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system maintenance; <br />! $175,000 for continuation of the weather modification <br />program; <br />! $500,000 for continuation of the Colorado floodplain map <br />modernization program; <br />! $500,000 for continuation of the watershed restoration <br />program; <br />! $300,000 to restore the flood response fund balance; <br />! $1,000,000 for continuation of the phreatophyte control <br />cost - sharing program; <br />! $2,000,000 for continuation of the Colorado river water <br />availability study; <br />! $500,000 to begin implementation of the South Platte <br />groundwater data collection and analysis project; <br />! $1,000,000 for continuation of the alternative agriculture <br />water transfer sustainability grant program; <br />! $5,000,000 for the planning and implementation of the Rio <br />Grande cooperative project; <br />! $5,000,000 for implementation of the Chatfield reservoir <br />reallocation project; <br />! $12,000,000 for the third and final installment of the <br />purchase of Colorado's allotment of Animas-La Plata <br />project water pursuant to House Bill 10 -1250, enacted in <br />2010; and <br />! $300,000 to provide legal support and funding for litigation <br />involving protests of individual water rights that the state <br />engineer has placed on the abandonment list. <br />Section 6 of the bill repurposes the flood response program to <br />include drought preparedness and response and renames the flood <br />response fund to the flood and drought response fund. <br />Section 14 of the bill transfers from the perpetual base account of <br />the severance tax trust fund to the Colorado water conservation board <br />construction fund the following: <br />! $30,000,000 for the Rio Grand cooperative project, <br />including improvements associated with the Beaver Park <br />reservoir and the Rio Grande reservoir; and <br />! $13,000,000 for the implementation of the Chatfield <br />reservoir reallocation project. <br />Section 14 of the bill also changes the water supply reserve <br />account to the water supply reserve fund. <br />Section 16 of the bill authorizes the state engineer to receive and <br />expend contributions from the Colorado water conservation board for use <br />in discharging the state engineer's duties. <br />-2- 165 <br />