BOARD02340

• Board Meeting Date: 1/27/1999
• Description: 1999 Colorado Legislative Activities - HB 99-1050 - Process and Funding for Development of Water Projects
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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RIGHTS THAT ASSIST IN MEETING EXISTING AND REASONABLY
FORESEEABLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND OTHER NONCONSUMPTIVE WATER
NEEDS;
(C) THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS, CONFLICTS, AND COMPATIBILITIES
AMONG THE VARIOUS BASINS' IDENTIFIED PLANNING NEEDS AND

ALTERNATIVES;
(d) ALTERNATIVES mAT COULD BE UTILIZED TO MEET
COLORADO'S WATER NEEDS IN ADDmON TO THOSE IDENTIFIED BY TIIE
BASIN PLANNING GROUPS.
(3) No LATER THAN MARCH 1, 2003, THE COLORADO WATER
CONSERVATION BOARD AND TIIE DIVISION OF WATER 'ltESOURCES, AFTER
CONSULTATION WITH LOCAL PLANNING GROUPS AND AFTER A PUBLIC
HEARlNG IN EACH RIVER BASIN, SHALL REPORTTOTIIE GENERALASSEMBL Y
THE RESULTS OF THE BASIN STUDIES AND THE STATE'S EVALUATION OF
ALTERNATIVES mAT COULD BE UTILIZED TO MEET IDENu..t'll:.l) WATER
NEEDS WITH THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING HOWTIlESTATECAN
ASSIST IN THE IMPLEMENTATION Of IDENTIFIED ALTERNATIVES THAT
COULD BE UTILlZED TO MEET COLORADO'S WATER NEEDS.
37-60-204. Mitigation requirements. (1) THECOLORADOWATER
CONSERVATION BOARD AND TIIE DMSION OF WATER RESO~CES SHALL
IDENTIFY, IN CONSULTATION WITH TIlE BASIN PLANNI1':IG GROUPS,
REGULATORY AUTHORITIES, ANP OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES:
(a) THE SOCIAL, ECONOMlC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND'
BENEIDS CAUSED BYTIIE IMPLEMENTATION OFIDEN lJ..t' il:.ll WATER SUPPLY

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ALTERNATIVES; AND
(b) POTENTIAL MITIGATION OPTIONS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS SUCH

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