BOARD01057

• Board Meeting Date: 1/22/2003
• Description: Colorado Watershed Protection Fund - Grant Program Guidance
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

&:oIorado Water Conservation Board
~epartment of Natural Resources
1313 ShermallStreet, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

Bill Owens
Governor

MEMORANDUM

Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director

To:

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Colorado Water Conservation CWCB Members

From:

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

Rod Kuharich

Date: January 8, 2003

Re: Agenda Item 11
Colorado Watershed Protection Fund - Grant Program Gnidance

Introduction

~t the November Board meeting, the Board was presented with the draft grant program guidance for the
W:olorado Watershed Protection Fund, a tax checkoff program that the General Assembly created in the 2002
legislative session. The Board members and the general public were asked to forward their comments to staff
by December 31, 2002. No connnents were received. Attached is the final grant program guidance document
that Staff requests the Board adopt at this meeting.

Background

The purpose of the Colorado Watershed Protection Fund is to, "assist in the restoration and the protection of
lands and natural resources within watersheds of the state", by providing grants "for local watershed efforts".

The CWCB and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), in cooperation with the
Colorado Watershed Assembly will administer the program. However, the CWCB will administer the funds.

In October information describing the program was prepared for the Department of Revenue to meet their
printing deadlines for the 2002 state tax forms. Simultaneously, two CWCB representatives (Carolyn McIntosh
and Rod Kuharich), two representatives ofCDPHE, CWCB staff, CDPHE staff, and representatives of the
Colorado Watershed Assembly began preparing a Grant Program Guidance document that is attached.

Following the Board's adoption of the Grant Program Guidance, representatives from the agencies involved
will prepare an application form that will be available March 1, 2003. Applications for funding will be due
April 30, 2003. Funds will be available July 1,2003 and, based on the level of funding available, applications
will be approved July 31, 2003. Grants will be awarded September 30,2003.

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