BOARD02252

• Board Meeting Date: 5/16/2006
• Description: Legislative Update - Review of Important Water Legislation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

director of the department of natural resources, after consulting with the
Colorado water conservation board and its director, the wildlife
commission, and the director of the division of wildlife, has prepared and
delivered to the general assembly a species conservation eligibility list
describing programs and associated costs that are eligible to receive funding
from the species conservation trust fund; and

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(c) Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to
obligating funds from the species conservation trust fund, the species
conservation eligibility list is subject to modification and adoption through
the passage of a bill.

SECTION 2. Eligibility list - approval. (1) The general assembly
deems the recommended expenditures described in the species conservation
eligibility list to be in the interest of the people of the state. The moneys
specified in this subsection (I) shall be available in fiscal year 2005-06 and
shall remain available for the designated purposes until they are fully
expended:

(a) The executive director of the department of natural resources is
authorized to obligate and expend one million eight hundred fifty thousand
dollars ($1,850,000) from the operation and maintenance account of the
species conservation trust fund for the following activities, programs, and
species in the following amounts:

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PROGRAM I SPECIES

AMOUNT

Platte River Recovery Program

$ 1,850,000

Total operation and maintenance account
appropriation:

$ 1,850,000

(b) Twenty-six dollars and 7J cents ($26.71) shall revert to the
operation and maintenance account of the species conservation trust fund
from the following activities, programs, and species:

PROGRAM I SPECIES

AMOUNT

(I) COFRS code designation "PG4"

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