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<br />The Inverness water and sanitation district; and <br />The Arapahoe county water and wastewater <br />authority. <br />Creates a water enterprise of the district. Creates an 8-mernber board of <br />directors of the district consisting of one representative from each of the <br />Douglas and Arapahoe county boards of county commissioners, one <br />representative chosen jointly by the Douglas and Arapahoe county <br />commissioners, one representative appointed by each of the 4 largest <br />water providers within the district, and one representative elected by the <br />other water providers. Specifies inclusion and election requirements and <br />the district's taxing and water project financing, construction, and <br />operat~on auth.orities. '. ". c: . '. <br />AuthOrizes the dlstpct fo seek ways to use renewable water <br />conjunctively with Denver b~~in aquifers and to provide water supplies <br />to water providers within the'.district. . Requires the district's water <br />decrees for water rights that would transport water across a water division <br />boundary to include terms and conditions, on a case-by-case basis, to <br />ensure that present decreed beneficial uses of water will not be <br />substantially impaired or substantially increased in cost. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado.' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />2 SECTION 1. Title 37, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended <br />3 BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW ARTICLE to read: <br />4 ARTICLE 49 <br /> <br />5 Douglas-Arapahoe Water Conservation District <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />37-49-101. Legislative declaration. (1) THE GENERAL <br /> <br />7 ASSEMBLY FINDS, DETERMINES, AND DECLARES THAT IN RECOGNITION OF <br /> <br /> <br />8 THE "COLORADO 64 WATER PRlNCIPLES" ENDORSED BY THE COLORADO <br /> <br /> <br />9 GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 03-1019 AND THE <br /> <br /> <br />1 0 COMBINED EFFECTS OF RECENT POPULATION GROWTH, SEVERE DROUGHT, <br /> <br /> <br />11 INCREASED RELIANCE ON GROUND WATER SUPPLIES IN THE DENVER BASIN <br /> <br /> <br />12 AQUIFERS, COUPLED WITH PROJECTED GROWTH AND INCREASING NEEDS <br /> <br /> <br />13 FOR WATER CONSERVATION AND RELIABLE, RENEWABLE, AND <br /> <br />14 <br /> <br />SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLIES, IT IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO PROMOTE <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />HB05-1298 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />J <br />