BOARD01344

• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2002
• Description: WSP Section - Native Species Trust Fund Recommendations for FY 2002-03
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Agenda Item 13
January 22-23, 2002 Board Meeting

2000
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 00-1031
LLS NO. ROO-0964.01 Pam Cybyske
STATE OF COLORADO

BY REPRESENTATIVE YOIlllg;
also SENATOR Wattenberg.

CONCERNING THE SPECIES CONSERVATION ELIGIBILITY LIST.

WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 24-33-111 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, the Species Conservation Trust Fund has
been created in the state treasury to fund programs designed to conserve native species that have been listed as
threatened or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate species, or are likely to become candidate species,
as determined by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, the Executive Director of the Department of
Natural Resources, after consulting with the Colorado Water Conservation Board and its Director, the Wildlife
Connnission, and the Director of the Division of Wildlife, has prepared and delivered to the General Assembly a Species
Conservation Eligibility List describing programs and associated costs that are eligible to receive funding from the
Species Conservation Trust Fund; and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to obligating funds from the Species
Conservation Trust Fund the Species Conservation Eligibility List is subject to modification and adoption through the
passage ofajoint resolution approved by a majority vote of both houses of the General Assembly; and

WHEREAS, House Bill 98-1006, enacted at the Second Regular Session of the Sixty-fITst General Assembly,
appropriated $10 million to be placed in the Species Conservation Trust Fund for expenditures related to native species;
and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly deems the recommended expenditures described in the Species Conservation
Eligibility List to be in the interest of the people of the state; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-second General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the
Senate concurring herein:

(1) That the Executive Director of the Department of Natural Resources is authorized to obligate and expend $1,100,000
from the capital account of the Species Conservation Trust Fund for the following activities, programs, and species:

AMOUNT
$ 325,000

PROGRAMI SPEClES
(a) Upper Colorado River
Nonnative Fish Control Programs
(b) Preble's Meadow $ 250,000
Jumping Mouse Habitat Protection in Conjunction
with the Habitat Conservation Plans

(c) Conservation of Aquatic Species
(I) South Platte Native Species $ 225,000
(II) Native Cutthroat Trout $ 300,000
Enhancement in accordance with the Colorado-Wyoming-Utah Conservation Agreement and Strategy
Total $1,100,000

Be It Further Resolved, That this resolution be presented to the Governor for signature pursuant to section 39 of article V
. of the state constitution.

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning