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<br />(1) The Colorado water conservation board is hereby authorized to <br />participate in a watershed study along Fountain creek in the citY of <br />Colorado Springs and adjacent areas of EI Paso, Pueblo, and Teller <br />counties, Colorado. The purposes of the study are to defme specific flood <br />mitigation measures to lessen flood severity and reduce future flood and <br />erosion damages along Fountain creek. <br /> <br />(2) In addition to any. other appropnanon, there. is hereby <br />appropriated, out of any moneys in the Colorado water conservation board <br />construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Colorado water <br />conservation board for allocation to the city of Colorado Springs, the suni <br />of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000), or so much thereof as may <br />be necessary, for costs associated with the completion of the Fountain creek <br />watershed project. . <br /> <br />(3) The moneys appropriated in subsection (2) of this section shall <br />remain available for the designated purposes until the project is completed. <br /> <br />SECTION 12. Continuation ofthe South Platte River decision <br />support system -appropriation. (1) The Colorado water conservation <br />board is hereby authorized to expend up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) <br />from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund to continue <br />development of the South Platte river decision support system,development <br />of the necessary databases, and collection of the required water resources <br />information for the development of the surface and groundwater models, <br />. consumptive use'models, and overall water budget model associated with <br />the decision support system. <br /> <br />. (2) The amounts appropriated in this section are in addition to <br />amounts appropriated previously for the South Platte river decision support <br />system.. The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall <br />remain available for the designated purposes until the project is completed. <br />. , <br /> <br />SECTION 13.. Statewide drainage criteria manual - <br />appropriation..' (1) The Colorado water conservation board is . hereby <br />authorized to expend up toone hundred fifty thousanddollars($l50,OOO) <br />. from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund 'to complete <br />. the preparation of a drainageaI1d floodplain lDaI1agement criteria manual <br />forthestate of Colonido. q . . '. '. . . <br /> <br />PAGE 7-HOUSE BILL 02-1152 <br />