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cooperation with the Law Schools, the Water Bar and the State Engineer's <br />Office <br />The Task Force recommends that the Governor and/or the General Assembly request the <br />Colorado Supreme Court to undertake and complete within six months a study of the <br />Water Courts in the State and identify possible ways to achieve efficiencies, while still <br />protecting quality outcomes. <br />Passed 21/2 <br />6. The Task Force recommends that the Legislature and/or the Department of <br />Natural Resources support any South Platte water entity in pursuing a CREP or EQIP <br />program to the same extent that the State has supported other entities, such as the <br />Republican River Water Conservation District, in pursuing CREPs or EQIP in other parts <br />of the state and the Task Force supports encouraging the Colorado Delegation to support <br />amendments to the 2007 Farm Bill to allow use of these programs in the South Platte <br />River Basin. <br />Passed 17/6 <br />7. Because the South Platte well rules did not go into effect until 1974 and therefore <br />well pumping prior to 1974 did not require augmentation, the Task Force recommends <br />that the Legislature enact legislation providing that augmentation is not required for <br />current depletions caused by pumping prior to 1974. . <br />Passed 17/6 <br />8. The Task Force recommends that the Governor and the Department of Natural <br />Resources encourage Colorado's Congressional Delegation to encourage federal funding <br />of the study to reallocate space in Chatfield Reservoir to allow more storage. <br />Passed 23/0 <br />9. .- The Task Force recommends that the Legislature consider legislation that would <br />expand provisions under the water banking act to allow sources of water other than stored <br />water (e.g. changed water rights, underground storage, trans- mountain water) to be put <br />into a water bank and applied to other decreed augmentation plans as an additional water <br />supply. <br />Passed 16/7 <br />10. The Task Force recommends that the Legislature continue to support the Senate <br />Bill 07 -122 study regarding "alternative to dry up" of agricultural land for banking, <br />fallowing, interruptible supply, and alternative crops which allows partial dry up. <br />Passed 20/3 <br />4 <br />