BOARD00645

• Board Meeting Date: 9/22/2003
• Description: OWC Section - Technical Assistance to Covered Entities
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Attachment, CWCR Agenda Item # 19

September 15, 2003

37-60-124. Office of water conservation.
creation - powers and duties.

(1) There is hereby created as an office
under the Colorado water conservation board
the office of water conservation. The office
shall have such staff as are necessary and
appropriate to carry out the duties established
for the office.

(2) The office of water conservation shall
promote water use efficiency by performing, to
the degree feasible, duties including, but not
limited to, the following:

(a) Acting as a repository for water use
efficiency information;

(b) Provision of technical assistance to and
working with municipal and other urban water
providers and state agencies as they plan for,
evaluate, and implement water use efficiency
measures to provide necessary water services;

(c) Coordination of the planning for and
assistance in the implementation of water use
efficiency plans by state agencies pursuant to
section 37-96-103 (4);

(d) Administration of financial assistance
for water use efficiency measures and water use
efficiency programs, as authorized in section
37-60-125; and

(e) Preparation for review and approval by
the board for transmittal to the general
assembly such information and
recommendations concerning water use
efficiency projects and proposed water use
efficiency measures by state and local
governments, including the analysis of water
use efficiency programs already in place.

(3) The personal services, operating, travel
and subsistence, capital, and legal services
expenses of administering the office of water

conservation and the programs and activities
authorized by subsection (2) of this section may
be paid from such moneys as are appropriated,
allocated, or otherwise credited to the Colorado
water conservation board construction fund.

(4) Repealed.

Source: L. 91: Entire section added, p.
2023, ~ 4, effective June 4. L. 99: (4) repealed,
p. 25, ~ 1, effective March 5.

37-60-125. Authorizations for
expenditures from Colorado water
conservation board construction fund for
demonstration of benefits of water
efficiency.

(1) The Colorado water conservation board
is hereby authorized to expend five hundred
thousand dollars from the Colorado water
conservation board construction fund,
notwithstanding the requirements of sections
37-60-119 to 37-60-122, for the purpose of a
pilot program demonstrating the benefits of
water efficiency measures by providing
incentive grants, not to exceed fifty thousand
dollars to any public agency, established under
Colorado law, that requests assistance in the
design and implementation of pilot water
efficiency and conservation measures.

(2) The board is further authorized to
expend eighty thousand dollars and 1.5 PrE for
the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1991, for
personal services, operating, travel and
subsistence, capital, and legal services expenses
of administering the pilot program authorized
in subsection (1) of this section from the
Colorado water conservation board
construction fund.

(3) The board shall develop guidelines for
the range of pOtentially eligible projects for the
pilot program authorized in subsection (1) of
this section by October 1, 1991, and shall
establish such criteria and feasibility measures
as will assure that a range of potentially
beneficial projects are demonstrated as part of
the pilot program.