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• 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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to the extent that similar authority is vested in ground water management

2 districts pursuant to section 37-90-130 (2), the ground water commission

3 is empowered:

4 (g) Upon application therefor by any permit holder, to authorize
5 a change in acreage served, volume of appropriation, place, time, or type
6 of use of and by any water right, or of any well location, either
7 conditional or final, granted under the authority of the commission but
8 only upon such terms and conditions as will not cause material injUl)' to
9 the vested rights of other appropriators. No such change whic;h THAT
10 increases the volume of appropriation qexpnd that authorized by the
11 original decree, conditional permit, registration statement, or other well
12 permit issued prior to basin designation shall be authorized, and no such
13 change shall be approved until after publication of such application as

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provided in section 37-90- 112; EXCEPT THAT PUBLICATION SHALL NOT BE

15 REQUIRED TO .-'J'PROVE A TE1,IPORARY CHA1'lGE PURSUANT TO THE RULES
16 ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSION AND except that publication shall not be
17 required for replacement er stlb:;tirutc; wells whic;h THAT are relocated no
18 further than the maximum distance allowed by disnict rules and
19 regulations without plior board approval or by commission policy where
20 no district exists or where no district rule has been adopted.
21 SECTlO;\ 10. 37-90-113 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes. IS

22 amended to read:

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37-90-113. Hearings. (2) In any hearings required to be

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conducted bv the ~ommission. it mav. in its discretion, have such hearin~s'
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conducted before such agent as it may designate, either alone or in

conjunctIon with the appearance of the commission if the agent IS

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