Colorado Water Conservation Handbook

• Year: 2004
• Title: CWCB Board Member Handbook
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Handbook containing phone numbers, addresses, statutes, rules, policies, straegic plans and Board member work plans.
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

MINES AND MINERALS
Health and Safety
ARTICLE 20

34-20-101. Legislative declaration.
34-20-102. Definitions.
34-20-103. Division of minerals and geology-
creation - powers and duties - transfer of functions and
property - change of statutory references.
34-20-104. Minerals, energy, and geology
policy advisory board - creation.
34-20-104. Minerals, energy, and geology policy
advisory board - creation. (1) There is hereby created in
the department of natural resources the minerals,
energy, and geology policy advisory board. The
advisory board shall consist of seventeen members
appointed by the governor as follows: A board member
of the mined land reclamation board; a board member of
the oil and gas conservation commission; a member of
the Colorado geological survey advisory committee; one
member of the coal mine board of examiners; the
executive director of the department of natural
resources, or the designee of such executive director;
four representatives of the oil and gas industry, at least
one of whom shall be a practicing professional
geologist; four representatives of the mining industry, at
least one of whom shall be a practicing professional
geologist; and four members at large representing local
government, the environmental community, and
institutions of higher education, and a practicing
professional geologist who shall be from the field of
hydrogeology, engineering geology, or environmental
geology. The method of selecting said industry
representatives shall be accomplished in the following
manner: The governor shall solicit qualified candidates
from recognized trade associations and qualified
individuals in the referenced industries. The governor
shall appoint the industry representatives to serve on the
board from each list so developed. The ex officio
nonvoting members of the board shall include: The
director of the division of minerals and geology, the
heads of the office of active and inactive mines, the
office of mined land reclamation, the state geologist,
and the director of the oil and gas conservation
commission. The board shall elect its chair from the
membership of the board on an annual basis, who shall
not be an employee of the state of Colorado. To the
extent practicable, at least five members of the advisory
board shall be residents of Colorado west of the
continental divide.
(2) Appointments shall be made no later than
August 30, 1992.
(3) The advisory board shall:
(a) Explore and quantify administrative
efficiencies and office locations of the division's
programs and make recommendations concerning them
to the executive director prior to June 30, 1993. In
addition, the board shall examine and make
recommendations to the executive director prior to June
30, 1993, concerning the functions and duties of the

office of active and inactive mines, particularly with
respect to those functions transferred from the division
of mines.
(b) Develop and plan a mineral information
management system, including the creation of a
rninerals and energy information center;
(c) Prepare and submit to the governor and the
office of economic development an annual report on the
minerals and energy industry in the state, with
cooperation and information from divisions of the
department of natural resources;
(d) Review the annual budget requests,
programs, and related fees or levies for the division and
the oil and gas conservation commission;
(e) Review periodically the public information
plan and public relations outreach efforts for the
mineral, energy, and geology programs within the
department;
(f) Provide advice to the executive director
and the boards, commissions, and advisory committees
of the mineral, energy, and geology programs in the
department on related policy issues affecting the state;
(g) Assist the Colorado geological survey and
its advisory committee in addressing the funding needs
and services provided by the survey;
(h) Develop a plan to promote the minerals, oil
and gas, and geological resources of the state;
(i) Repealed.
(j) Provide advice to the executive director on
programs or proj ects that should receive a grant of funds
from the operational account of the severance tax trust
fund as set forth in section 39-29-109, C.R.S.
(4) Repealed.

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