BOARD02453

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1998
• Description: 1998 Legislative Issues - HB 98-1188 - Water Resources Act of 1998 - Status Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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1 NECESSARY, THE COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD AND THE
2 DMSION OF WATER RESOURCES SHALL ASSIST, IN COOPERATION WITH ANY .
3 EXISTING PLANNING EFFORTS, IN THE ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL,
4 VOLUNTARY BASIN PLA..'lNING GROUPS ESTABLISHED TO IDENTIFY THE
5 PRESENT AND FtJI1JRE WATER NEEDS, BOTH CONSUMPTIVE AND
6 NONCONSUMPTIVE, IN THE ARKANSAS, NORTH PLAITE, SmITH PLAITE,
7 RIo GRANDE, SAN juAN, GUNNlSON, MAINSTEM OF mE COLORADO, AND
8 Y AMPA/WHITE RIvER BASINS WITHIN COLORADO. PLA..'lNING GROUPS
9 TIiAT ARE OR HAVE BEEN ESTABUSHED, SHALL IDENI'IFYmE FOLLOWING:

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10 (a) EXISTING AND HISTORICAL WATER SUPPLY CONDmONS, WITH
11 PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON FUI1JRE WATER AVAILABILITY AND HISTORICAL
12 DROUGHT PAITERNS;

13 (b) EXISTING .-'-.ND REASONABLY FORESEEABLE WATER NEEDS FOR
14 CONSL~IPTIVE BDlEFlCIAL USES;

15 ( c) EXISTING A."ID REASONABLY FORESEEABLE ENVIRONMDiT AL
16 A."D OTHER :-lONCONSUMPTlVE WATER NEEDS;

17 (d) OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERSTATE WATER COMPACTS A.'lD
18 L'NITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECREES; .

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(e) INTRA-BASIN RIVER .-\D~m;ISTRATIOl'i ISSL"ES;

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(f) ALTER..'iATIVES, INCLUJING STORAGE FACILmES OR OTHER
~lEASL'RES, THAT COL1.D BE L'TILIZED TO ADDRESS THE :D~TIFIED WATER
NEEDS: .-\.'iD

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(g) A'iY IMPED!~miTS TO mE DEVELOP~m.T OF STORAGE
F.>.CILmES OR OTHER MEASURES NECESSARY TO MEET mE ID~TIFlED
WATER NEEDS, J1;CLL1)ING ECOl'iOMIC, TECID<lCAL, LEGAL, OR
REGULATORY IMPEDIMEYrS, .',,'II) .>.LTER.'iATIVES TO OV"ERCOME THOSE
L.\lPEDIM~TS.

37-60-103. Colorado water conservation board and division of
water resources - assistance to basin planning groups. (I) THE
DIVISION OF WATER RESOlo'RCES .-\."ID THE COLOR.-\DO W.>.TER
CONSERVATION acARD SHALL REVlE'.lI .......,<1) CO~~m.T Ll'ON THE WORX OF
TI-:E 3ASIN ?L.....""1NG GROCl'S. CREATED ?L1tSL'....V,TO SECTION 3 i -60-202.
r.-;CLL"Uc-.;G THE .'.L TER.'i.>.TI\'ES IDE:-;, orIED 2' 5ECiON 3i-60-202 (I) (f).

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