BOARD00761

• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2002
• Description: 63rd General Assembly Issues
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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water resources, including, withoul limiting the generality of the foregoing, facilities for water supply and treatment,

facilities for streamflow improvement, dams, reservoirs, and other impoundments, water lransmission lines, SEWERAGE

FACILITIES, water wells and well fields, pumping stations and works for underground water recharge, stream-monitoring

systems, facilities for the stabilization of stream and river banks.

SECTION 20 37-95-107.6 (4) (c), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended, and the said 37-95-107.6 (4) is further

amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH, to read:

37-95-107.6. Creation and administration of water pollution control revolving fund. (4) (c) No funds may

be expended from the water pollution control revolving fund or bonds issued by the authority pursuant to subsection (6) of

this section for any wastewater treatment system project unless the wastewater treatment system project is on the project

eligibility list approved by the general assembly OR IS AN EMERGENCY PROIECT IN ACCORDANCE WITII PARAGRAPH (d) OF

TIIIS SUBSECTION (4). Financial assistance for a project pursuant to this section may be provided regardless of the rank of

such project on the eligibility list.

(d) THE COLORADO WATER QUALITY CONTROL COMMISSION MAY AMEND TIIE PROJECT ELlGIDILlTY LIST AT ANY

TIME, IN ACCORDANCE WITII ITS REGULAR PROCEDURES, TO INCLUDE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM PROJECTS TIIAT

IT DETERMINES AND DECLARES TO BE EMERGENCY PROJECTS NEEDED TO PREVENT OR ADDRESS THREATS TO TIIE PUBLIC
HEALTH OR ENVIRONMENT. No LATER THAN JANUARY 15 OF EACH YEAR, TIIE AUTIIORITY SHALL PROVIDE TO TIIE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY A LISTING OF ALL EMBRGENCY PROJECTS FOR WHICH MONEYS FROM TIIE w ATERPOLLUTION CON1ROL
REVOLVING FUND HAVE BEEN EXPENDED IN TIIE PRECEDING CALENDAR YEAR.
SECTION 30 37-95-107.6, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW
SUBSECTION to read:

37-95-107.6, Creation and administration of water pollution control revolving fund. (10) THE AUTIIORITY

MAY, ACTING IN ITS DISCRETION AND WITH THE APPROVAL OF TIIE GOVERNOR, TRANSFER MONEYS FROM TIIE WATER
POLLUTION CONTROL REVOLVING FUND TO TIIE DRlNKlNG WATER REVOLVING FUND CREATED AND ADMINISTERED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 37-95-107.8, IF TIIE 1RANSFER OF SUCH MONEYS IS PERMITIED BY APPLICABLE FEDERAL LAW AND
TIIE TERMS OF ANY AGREEMENT BETWEEN TIIE STATE AND THE UNITED STATES RELATING TO TIIE WATER POLLUTION

CONTROL REVOLVING FUND.
SECTION 40 37-95-107.8 (4) (c), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended, and the said 37-95-107.8 (4) is further
.' amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH, to read:
37-95-107.8. Creation and administration of drinking water revolving fund, (4) (c) Moneys shall not be spent

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