BOARD01949

• Board Meeting Date: 2/13/2001
• Description: Pending and Proposed Legislation - SB 01-157, 2001 CWCB Projects Bill
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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SECTION 8. South Platte river decision support system -
appropriation. (1) The Colorado water conservation board is hereby

3 authorized to commence the design of a decision support system for the
4 South Platte river by retaining a contractor to initiate development of the
5 necessary databases and to collect the required water resources
6 information for development of the surface and groundwater models,
7 consumptive use models, and overall water budget model associated with
8 the decision support system.

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(2) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby

10 appropriated, out of any moneys in the Colorado water conservation board
11 construction fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Colorado water
12 conservation board, for the fiscal year beginning July 1,2001, the sum of
13 two million dollars ($2,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary,
14 for the necessary data collection and design of a decision support system

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for the South Platte river.

16 (3) The moneys appropriated in subsection (2) of this section shall
17 remain available for the designated purposes until the project is
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19 SECTION 9. Lower South Platte water management and
20 storage site study - appropriation. (1) In addition to any other
21 appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
22 Colorado water conservation board construction fund not otherwise
23 appropriated, to the Colorado water conservation board, for the fiscal year
24 beginning July 1, 2001, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars
25 ($500,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the board to
26 contract with a consulting firm to complete a feasibility study of the

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project alternatives identified in the project's.reconnaissance study. The

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