LEG00138

• Bill Number: HB01-1024
• Year: 2001
• Title: Concerning Financial Incentives for Commercial Fish Hatcheries that Test Positive for Whirling Disease
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Passed

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CHAPTER 9

NATURAL RESOURCES

HOUSE BILL 01-1024 [Digest]

BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Plant, Chavez, Coleman, Decker, Hoppe, Madden, Ragsdale, Rippy, Saliman,
Scott, Snook, Stengel, and Tochtrop;

also SENATOR(S) Dyer (Durango), Arnold, Chlouber, Hernandez, Hillman, Matsunaka, Perlmutter, Phillips,
Tate, and Taylor.

AN ACT

CONCERNING FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR COMMERCIAL FISH HATCHERIES THAT TEST
POSITIVE FOR WHIRLING DISEASE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION 1. Fish hatchery project loan authorization from the Colorado water conservation board
construction fund. (1) Pursuant to section 37-60-122, Colorado Revised Statutes, the Colorado water
conservation board is hereby authorized to loan moneys to enable commercial aquaculturists, as defined in
section 35-24.5-103 (7), Colorado Revised Statutes, whose aquaculture facilities are fish production facilities
that test positive for myxobolus cerebralis to make any such facility achieve a myxobolus cerebralis negative
certification from the division of wildlife in the department of natural resources, or prevent the introduction of
myxobolus cerebralis to any aquaculture facility or prevent the spread of myxobolus cerebralis, by:

(a) Rendering all originating water sources at the facility free of all fish and enclosed so as to prevent
outside contamination by myxobolus cerebralis, including by a change of water right;

(b) Constructing all rearing spaces and water conveyances of concrete, fiberglass, steel, or other
manufactured impermeable materials that are not conducive to colonization by the alternate oligochaete hosts of
myxobolus cerebralis; and

(c) Installing best available technology to maintain water quality by controlling the spread of
contamination by myxobolus cerebralis from any such facility to waters of the state.

SECTION 2. Recognition of economic impacts on private producers. The division of wildlife shall
pursue actions that encourage cleanup of aquaculture facilities infected with myxobolus cerebralis, including
strategies that help minimize the economic impact of such infection on such facilities.

http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/sI2001/s1.9.HTM

06/05/2002