BOARD02492

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

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lie It enacted by Ihe Generai Assembiy oflhe Slale ofCoiorado:
SECTION 1. Legislative declaration. (I) Pursuant to:
(a) Section 24-33-111 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, the species
conservation trust fund has been created in the state treasury to fund
programs designed to conserve native species that have been listed as
threatened or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate
species or are likely to become candidate species as determined by the
United States fish and wildlife service;
(b) Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, the
executive director of the department of natural resources, after consulting
with the Colorado water conservation board and its director, the wildlife
commission, and the director of the division of wildlife, has prepared and
delivered to the general assembly a species conservation eligibility list
describing programs and associated costs that are eligible to receive
funding from the species conservation trust fund; and
(c) Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to
obligating funds from the species conservation trust fund, the species
conservation eligibility list is subject to modification and adoption
through the passage of a bill.
SECTION 2. Eligibility list - aooroval. (I) The general
assembly deems the recommended expenditures described in the species
conservation eligibility list to be in the interest of the people of the state.
The monevs sDecified in this subsection (I) shall be available in fiscal
vear 2004-05 and shall remain available for the designated purposes until
they are fully expended:
(a) (1) The executive director of the department of natural

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