BOARD02252

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

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operational account of the severance tax trust fund created in section

39-29-109, Colorado Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to the

office of the governor, for the director of compact negotiations, for the

fiscal year beginning July 1,2006, the sum of seventy-five thousand eight

hundred thirty-seven dollars ($75,837) and 0.5 FTE, or so much thereof

as may be necessary, for the on-going implementation of article 75 oftitle

37, Colorado Revised Statutes.

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

appropriated, out of any moneys in the operational account of the

severance tax trust fund created in section 39-29-109, Colorado Revised

Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to the department of natural

resources, Colorado water conservation board, for the fiscal year

beginning July 1,2006, the sum of eight hundred fifty-five thousand four

hundred eighty-one dollars ($855,481) and 1.2 FTE, or so much thereof

as may be necessary, for the on-going implementation of article 75 of title

37, Colorado Revised Statutes, including basin roundtable meetings,

interbasin compact committee meetings, a water needs assessment

refinement, and public education outreach.

(3) The moneys appropriated in subsections (1) and (2) of this

section shall remain available for the designated purposes until they are

fully expended.

SECTION 7. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,

detennines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate

preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.

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