BOARD01694

• Board Meeting Date: 2/13/2001
• Description: Pending and Proposed Legislation - HB 01-1024, Whirling Disease/Hatchery Cleanup Incentives
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION 1. Fish hatchery project loan authorization from the
Colorado water conservation board construction fund. (1) Pursuant
to section 37-60-122, Colorado Revised Statutes, the Colorado water
conservation board is hereby authorized to loan moneys to enable
commercial aquaculturists, as defined in section 35-24.5-103 (7),
Colorado Revised Statutes, whose aquaculture facilities are fish
production facilities that test positive for myxobolus cerebralis to make
any such facility achieve a myxobolus cerebralis negative certification
from the division of wildlife in the department of natural resources, or
prevent the introduction of myxobolus cerebralis to any aquaculture
facility or prevent the spread of myxobolus cerebralis, by:
(a) Rendering all originating water sources at the facility free of
all fish and enclosed so as to prevent outside contamination by myxobolus
cerebralis, including by a change of water right;
(b) Constructing all rearing spaces and water conveyances of
concrete, fiberglass, steel, or other manufactured impermeable materials
that are not conducive to colonization by the alternate oligochaete hosts
of myxobolus cerebralis; and
(c) Installing best available technology to maintain water quality
by controlling the spread of contamination by myxobolus cerebralis from
any such facility to waters of the state.
SECTION 2. Recognition of economic impacts on private
producers. The division of wildlife shall pursue actions that encourage

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