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<br />water conservation board for use i1s instream flows, subject to <br />requirements that the state engineer !determine that such temporary <br />instream flows will not injure existing water rights of others. <br /> <br />1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: <br />2 SECTION 1. 37-83-105, Colo~ado Revised Statutes, is amended <br />3 to read: <br />4 37-83-105. Owner may loan water right - drought loans to <br />5 Colorado water conservation board for instream flows. (1) It is lawful <br />6 for the owners of ditches and water rights taking water from the same <br />7 stream to exchange with, and loan to, each other, for a limited time, the <br />8 water to which each may be entitled, for the purpose of saving crops or <br />9 using the water in a more economical manner; except that the owners <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br />making such loan or exchange shall give notice in writing, signed by all <br />the owners participating in said loan ~r exchange, stating that such loan <br /> <br />12 or exchange has been made and for what length of time the same shall <br />13 continue, whereupon said division engineer shall recognize the same in <br />14 his OR HER distribution of water. <br />15 (2) (a) IN ANY BASIN OR CQUNTY IN WHICH THE GOVERNOR <br />16 DECLARES A DROUGHTEMERtlaNC1 O~INWHIc}IANYOTHEREMERGENCY <br />17 ISDECLAR.ED, WATER RIGHT OWN~RS MAY LOAN WATER TO THE <br />18 COLORADO W ATER CONSERVATION B6ARD FOR USE AS INSTREAM FLOWS <br />19 FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS, SUBJECT TO <br />20 THE FOLLOWING: <br />21 (1) PRIOR TO ACCEPTING THE LOAN, THE COLORADO WATER <br />22 CONSERVATION BOARD SHALL COMPILE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE <br />23 DURATION OF THE LOAN, A DESCRIPTION OF THE ORIGINAL POINTS OF <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />DIVERSION, AND OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION SUFFICIENT FOR THE <br /> <br />-2" <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />1320 <br />