that the Findings of Fact issued by the CWCB
are rebuttable by a preponderance of the evidence and that the
CWCB's Recommendations are not entitled to any presumptive
validity .......................................................17
1. SB 216 provides the CWCB with the authority to make
presumptively valid findings only on certain limited
factualissues ................................................17
2. A preponderance of the evidence is the correct burden to
rebut the CWCB's Findings of Fact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
3. Sufficient evidence was presented at trial to overcome any
presumption of validity on the matters delegated to the
CWCB ....................................................18
V. CONCLUSION .......................................................20
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