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• Board Meeting Date: 7/22/2009
• Description: WPFM Section - Fish and Wildlife Resources Fund Grant - Fountain Creek Fish Passage
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

POLICY NL)1VIBER: 15
SUBJECT: CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF FISH AND WILDLIFE
RESOURCES FUND APPLICATIONS FOR INSTREAM FLOWS
AND RIVER RESTORATION PROJECTS.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Septeinber 12, 2002
POLICY: The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) will accept
applications throughout the year for grants froin the Fish and Wildlife
Resources Fund for the appropriation or acquisition of instreain flow water
rights and river restoration construction proj ects to mitigate the effects of
the construction, operation, and maintenance of water diversion, delivery,
and storage facilities.
Applications for mitigation grants from the Fish and Wildlife Resources
Fund will be accepted for the following types of projects:
L The appropriation or acquisition of water rights for the
purpose of preserving or iinproving the natural
environment to a reasonable degree to mitigate the impact
of an existing water facility.
2. River restoration feasibility studies and construction
proj ects that are designed to directly mitigate or
significantly iinprove the environinental iinpacts of existing
water facilities.
The CWCB may, in any year, approve grants to fund any project in the
above categories that the Board deems worthy of funding through the Fish
and Wildlife Resources Fund. In order to protect the long-terin integrity
of the Fish and Wildlife Resources Fund, instreain flow and river
restoration projects initigating the iinpacts of existing water supply
facilities will be liinited to 40% of the Fish and Wildlife Resources Fund
balance as of July 1, 2002.
The proj ect applicant inust have coinpleted a fully executed funding
contract with the CWCB within 2 years of the grant authorization by the
CWCB, or the Board will consider de-authorization of the grant.
PL)RPOSE: To establish an approval process for instream flow and river restoration
construction project grants froin the Fish and Wildlife Resources Fund.
APPLICABILITY: This policy and procedure applies to applications for instreain flow or
river restoration construction project grants from the Fish and Wildlife
Resources Fund.
PROCEDURE: Prior to a Board ineeting, the CWCB staff will prepare for the Board's
consideration a summary of the technical, financial, and institutional
characteristics of each proposed instream flow water right appropriation or
acquisition, river restoration feasibility study or construction project.
Each application will be reviewed for conformity with the goals and