BOARD02492

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2005
• Description: Status of Legislation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

recreational matters. Authorizes the committee to:
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Ensure the availability of technical information and data;
Establish and oversee a public education and outreach
process;
Manage the interbasin compact negotiation budget;
Approve proposed compacts for further consideration by
the general assembly and the governor; and
Report to the general assembly on the progress of the
steering committee in meeting its responsibilities and the
status of interbasin compact negotiations no later than
October 31 of each year.
Creates a roundtable in each of the 7 water divisions and creates
north and south metro roundtables consisting of the metropolitan areas of
the South Platte and Arkansas river basins. Authorizes each roundtable
to:
Set its own rules for membership selection and adopt
operational by-laws;
Provide a forum for ongoing intra- and inter-basin
collaboration; and
Develop a basin water needs assessment and proposed
project list.

1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
2 SECTION 1. Title 37, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
3 BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW ARTICLE to read:
4 ARTICLE 75

5 Interbasin Compacts
6 37-75-101. Short title. THISARTICLESHALLBEKNOWNANDMAY

7 BE CITED AS THE "COLORADO WATER FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY ACT".

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9 37-75-102. Waterrights - protections. (1) ITISTHEPOLICYOF
10 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THAT THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF ALLOCATING
11 WATER WITHIN COLORADO SHALL NOT BE SUPERSEDED, ABROGATED, OR

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OTHERWISE IMPAIRED BY TIllS ARTICLE. N01HING IN TIllS ARTICLE SHALL

BE INTERPRETED TO REPEAL OR IN ANY MANNER AMEND THE EXISTING

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