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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

objectives of the CWCB Strategic Plan. Grant applications will be
considered only in the following two categories:
L The appropriation or acquisition of water rights for the
purpose of preserving or improving the natural environment
to a reasonable degree to initigate the iinpact of an existing
water facility.
2. River restoration feasibility studies and construction proj ects
that are designed to directly initigate or significantly
iinprove the environinental iinpacts of existing water
facilities.
The Board will consider and CWCB staff will evaluate and recommend to
the Board grant applications for a~propriation or acquisition of water
riQhts to be held by the Board based on the following project types:
• Instream flow water rights that assist in the administration of
compact-entitled waters, or address problems relating to compact-
entitled waters,
• Instream flow water rights that facilitate the resolution of
federal water rights issues, and
• Instreain flow water rights that assist in the recovery of
threatened or endangered wildlife species or the conservation of
existing wildlife species within riparian ecosystems.
The Board will consider and CWCB staff will evaluate and recommend to
the Board grant applications for river restoration feasibilitv studies and
construction projects based on the following:
• Soundness of the project design, work plan or plan of study,
• The need for the proposed proj ect,
• The need for financial assistance.
• Financial, technical, or administrative participation or coordination by
all affected local governments.
NOTE: Recognizing that future needs and responses to those needs cannot be
predicted with certainty, the Colorado Water Conservation Board reserves
the right to recoininend for funding any instreain flow acquisition, river
restoration construction proj ect, or study that it deterinines would initigate
the effects of an existing water supply facility and furthers the purposes of
the Fish and Wildlife Resources Fund.
Approved by the CWCB
Septeinber 12, 2002
Agenda Itein #16a