BOARD00505

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1998
• Description: 1998 Legislative Issues - Declining Species Conservation Funding
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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DIVISION OF WILDLIFE HAS DETERMINED MAY HCOATE THE NEED TO LIST

A SPECIES AS THREATENED OR ENDANGERED OR, IN THE CASE OF
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PREVIOUSLY LISTED SPECIES, MAY HASTEN ITS REMO'/.\f. FROM TIlE LIST.

(5) Maximization of funds. THE COLORADO. WATER

CONSERVATION BOARD AND THE WILDLIFE COMMISSION SHALL MAXIMIZE

FUllElS }~~fROfIli!.TI:D fROr1THE SPECIES CONSERVATION TRUST FUND BY
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APPLYING FOR AVAILABLE GRANTS" FEDERAL GRANTS AND VOLUNTARY
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CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE ACCEPTED ^ BY TIlE C8l.GR.\&8 ',\',\TER

CONSERVATION SO/_'ll;) TO c.\.~.R': OUT TIlE FUR."OSES or7;-Hls SECTION.

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SUCH GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SHALL BE PLACED IN THE SPECIES

CONSERVATION TRUST FUND CREATED IN SUBSECTION (2) OFTHIS SECTION,

NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT THE AUTHORITY

OF THE COLORADO DIVISION OF WILDLIFE TO MANAGE OR REGULATE
No n.>NVII'J'" Sl\-Plt..l,. I}€. AaEP'TE'D, AP~"€.P, 01: USED TO '''''''ATE"ffi{:;").
GAME, NONGAME, OR THREATENED OR ENDANGERED SPECIES,^NOTHING "'~
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IN THIS SECTION IS INTENDED TO BE CONSTRUED AS A MECHANISM TO ~~
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SUBSTITUTE FUNDING THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE AVAILABLE FOR ~n
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EXPENDITURE. BY THE DIVISION" OR TO REPLACE OR REDUCE THE g ~

OBLIGATION OF THE DIVISION TO CARRY OUT NONGAME PROGRAMS UNDER ~C!
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TITLE 33, CR.S. ~~
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SECTION 2. Appropriation. In addition to any other ~~
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appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the )~
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general fund not otherwise appropriated, to the species conservation trust ~<7
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fund, created in section 24-33-111 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, for the . ."

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fiscal year beginning July I, 1998, the sum of

dollars ($ ), or so

much thereof as may be necessary, for the implementation of this act.

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