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- '~', ')0. . STATE OF COLORADO o COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD Department of Natural Resources 721 State Centennial Building 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: (303) 866-3441 M E M 0 RAN DUM Richard D. lamm Governor J. William McDonald Director David W. Walker Deputy Director TO: Members, CWCB FROM: Bill McDonald, Director DATE: January 4, 1985 SUBJECT: Agenda Item 23, January 14-15, 1985, Board Meeting-- Projects Authorization Bill and Proposed Amendments to Construction Fund Statutes Introduction In order to effect the authorization of the projects recommended to the General Assembly by the Board, it is necessary for the Legislature to pass an authorizations bill. As has been the past practice, I have already sought sponsors for such a bill and have drafted a bill for pre-filing. Representative Younglund and Senator Brandon have agreed again to sponsor the bill, which has already been introduced as HB 1042 (copy enclosed) . The Board needs to review the bill at this time and finalize its re9ommendations in order that I can report the Board's position to the House Agriculture Committee when the bill is taken up. I expect the committee to hold hearings on the bill within the next couple of weeks. Discussion As introduced, HB 1042 addressed three matters. ,In Section 1, the projects being recommended to the General Assembly by the Board would be authorized. The language of Section 1 is the standard language that has been used in the last several annual projects authorization bills. In Section 2, I nave proposed 37-60-120 of the current statutes. nearly identical to language which amendments to Section The proposed language is has been in each of the last . 217 ai/23