BOARD02252

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

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(II) THE COSTS AND BENEFITS, INCLUDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL
COSTS AND BENEFITS, OF SELECT SITES WITHIN THOSE AQUIFERS TO WHICH
THE ASSESSMENT ASSIGNED THE HIGHEST RANKING VALUE; AND

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(III) AN ANALYSIS OF SITE OWNERSHIP ISSUES, AQUIFER
CHARACTERISTICS, PROXIMITY OF THE SITES TO AREAS OF WATER SUPPLY
AND DEMAND, AND EXISTING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE.

(b) IN CONDUCTING THE STUDY, THE BOARD MA Y CONSULT WITH THE
INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMiTTEE, ST ATE ENGINEER, AND ST A TEGEOLOGIST
AS DEEMED NECESSARY.

(c) THE BOARD SHALL SUBMIT A REPORT CONTAINING ITS
CONCLUSIONS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY MARCH I, 2007.

(d) THIS SUBSECTION (5) IS REPEALED, EFFECTIVE JULY I, 2008.

SECTION 2. Appropriation - adjustments in 2006 long bill.
(1) 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 I, 2006, the sum of
one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000), or so much thereof
as may be necessary, for the implementation of this act.

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(2) For the implementation of this act, appropriations made in the
annual general appropriation act to the department of natural resources,
geological survey, for the fiscal year beginning July I, 2006, shall be
adjusted as follows:

(a) The cash fund appropriation from fees shall be decreased by
twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000).

(b) The cash fund appropriation from the operational account of the
severance tax trust fund created in section 39-29-109, Colorado Revised
Statutes, shall be increased by twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000).

SECTION 3. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,

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