BOARD00822

• Board Meeting Date: 4/27/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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SECTION 1. The Colorado Water Conservation Board is
hereby authorized and directed forthwith to make, or cause
to be made, a study of the water resources available from
surface supplies in that part of Colorado which lies west .
of the Continental Divide, and a study of the present and
potential uses thereof to the full extent necessary to a
unified and harmonious development of those waters for bene-
ficial use in Colorado to the fullest extent possible under
the law, including the law created by compacts affecting the
use of said water. The studies so to be made shall include
analyses of the extent to which water may be transferred
from one watershed to another within the state without
injury to the potential economic development of the natural
watershed from which water might be diverted for the develop-
ment of another watershed.

SECTION 2. The Colorado Water Conservation Board is
authorized and empowered to employ such persons, and enter
into such cooperative undertakings with agencies of government
as it may deem advisable for carrying out the work herein
above outlined. The employment in this section referred to is
of such persons as the Colorado Water Conservation Boara finds
may be necessary to meet an emergency by employing temporary
personnel to supplement the work of regular state employees, it
being the purpose of this law to provide for the utmost speed
in accomplishing its purpose. The Colorado Water Conservation
Board may grant such authority as it deems necessary or proper
to the persons it may designate to carry out the provisions
of this law.

SECTION 3. The Colorado Water Conservation Board shall
cause the results of the study hereinabove outlined to be
embodied in a written report, one copy of which shall be held
in the offices of said board as a public record available
for the use of any interested person. Copies of said report
shall be transmitted to each house of the General Assembly and
to the Governor, the State Engineer and the State Planning
Commission and the Game and Fish Commission.

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SECTION 4. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys
in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the use
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board for the performance
of the work hereinabove outlired, and for no other purpose, the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). Said approp-
riation shall become available to the Board upon the effective
date of this act, and any unused portion of said amount remaining
unexpended at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to
the general fund but shall remain for the completion of said
work until December 31, 1955; provided, however, that whenever
such work is completed said board shall so declare, whereupon
any unexpended portion of said fund shall at once revert to

the general fund.