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• Bill Number: SB03-110
• Year: 2003
• Title: Concerning the Funding of CWCB Projects and Making Appropriations in Connection Therewith
• Legislation - Doc Type: Construction Fund Bill

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river upstream of the city of Grand JU1)ction, Colorado. The purpose of

the study is to describe the quantity, timing, and causes of streamflow

gains and losses in order to more efficiently manage reservoirs,

administer water rights, and implement endangered species programs.

The board in consultation with the Unites States geological survey will

develop the project scope of work.

(2) In addition to any other appropriation,. there is hereby

appropriated, out of any moneys in the Colorado water conservation

board construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Colorado

water conservation board for allocation to the United States geological

survey, the sum of fifty-nine thousand four hundred sixty dollars

($59,460), or so much thereof as may he necessary, for costs associated

with the completion of the Gunnison river streamflow study.

(3) The moneys appropriated in subsection (2) of this section shall

remain available for the designated purposes until the project is

completed.

SECTION 14. Statewide water supply initiative -

appropriation. (I) The Colorado water conservation board is hereby

authorized to contract with a responsible contractor for the purpose of

preparing a reconnaissance-level study of a statewide water supply

initiative. The initiative will investigate all aspects of water supply and

water demand in Colorado over the next thirty years by evaluating water

supply and water management project alternatives in each river basin of

the state, formulating water development strategies for the

implementation of the most promising alternatives in each basin, and

building a consensus among the state's water users as to which

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