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water conservation district, or water <br />conservancy district for a reasonable <br />recreation experience in and on.the water. <br />§ 37 -92- 103(10.3). <br />In addition, as will be discussed in greater detail below, <br />the bill outlined a review and adjudication procedure for RICD <br />applications. After filing an application with the water court, <br />a RICD applicant must submit a copy to the CWCB for review that <br />involves initial, limited fact - finding on enumerated factors and <br />a resulting recommendation. A RICD applicant then proceeds from <br />the CWCB to the water court for judicial adjudication. The <br />water court must consider the CWCB's recommendation and examine <br />an applicant's claimed flows under the statutory factors <br />previously applied by the CWCB, but the agency's findings on <br />these same factors are presumptively valid, subject to rebuttal <br />by any party. <br />III. Analysis <br />A. The Colorado Water Conservation Board's Role <br />As clearly set forth in the title of SB 216, the General <br />Assembly established a procedure by which recreational in- <br />channel diversions are to be adjudicated. The procedure starts <br />with the CWCB, and thus, we begin our inquiry there as well. <br />2 The title of the bill is "An Act Concerning the Establishment <br />of a Procedure for the Adjudication of a Recreational In- Channel <br />Diversion by a Local Government, and Making an Appropriation <br />Therefor." Ch. 305, 2001 Colo. Sess. Laws 1187, 1187. <br />11 <br />