BOARD00534

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1998
• Description: 1998 Legislative Issues - Amendments to the Ground Water Management Act of 1965
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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available for appropriation under section 37-90-107. THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS SUBPARA.GRAPH (I) SHALL NOT APPLY TO A WELL DESCRIBED IN A

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3 CONDITION,\L PERMITISSUED ON 0R AFTER JULY I, 1991, TO WITHDRAW

4 DESIGNATED GROUND WATER FROM THE DAWSON, DENVER, ARAPAHOE,

5 OR LARAMIE-Fox HILLS AQUIFERS.
6 (II) A FIN..\!. PERMIT IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE ISSUED FOR A WELL
7 DESCRIBED IN A CONDITIONAL PERMIT ISSUED ON OR AFTER JULY I, 1991,
8 TO VvlTHDRAW DESIGNATED GROUND WATER FROM THE DAWSON, DENVER.,
9 ARAPAHOE, OR L.A.RAMIE-Fox HILLS AQUIFERS. FOR SUCH A WELL, A
10 CONDITIONAL PERMIT, SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS OF ISSUANCE OF SUCH
II A PERMIT, SHALL BE CONSIDERED A FINAL DETEIUvllNATION OF A WELL'S
12 WATER RIGHT IFTHE WELL IS IN COMPLL"-''''CE WITH ALL OTHER APPLICABLE

13 REQUIREMENTS OF THIS ARTICLE.

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(4) The procedural requirement that a statement of beneficial use

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15 shall be filed shall apply to all permits wherein the water was put to

16 beneficial use since May 17, 1965. If information pertaining to

17 completion of the well as required in subsection (I) of this section has

18 been received but e\idence that water has been placed to beneficial use

19 has not been received as of three years from AFTER the date of issuance

20 of the conditional pennit, the commission shall so notify the applicant by

21 certified maiL The notice shall give the applicant the opportunity to

22 submit proof that the water was put to beneficial use prior to three years

23 from .-'.FTER the date of issuance of the conditional permit. Inn. atle t6

24 o:ctl3r.bk flc;ket. ifl:l.eh-el"l'eflCe, or mistake, thc apj:llieallt failed !0 .;ubmn

25 tJ;e c..-idmec Jll time. The proof must be received by the commiSSIOn

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\\ithin twenty days ef .-\FTER receipt of the norice by the applicant and: F

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