BOARD00992

• Board Meeting Date: 1/22/2003
• Description: State and Federal Legislative Issues
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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board construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department of
natural resources, the sum of one hundred ninety thousand dollars
($190,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to conduct a study
of water yields resulting from forest management practices.
(3) The moneys appropriated in subsection (2) of this section shall
remain available for the designated purposes until the project is
completed.
SECTION 15. Statewide water supply initiative -
appropriation. (1) The Colorado water conservation board is hereby
authorized to contract with a responsible contractor for the purpose of
preparing a reconnaissance-level study of a statewide water supply
initiative. The initiative will investigate all aspects of water supply and
water demand in Colorado over the next thirty years by evaluating water
supply and water management project alternatives in each river basin of
the state, formulating water development strategies for the
implementation of the most promising alternatives in each basin, and
building a consensus among the state's water users as to which
alternatives and strategies should be pursued for implementation. The
initiative is to be conducted in fiscal year 2003-04, with the final report
completed by November 15, 2004.
(2) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby
appropriated, out of any moneys in the Colorado water conservation
board construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Colorado
water conservation board, the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000),
or so much thereof as may be necessary, to conduct the statewide water
supply initiative.
(3) The moneys appropriated in subsection (2) of this section shall

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