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

cover the direct costs associated with completing
foreclosure proceedings against a delinquent borrower
from either the Colorado water conservation board
construction fund or the severance tax trust fund
perpetual base account. The moneys in the foreclosure
fund are hereby continuously appropriated to the board
for loan foreclosure proceedings, including, but not
limited to, property management costs, appraisals,
assessments, taxes, local government fees, insurance
costs, court costs, and legal fees. All interest derived
from the investment of moneys in the foreclosure fund .
shall be credited to the Colorado water conservation
board construction fund. Any balance remaining in the
foreclosure fund at the end of any fiscal year shall
remain in the fund.

37-60-123.2. Flood response fund - created. There is
hereby created in the state treasury the flood response
fund, referred to in this section as the "response fund".
The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to
transfer one hundred fifty thousand dollars from the
Colorado water conservation board construction fund to
the response fund. The Colorado water conservation
board is authorized to provide funding for flood
preparedness and for response and recovery activities
following flood events and disasters. The moneys in the
response fund are hereby continuously appropriated to
the board for flood response purposes, including, but not
limited to, the immediate availability of funds for aerial
photography of flooded areas, flood documentation and
identification of specific hazards, evaluations and
revisions of floodplain designations, flood forecasting
and preparation, and development of disaster and
recovery mitigation plans. All interest derived from the
investment of moneys in the response fund shall be
credited to the Colorado water conservation board
construction fund. Any balance remaining in the
response fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain
in the fund.

37-60-123.5. Agricultural emergency drought response.
(1) If, pursuant to federal or state law, any portion of
Colorado has received emergency drought designation
or a disaster emergency has been proclaimed due to
drought, notwithstanding the provisions of section 39-
29-109 (1) (a), C.R.S., in addition to any other moneys
appropriated from the perpetual base account of the
severance tax trust fund, creat~d by section 39-29-109,
C.R.S., up to one million dollars in the perpetual base
account of the severance tax trust fund are continuously
appropriated to the director of the Colorado water
conservation board and the state engineer annually per
such designation or proclamation to make loans and
grants to agricultural organizations for emergency
drought-related water augmentation purposes.
(2) The director of the Colorado water
conservation board and the state engineer shall consult
with the commissioner of agriculture and the executive
director of the department of natural resources before
making any loans or grants pursuant to this section.

Within three months after the end of any fiscal year
during which the spending authority created pursuant to
this section is exercised, the director and the state
engineer shall report to the general assembly regarding
how such spending authority was exercised.

37-60-124. Office of water conservation - creation-
powers and duties. (1) There is hereby created as an
office under the Colorado water conservation board the
office of water conservation. The office shall have such
staff as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the
duties established for the office.
(2) The office of water conservation shall
promote water use efficiency by performing, to the
degree feasible, duties including, but not limited to, the
following:
(a) Acting as a repository for water use
efficiency information;
(b) Provision of technical assistance to and
working with municipal and other urban water providers
and state agencies as they plan for, evaluate, and
implement water use efficiency measures to provide
necessary water services;
(c) Coordination of the planning for and
assistance in the implementation of water use efficiency
plans by state agencies pursuant to section 37-96-103
(4);
(d) Administration of financial assistance for
water use efficiency measures and water use efficiency
programs, as authorized in section 37-60-125; and
(e) Preparation for review and approval by the
board for transmittal to the general assembly such
information and recommendations concerning water use
efficiency projects and proposed water use efficiency
measures by state and local governments, including the
analysis of water use efficiency programs already in
place.
(3) The personal services, operating, travel and
subsistence, capital, and legal services expenses of
administering the office of water conservation and the
programs and activities authorized by subsection (2) of
this section may be paid from such moneys as are
appropriated, allocated, or otherwise credited to the
Colorado water conservation board construction fund.
(4) Repealed.

37-60-125. Authorizations for expenditures from
Colorado water conservation board construction fund
for demonstration of benefits of water efficiency. (1)
The Colorado water conservation board is hereby
authorized to expend five hundred thousand dollars
from the Colorado water conservation board
construction fund, notwithstanding the requirements of
sections 37-60-119 to 37-60-122, for the purpose of a
pilot program demonstrating the benefits of water
efficiency measures by providirlg incentive grants, not
to exceed fifty thousand dollars to any public agency,
established under Colorado law, that requests assistance
in the design and implementation of pilot water
efficiency and conservation measures.

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