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<br />Agenda Item 13
<br />January 22-23, 2002 Board Meeting
<br />
<br />First Regular Session
<br />Sixty-second Gen~ral Assembly
<br />LLS NO, R99-0856,0 I Pam Cybyske
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />(HJR-99~1019)
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<br />BY REPRESENTATIVES Young, Berry, Coleman, GotIieb, Grossman, Hoppe, Johnson, Miller, Plant, Smith, Spradley;
<br />also SENATOR Wattenberg,
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<br />ENGROSSED
<br />AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND NATURAL RESOURCES
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<br />HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 99-1019
<br />,
<br />CONCERNING THE SPECIES CONSERVATION ELIGIBILITY LIST.
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<br />WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 24-33-111 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, the Species Conservation Trust Fund has
<br />been created in the state treasury to fund programs designed to conserve native species that have been listed as
<br />tIueatened or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate species, or are likely to become candidate species,
<br />as determined by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and
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<br />WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, the Executive Director of the Department of
<br />Natural Resources, after consulting with the Colorado Water Conservation Board and its Director, the Wildlife
<br />Commission, and the Director of the Division of Wildlife, has :prepared and delivered to the General Assembly a Species
<br />Conservation Eligibility List describing programs and associa~ed costs that are eligible to receive funding from the
<br />Species Conservation Trust Fund; and
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<br />WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 24-33-1 t I (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to obligating funds from the Species
<br />Conservation Trust Fund the Species Conservation Eligibility List is subject to modification and adoption tIuough the
<br />passage of ajoint resolution approved by a majority vote of both houses of the General Assembly; and
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<br />WHEREAS, House Bill 98-1006, enacted at the Second Regular Session of the Sixty-frrst General Assembly,
<br />appropriated $10 million to be placed in the Species Conservation Trust Fund for expenditures related to native species;
<br />and
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<br />WHEREAS, These expenditures shall be used for activities th*t are conducted in voluntary cooperation with landowners;
<br />and : .
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<br />WHEREAS, The General Assembly deems the recommended :expenditures described in the Species Conservation
<br />Eligibility List to be in the interest of the people of the state; nbw, therefore,
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<br />BeIt Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-second General Assembly of the State afColorado, the
<br />Senate concurring herein:
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<br />(I) That the Executive Director of the Department of Natural Resources is authorized to obligate and expend $1,151,000
<br />from the Species Conservation Trust Fund for the following activities, programs, and species:
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<br />(a) From the capital account of the Species Conservation Trusj Fund:
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<br />PROGRAMI SPECIES AMOUNT
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<br />(I) San Juan I Upper Colorado $ 222,000
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<br />Endangered Fish Recovery Programs
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<br />(II) Platte River Basin $ 300,000
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<br />Cooperative Species Program
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<br />(III) Preble's Meadow $ 250,000
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<br />Jumping Mouse Conservation
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<br />(IV) Conservation of Aquatic $ 304,000
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<br />Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection
<br />Water Supply Protection" Conservation Planning
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