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<br />(I) ANY OTHER REASONABLE CONDITION IMPOSED BY THE STATE ENGINEER BY RULE. <br />(4) (a) IF THE APPLICANT HAS NOT COMPLETED THE WATER CONSERVATION PROJECT PRIOR TO THE <br />DATE THE APPLICANT LAST SUBMITS INFORMATION TO THE STATE ENGINEER, THE STATE ENGINEER MAY ISSUE A <br />PRELIMINARY CONSERVED WATER CERTIFICATE. <br />(b) (I) UPON COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT, THE APPLICANT SHALL SUBMIT TO THE STATE ENGINEER: <br />(A) ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED TO ACCURATELY INFORM THE STATE ENGINEER OF THE PROJECT'S <br />STATUS AS COMPLETED; AND <br />(B) A FILING FEE OF NO MORE THAN DOLLARS. <br />(II) UPON SATISFACTION OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH (b), THE <br />STATE ENGINEER MAY ISSUE A FINAL CONSERVED WATER CERTIFICATE, WHICH SHALL SPECIFY INFORMATION <br />DETERMINED BY THE STATE ENGINEER BY RULE, INCLUDING: <br />(A) THE DATE OF ISSUANCE; AND <br />(B) THE AMOUNT OF CONSERVED WATER, QUANTIFIED BY VOLUME OR FLOW, AS OF THE DATE OF THE <br />LATER OF THE SUBMISSION OF THE APPLICATION AND THE COMPLETION OF THE WATER CONSERVATION PROJECT. <br />(c) THE STATE ENGINEER SHALL CALCULATE THE AMOUNT OF CONSERVED WATER BY: <br />(I) SUBTRACTING THE AMOUNT OF CONSUMPTIVE USE AFTER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER <br />CONSERVATION PROJECT FROM THE AMOUNT OF THE APPLICANT'S HISTORIC CONSUMPTIVE USE; AND <br />(II) SUBTRACTING FROM THE AMOUNT DERIVED PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH <br />(c) AN AMOUNT OF WATER NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT THE AMOUNT OF RETURN FLOW AFTER COMPLETION OF <br />THE WATER CONSERVATION PROJECT IS NOT LESS THAN THE AMOUNT OF HISTORIC RETURN FLOW AT EACH POINT <br />OF HISTORIC RETURN FLOW. <br />(5) THE STATE ENGINEER MAY PROMULGATE RULES NECESSARY OR CONVENIENT TO THE <br />ADMINISTRATION OF THIS SECTtON. <br />SECTION 60 37-92-302 (2) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read: <br />37-92-302. Applications for water rights or changes of such rights - plans for augmentation. <br />(2) (a) The water judges of the various divisions shall jointly prepare and supply to the water clerks standard <br />forms whiefl THAT shall be used for such applications and statements of opposition. These forms shall designate <br />the information to be supplied and may be modified from time to time. Supplemental material may be submitted <br />with any form. In the case of applications for a determination of a water right or a conditional water right, the <br />forms shall require, among other things, a legal description of the diversion or proposed diversion, a description <br />of the source of the water, the date of the initiation of the appropriation or proposed appropriation, the amount of <br />water claimed, and the use or proposed use of the water. In the case of applications for approval of a change of <br />water right or plan for augmentation, the forms shall require a complete statement of such change or plan, <br />including a description of all water rights to be established or changed by the plan, a map showing the <br />approximate location of historic use of the rights, ANY CONSERVED WATER CERTIFICATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO <br />SECTION 37-80-121 (4) (b)(II) THAT APPLIES TO THE APPLICATION, and records or summaries of records of actual <br />diversions of each right the applicant intends to rely on to the extent such records exist. In the case of <br />applications that will require construction of a well, other than applications for determinations of rights to ground <br />water from wells described in section 37-90-137 (4), no application shall be heard on its merits by the referee or <br />water judge until a written consultation report, as required by subsection (4) of this section, has been submitted <br />and considered. The consultation report shall be submitted within four months after the filing of the application <br />and shall include findings as to whether the construction and use of any well proposed in the application will <br />injuriously affect the owner of, or persons entitled to use, water under a vested water right or decreed conditional <br />water right. In the case of applications for determinations of rights to ground water from wells described in <br />section 37-90.137 (4), the application shall be supplemented by evidence that the state engineer has issued or <br />failed to issue, within four months ef AFTER the filing of the application in wale!' DISTRICT court, a determination <br />as to the facts of such application. Such state engineer's determination shall be made by the state engineer upon <br />receipt from the water clerk of a copy of the application, and no separate filing or docketing with the state <br />engineer shall be required. <br />SECTION 7. 37-92-305 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read: <br />37-92-305. Standards with respect to rulings of the referee and decisions of the water judge.(3) A change of water right or plan for augmentation, including water exchange project, shall be approved if such <br />change or plan will not injuriously affect the owner of or persons entitled to use water under a vested water right <br /> <br />40 <br />