LEG00229

• Bill Number: SB80-149
• Year: 1980
• Title: Concerning the Development of the Water Resources of the State and Making Appropriations for the Financing of Projects for Such Development
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Passed

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as the Colorado water conservation board construction fund, which
shall consist of all moneys which may be appropriated thereto by
the general assembly or which may be otherwise made available to
it by the general assembly and such charges that may become a
part thereof under the terms of section 37-60-11~. Such fund
shall be a continuing fund to be expended in the manner specified
in section 37-60-122 and shall not revert to the general fund of
the state at the end of any fiscal year. except--that--any--cash
batance--in--excess--of--ten--mittion-dottars-shatt-re~ert-to-the
generat-fond-of-the-state7

(4) (a) The personal services, operating expenses, and
travel and subsistence expenses of administering and managing the
feasibility studies, engineering, and design work, and
construction activities associated with projects which are funded
using moneys appropriated, allocated, or otherwise credited to
the Colorado water conservation board construction fund may be
paid from such moneys. Any proposed use of such moneys for
personal services, operating expenses, and travel and subsistence
expenses shall be included in the annual report to the general
assembly pursuant to section 37-60-122. Moneys appropriated,
allocated, or otherwise credited to the Colorado water
conservation board construction fund can be expended for such
personal services, operating expenses, and travel and subsistence
expenses only upon authorization of the general assembly.

(b) The Colorado water conservation board is authorized to
expend not more than one and one-half percent of the moneys
appropriated, allocated, or otherwise credited to the Colorado
water conservation board construction fund for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1980, and ending June 30, 1981, for the
purposes set forth in paragraph (a) of this subsection (4).

SECTION 3. 37-60-122 (1) (c), Colorado Revised Statutes
1973, as amended, is amended to read:

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37-60-122. General assembly a~proval. (1) (c) In order to
determine the economic and engineerlng feasibility of any project
proposed to be constructed from funds provided in whole or in
part from the Colorado water conservation board construction
fund, the board shall cause a feasibility report to be prepared
on such proposed project if, in the discretion of the board, it
appears to qualify for consideration under section 37-60-119.
For all such feasibility investigations, the board is authorized
to commit or expend on a continuing basis a-som-not-to-exceed-one
hondred--fifty--thoosand--dottars--in--any--fiscat--year-from TEN
PERCENT OF THE MONEYS APPROPRIATED, CREDITED, OR OTHERWISE
APPLIED TO the constru~tion fund authorized by section 37-60-121
prior to the execution and approval of any contract contemplated
by paragraph (a) of this subsection (1); except that the cost of
any feasibility investigation shall be considered a part of the
total project cost if such project is subsequently constructed.

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