BOARD02249

• Board Meeting Date: 11/23/1998
• Description: CF Section - Special Purpose Accounts - Feasibility Study Small Grant Account - Creation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
721 Centennial Building
'313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

STATE OF COLORADO

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Roy Romer
Governor

James s. Lochhead
Executive Director, ONR
Oaries C. ute, P.E.
Director, CWeB
Peter H. Evans
Acting Director, ewes

MEMORANDUM

TO:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

William P. Stanton, P.E. ~.
Chief, Project Planning and Construction Section

FROM:

DATE:

November 19, 1998

SUBJECT: Agenda Item 27b, November 23-24,1998, Board Meeting-
Water Project Construction Loan Program - Special Purpose Accounts
Feasibility Study Small Grant Account - Creation

Introduction

This memo is in support of a staff initiative to create an account in the Construction for the purpose of
making small grants to water users to help pay for the costs of preparing feasibility studies in
conformance with the CWCB Construction Fund Guidelines.

Background

The General Assembly allocated up to $35,000 in 1992 from the CWCB Construction Fund for a Small
Dam Site Reconnaissance Program to help water users identify small water supply projects. The
money was used to prepare reconnaissance level investigations for 22 different dam sites. In 1993, at
the Board's recommendation, the Legislature allocated an additional $50,000 from the Construction
Fund to continue the program. Subsequently several grants up to $5,000 each to help pay for feasibility
study investigations have been made, and we expect to deplete our current authorization for the Small
Dam Site Reconnaissance Program by the end of the fiscal year.

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