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<br />671 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />HR. PRESIDENT: The Committee recommends that <br />Senate Bill No. 113, as printed, be amended by striking <br />all below the enacting clause and inserting the following: <br />, <br /> <br />SECTION 1. Article 147-18, Colorado Revised <br />Statutes 1953, is hereby amended to read as follows: <br /> <br />Section 147-18-1. The General Assembly hereby <br />finds and declares that the people of the State of Colorado <br />have, by the rapid depletion of the ground-water resource, <br />placed in jeopardy the continued use of such ground-water <br />for municipal, agricultural and industrial purposes; that <br />this condition has been caused by increased rate of with- <br />drawal from the underground water resource without adequate <br />attention to the recharge of such resource and by failure <br />to conserve to the full the rainfall and snow packs that re- <br />charge underground water; and that the depletion of the <br />underground water resource will increase until and unless <br />constructive control providing for the conservation and pre- <br />servation of the underground water resource is established <br />by law over the entire state. It is to accomplish this pur- <br />pose and to insure the health, prosperity and welfare of the <br />state of Colorado and the citizens thereof that this act is <br />created, and it shall be construed liberally in order that <br />the purposes herein expressed may be accomplished. <br /> <br />Section 147-18-2. Definitions. (1) The term <br />"ground-water user" as used herein shall mean any individual, <br />partnership, association or corporation authorized to do bus- <br />iness in the state of Colorado, the state of Colorado or any <br />political subdivision or public agency thereof, or any agency <br />of the United States of America, making a beneficial use, or <br />taking steps or doing work preliminary to making a beneficial <br />use of underground waters of Colorado. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />" <br />(2) The terms "underground water" and "ground water <br />are used interchangeably herein and refer to any water not <br />triputary to a natural surface stream. <br /> <br />(3) The term "aquifer" means a geological forma- <br />tion that contains or transmits ground water. <br /> <br />(4) "State engineer" as used herein refers to <br />the state engineer of Colorado or any person deputized by <br />him in writing to perform a duty or exercise a right granted <br />or enjoined herein, but no deputization shall relieve the <br />state engineer of full responsibility for the act or acts <br />of any person deputized by him. <br />