LEG00176

• Bill Number: SB05-084
• Year: 2005
• Title: Concerning the Funding of Colorado Water Conservation Board Projects, and, in Connection Therewith, Making Appropriations
• Legislation - Doc Type: Construction Fund Bill

districts, water conservancy districts, and other water providers with the
development of cloud seeding programs that provide benefits to recreation,
streams, and reservoirs through snowpack enhancement.

(2) The amounts appropriated in this section are in addition to
amounts appropriated previously for the weather modification program.
The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain
available for the designated purposes until the project is completed.

SECTION 11. Enhanced snowpack assessment program -
appropriation. (1) 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 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2005, the sum of
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for the board to collaborate with the United States bureau of
reclamation on an enhanced snowpack assessment project that will develop
modeled snowpack data and mapping to provide benefits to all water
resource planners and managers in Colorado.

(2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall
remain available for the designated purposes until the project is completed.

SECTION 12. Continuation of the flood hazard mitigation
program - appropriation. (1) 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 the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2005, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), or so much
thereof as may be necessary, for the board to continue to participate in
planning and engineering services for stream restoration projects as well as
to provide matching funds for partnering with federal and local agencies in
the development of flood mitigation projects.

(2) The amounts appropriated in this section are in addition to
amounts appropriated previously for the flood hazard mitigation program.
The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall remain
available for the designated purposes until the project is completed.

SECTION 13. Floodplain technical services - appropriation.
(1) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out

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