LEG00193

• Bill Number: SB87-200
• Year: 1987
• Title: Concerning Well Permit Fees and in Connection Therewith Creating the Ground Water Management Cash Fund and Making an Appropriation in Connection Therewith.
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Passed

Ch. 267

Water and Irrigation

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been completed and an estimate of the time necessary to complete the well,
whereupon the state engineer shall extend such permit for one or more addi-
tional one-year periods. The state engineer shall charge a reasonable fee OF
SIXTY DOLLARS for such extension. The state engineer may require the
metering or other reasonable measurement of withdrawals of ground water
pursuant to such permits and the reasonable recording and disclosure of such
measured withdrawals. The state engineer may also require the filing of a
notice of commencement of beneficial use under such permit.'

Section 7. Article 90 of title 37, Colorado Revised Statutes, as amended,
is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:

37-90-142. State engineer - action upon permit. Except as otherwise pro-
vided by specific statute, the state engineer shall act upon an application
for a well permit within forty-five days of the receipt thereof.

Section 8. 37-92-602 (3) (a), (3) (e), and (5), Colorado Revised Statutes,
are amended to read:

37-92-602. Exemptions - presumptions. (3) (a) Wells of the type
described in paragraphs (b) to (d) of subsection (1) of this section may be
constructed only upon the issuance of a permit in accordance with the provi-
sions of this subsection (3). A person desiring to use such a well shall submit
an application for a permit accompanied by a fee of fWe TWENTY dollars
for an application under paragraph (c) of this subsection (3) and a fee of
tY/eRty five SIXTY dollars for an application under paragraph (b) of this
subsection (3).

(e) The state engineer shall act upon an application filed under this sub-
section (3) within sHtty FORTY-FIVE days after such filing and shall support
his ruling with a written statement of the basis therefor, and the provisions
of article 4 01 title 24, C.R.S., 1973, shall apply.

(5) Any wells exempted by this section which were put to beneficial use
prior to May 8, 1972, and any wells exempted by section 37-90-105 not
of record in the office of the state engineer may be recorded in that offic~
upon written application, and payment of a Hlffig PROCESSING fee of fWe
SIXTY dollars, AND PERMIT APPROVAL. The record shall include the
date the water is claimed to have been appropriated or first put to beneficial
use.

Section 9. Appropriation. In addition to any other appropriation, there
is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the ground water management
cash fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department of natural resources
for allocation to the state engineer, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1987,
the sum of two hundred ninety-seven thousand nine hundred dollars
($297,900), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the implementation
of this act.

Section 10. Effective date. This act shall take effect July 1, 1987.

Section 11. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds, deter-
mines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, health, and safety.

Approved: July 2, 1987