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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />721 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3441 <br />FAX: (3031 866-4474 <br /> <br />STATE OF COLORI\DO <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />l'v1EMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board Members <br /> <br />PeterEvans ?~~ <br />Acting Director <br /> <br />Roy Romer <br />Govemor <br />James S. Lochhead <br />Executive Director, ONR <br />Daries C. liJe, RE. <br />Direaor, CWCB <br />Peter H. Evans <br />Acting Director, CWCB <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />November 16, 1998 <br /> <br />RE: <br /> <br />Agenda Item He, November 23-34, 1998 Board Meeting-- <br />Anticipated 1999 Legislation - Office of Water Conservation <br /> <br />Over the last six months, I have sought out expressions of interest in renewing, <br />amending or discontinuing the CWCB efforts to implement water use efficiency and <br />water education activities in response to the Colorado Water Conservation Act of 1991 <br />(H.B.91-1154). In the process, I have found a great deal of support for continuing these <br />programs among leaders in both the environmental and water development communities <br />and I have yet to encounter anyone that wants to alter the programs significantly or <br />discontinue them. <br /> <br />The two people who worked most intensely to organize and gain approval for the <br />1991 Act, Dick MacRavey and Jo Evans, feel strongly that the program should be <br />continued and urge support for legislation that would simply remove the sunset date (July <br />I, 1999). Both also support authorization of another increment of funding for the <br />demonstration grant component of these activities. However, the two of them had <br />different ideas about legislative sponsors and it is no longer clear whether we will see one <br />or more bills proposed on this topic. Dick MacRavey advises that State Representative <br />Dorothy Gotlieb and State Senator Ken Chlouber are interested in this legislation. Jo <br />Evans has been out of town recently, and I don't know whether she also has lined up <br />sponsors, but it is conceivable we will have more than one bill proposing this good work! <br /> <br />With respect to the demonstration grant opportunities, we previously used <br />$500,000 from the Construction Fund to support demonstration projects in the municipal <br />setting and another $500,000 for demonstration projects in the "aglmulti-purpose" <br />setting. Unless the bill sponsors have strong feelings in this regard, I think there is strong <br />support for these demonstration grants and recommend that the Board evaluate the <br />availability of additional Construction Fund moneys for this purpose after evaluating the <br />demand for other project funding. <br /> <br />xc: Dick MacRavey <br />Jo Evans <br />