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Ch. 168 Water and Irrigation Buckeye Lateral Ditch Association - Ditch Rehabilitation HB 95-1155 TOTALS $ 440,000 $ 440,000 $0 $1,430,000 $1,430,000 $0 SECTION 3. Colorado river compact decision snpport system - appropriation. (I) The Colorado water conservation board is hereby authorized to continue designing a decision support system for the Colorado river basin, to continue development of the necessary databases, models, and user tools, and to acquire, operate, and maintain the associated computer hardware and software, (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 department of natural resources for allocation to the Colorado water conservation board and the division of water resources, for contract year five, for the fiscal year beginning July I, 1997, the sum of three hundred twenty thousand dollars ($320,000) and 4.0 FTE, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to retain a contractor to manage the design of the Colorado river compact decision support system and for the continued implementation ofthis section. (3) The amounts authorized in this section are in addition to amounts authorized previously for the Colorado river compact decision support syStem for contract years one, two, three, and four. The moneys appropriated in subsection (2) ofthis section for the Colorado river compact decision support system shall remain available for the designated purposes until the project is completed. SECTION 4. Satellite monitoring system maintenance - appropriation. 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 department of natural resources for allocation to the state engineer, for the fiscal year beginning July I, 1997, the sum of one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the maintenance ofthe satellite monitoring system established and operated pursuant to section 37-80-102 (10), Colorado Revised Statutes. SECTION 5. Continuation of the extreme precipitation study and revisions to the NOAA atlas. (I) The Colorado water conservation board, in cooperation with the state engineer, is hereby authorized to continue the extreme precipitation study authorized in SB 94-029 enacted at the second regular session of the fifty-ninth general assembly, that directed the state engineer and the Colorado water conservation board to investigate available evidence of extreme precipitation in the mountains of Colorado to establish reasonable standards and criteria for the design and evaluation of reservoir spillways to safely pass a design flood event. The Colorado water conservation board is hereby authorized to contract with a consultant or consultants to develop a state model based on the characteristics of twenty selected stonns identified in the first phase of the project to predict extreme rainfall for any selected drainage basin above five thousand feet elevation and to expend up to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) from the Colorado water conservation construction fund for such purposes.