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

temporary solution to an emergency condition must be
one that is sensible and functional on its own merits
without regard to the prospect offurther state funding.
The board shall submit to the general assembly a written
determination of the basis for each loan from the
emergency fund not later than January 15 of the year
following the year in which such loan was made. The
moneys in the emergency fund are hereby continuously
appropriated to the board for emergency infrastructure
purposes consistent with the definition of" emergency"
in section 20 (2) (c) of article X of the state constitution,
including, but not lirnited to, the immediate availability
of moneys for emergency repairs to raw water storage
systems, raw water transmission systems, or both such
storage and transmission systems. All interest derived
from loans and the investment of moneys in the
emergency fund shall be credited to the Colorado water
conservation board construction fund. Any balance in
excess of two million dollars remaining in the
emergency fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be
credited to the Colorado water conservation board
construction fund.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section
24-6-402, C.RS., in emergency situations in which a
majority of the board certifies that exigencies of time
require that the board meets without delay for the
purpose of considering the need for a loan pursuant to
subsection (1) of this section, the requirements of public
notice may be dispensed with but the public shall
receive notice as soon as is practicable under such
exigent circumstances; except that nothing in this
subsection (2) shall be construed to relieve the board of
the duty to make public notice.

37 -60-122.7. Feasibility study small grant fund -
creation.
( 1) to (4) Repealed.
(5) (a) There is hereby created in the state
treasury the feasibility study small grant fund for the
purpose of making small grants to help pay the costs of
preparing water project feasibility studies. The
Colorado water conservation board shall approve small
feasibility study grants based solely on criteria adopted
by the board.
(b) The state treasurer is hereby authorized
and directed to transfer two hundred thousand dollars
from the Colorado water conservation board
construction fund to the feasibility study small grant
fund. The moneys in the feasibility study small grant
fund are hereby continuously appropriated to the board
for grants in compliance with this subsection (5). All
interest derived from the investment of moneys in the
feasibility study small grant fund shall be credited to the
Colorado water conservation board construction fund.
Any balance remaining in the feasibility study small
grant fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in
the fund and shall not revert to the Colorado water
conservation board construction fund.

37-60-122.8. Publications fund. (1) There is hereby
created in the state treasury the publications fund. The
fund shall consist of moneys paid to the board from
persons outside the board for copies of public records or
publications provided by the board. The moneys in the
fund may be expended by the board to pay for the cost
of providing copies of public records or publications to
persons outside the board. The moneys in the fund are
hereby continuously appropriated to the board for the
purposes established in this section.
(2) The publications fund shall have no more
than ten thousand dollars in it and any amount in excess
shall be credited to the Colorado water conservation
board construction fund. All interest derived from the
investment of moneys in the publications fund shall be
credited to the publications fund.
(3) The state treasurer is hereby authorized
and directed to transfer five thousand dollars from the
Colorado water conservation board construction fund to
the publications fund.

37-60-122.9. Colorado river recovery program loan
fund - creation. (1) There is hereby created in the state
treasury the Colorado river recovery program loan fund
for the purpose of making loans to the Colorado river
and San Juan river recovery programs for the
construction or improvement of certain water related
projects in Colorado, under agreements with power
users of the federal Colorado river storage proj ect,
required to recover the four endangered fish species of
the upper Colorado river, including the San Juan river.
(2) The Colorado water conservation board
shall recommend loans from the Colorado river
recovery program loan fund to the general assembly
pursuant to section 37-60-122 (1) (b). The loans shall
be subject to an interest rate and repayment provisions
to be determined by the Colorado water conservation
board.
(3) The state treasurer is hereby authorized
and directed to transfer to the Colorado river recovery
program loan fund, created in subsection (1) of this
section, out of any moneys in the Colorado water
conservation board construction fund not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of two million dollars. Interest
earned on the funds in the Colorado river recovery
program loan fund shall be credited to the Colorado
water conservation board construction fund, created in
section 37-60-121 (1).

37-60-123. Conformity with state water plan.
(Repealed)

37-60-123.1. Loan foreclosure fund - created. There is
hereby created in the state treasury the loan foreclosure
fund, referred to in this section as the "foreclosure
fund". The state treasurer is hereby authorized and
directed to transfer one hundred thousand dollars from
the Colorado water conservation board construction
fund to the foreclosure fund. The Colorado water
conservation board is authorized to provide funding to
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