BOARD01726

• Board Meeting Date: 3/22/2005
• Description: Current State Legislative Issues
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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at addressing needs within basins and will include analysis of a wide
array of in-basin and interbasin processes and concepts.
(2) The amounts appropriated in this section are in addition to
amounts appropriated and unexpended previously for the statewide water
supply initiative. Under no circumstance shall the amount authorized
under this section exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). The
moneys appropriated in subsection (I) of this section shall remain
available for the designated purposes for two years.
SECTION 18. Conservation reserve enhancement prograrn .
appropriation. (1) In addition to any other appropriation, there is
hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Colorado water
conservation board construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the
department of natural resources for allocation to the division of wildlife,
for the fiscal vear beginning Julv 1. 2005. the sum of seventy-five
thousand dollars ($75,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to
support an FIE to provide technical services as required for the
development and implementation of the Colorado conservation reserve
enhancement program to improve water quality, reduce water
consumption, and advance wildlife habitat in the Republican, Rio
Grande, and South Platte river basins.
(2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall
remain available for the designated purposes until they are fully
expended.
SECTION 19. Restoration ofOood response fund balance. The
state treasurer shall transfer a total of one hundred fifty thousand dollars
($150,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the unreserved
cash in the Colorado water conservation board construction fund to the

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