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Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Forest Service, and $300,000 in the Mitigation Fund for <br />additional species work in the future. Additional Construction Fund dollars are added each year <br />from the Severance Tax and Federal Mineral Lease dollars. <br />Process. Senator Wham has raised a concern that a deal was cut by the governors of the states <br />without involving the Legislature. In fact, Jim Lochhead, Executive Director of the Colorado <br />Department of Natural Resources, briefed the Joint House and Senate Agriculture Committee <br />and the Joint Budget Committee during the negotiations, which spanned over a year prior to the <br />final agreement. For that reason, you and Senator Ament decided that HB 1006 would be an <br />Interim Committee Bill representing a united state position on this issue. <br />TRUST FUND ALLOCATION PROCESS <br />In addition, it is important to remind the Committee that this trust fund will be managed like the <br />Water Conservation Board Construction Fund. Essentially, a list of projects will be developed <br />each year based on negotiations with the Federal government and the other states, and affected <br />private entities. Those projects will be forwarded to the General Assembly for approval by <br />resolution. <br />This is unlike the Capitol Development Committee process where there would be competition <br />for funds for a variety of purposes. The projects would be identified in order to advance <br />recovery efforts while allowing use permits to continue to be issued. <br />The total anticipated cost for all land and water species is $24.5 million over the 15 +year life of <br />the agreement. Therefore, we will continue in successive legislatures to add more dollars to the <br />fund from a variety of sources — not just water funds — such as the construction industry, mining <br />industry, wildlife cash and Great Outdoors Colorado. <br />CAPITOL PROJECTS <br />The capitol projects listed below would be undertaken in the next three -years in accordance with <br />agreements that have been negotiated by the State of Colorado to provide regulatory certainty <br />under the Endangered Species Act to Colorado residents and businesses. <br />• $1.2 million to install wells in the lower south Platte River associated with the Tamarack <br />Managed Groundwater Recharge Project. <br />• $2.5 million to acquire land in Nebraska on a willing seller basis. <br />• $5.4 million to cover the state's share of those capital projects for the Upper Colorado River <br />and San Juan Programs listed below. <br />0 $1.5 million to acquire property from willing sellers worth $1.5 million in connection with <br />the Preble's meadow jumping mouse habitat conservation plan. This plan is currently being <br />negotiated, but is expected to be completed by December 1998. <br />Total: $10.6 million over 3 years <br />