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• Board Meeting Date: 1/9/1978
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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APPENDIX A

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver. colorado 80203

January 12, 1978

M E M 0 R AND U M

TO: Members, Colorado Water Conservation Board. Colorado Water
Congress Executive co~~ittee and Other Interested Parties

FROM: Felix L. Sparks, Director

SUBJECT: Agenda Item NO.2, Pending legislation re Colorado Water
Conservation Board Construction Fund (Senate Bill 69)

Enclosed herewith is a copy of Senate Bill 69 introduced
into the General Assembly this week by Senator Anderson and others.
This bill relates to the Colorado Water Conservation Board Construc-
tion Fund. The subject matter of this bill was included in the recom-
mended legislative program submitted to theaeneralAssembly by Governor
Lamm. However, the specific appropriation, as hereinafter described,
is a matter which will have to be determined by the General Assembly.

Section 1 of the bill amends the existing statute relating
to the authority of the board to construct water and power projects,
and places special emphasis upon water conservation measures. It is
less than clear under the present law as to the actual scope of the
board's authority in constructing, enlarging or otherwise improving
water and power projects. The present law which Section 1 of SB 69
would repeal and reenact reads as follows:

"The Colorado water conservation board may make available.
for the use of the citizens of the state of Colorado or to any agency
of the state which is, in its opinion, best able to utilize the same,
any or all water and power conserved by any of the projects to which
the state may have ownership or control and may enter into contracts
for the use of said water and ~der with any agency of the state, in-
dividuals, or with organizations composed of citizens of the state of
Colorado. The board may charge such person or agency or organization
using such water and power such charges as, in the opinion of the
board, are necessary and reasonable for the maintenance of the project
and return to the state such portions of the actual costs of the
project and over such term of years as is agreed upon by contract.
Any amount collected as charges over and above the amount necessary to
maintain any particular project and repay the cost of such project
shall become part of the Colorado water conservation board construc-
tion fund."

APPENDIX A