BOARD01671

• Board Meeting Date: 3/20/2000
• Description: Current Legislative Issues
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

&:oIorado Water Conservation Board

~epartment of N amral Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.dnr.state.co.us/cwcb

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Bill Owens
Governor

MEMORANDUM

Greg E.Walcher
Executive Director

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

Peter H. Evans
eWeB Director

Dan McAuliffe

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

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March 13,2000

Agenda Item 6, March 20-21, 2000 Board Meeting
Current Legislative Issues

. Attached is a chart showing the status of current legislative issues that are being followed by the
.olorado Water Congress and our staff. .

Of particular interest are:

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HB 00-1314 that allows the DO W to reintroduce the Bonytail chub;

HB 00-1419 the CWCB projects bill (which was amended by the House Appropriations Committee
to include the $300,000 Pine River Irrigation Co. loan);

HB 00-1429 that appropriates additional funds into the state Native Species Conservation Trust Fund
(the resolution that allows funds to be appropriated from the fund has not yet been introduced):

HB 00-1438 that repeals the CWCB's ability to use conditional water rights for instream flows in the
Yampa River Basin; and,

SIR 006 that supports passage of the federal long-term funding for capital projects designed to
facilitate the recovery of endangered fish.

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I will bring several copies of each bill to the meeting.

We are expecting two additional bills to be introduced: a bill to make permanent the Special Water
Committee and a "Growth Water Supply" bill. We will supply information as it becomes available.

.'IOOd Control aod Floodplain Management .Larry Lang, Chief. Watet Project Planning and Construction. Mike Serlet, Chief. Instream Flows and Watet
Rights Investigations-Dan Merriman, Chief. Interstate Streams Investigations-Randy Seaholm, Chief_ Office of Conservation Planning-William Stanton,
Chief. Personnel and Budget -Susan Maul, Chief