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ftmd in accordance with the purposes and priorities described in swsectian (1) of this section. (b) There is hereby created within the department of local aff~rs an energy inpact assistance advisory conmittee. The cOlllD1ttee shall be conposed of the executive director of the department of local affairs, the executive director of the department of natural resources, the conunissioner of education the execu!ive director of. the state department of highways, and four resldents of areas ~acted by energy conversion or mineral resource developnmt. The four residents shall be appointed by the governor for tenns not exceeding four years to serve at the pleasure of the governor. The executive director of the department of local affairs shall act as chairman of the COI1IIlittee. MBnbers of the COIIIIIittee shall serve without additienal conq>ensatien; except that the four uenbers from energy impact areas shall be entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses. MY IIIlnber of the COI1IIlittee who is a state official may designate representatives of his agency to serve en the COI1IIlittee in his absence. The chairman shall convene the advisory COI1IIlittee from time to time as he deems necessary. Such advisory COI1IIlittee shall continuously review the existing and potential inpact of the development, processing, or energy cenversien of mineral and fuel resources on verious areas of the state, including those areas indirectly affected, and shall make continuing reconmendatians to the department of local affairs, including, but not limited to, those actions deemed reasonably necessary and practicable to assist impacted areas with the problems occasioned by such development, processing, or energy cenversien, the iImediate and projected problems which the local governments are experiencing in providing governmental services, the extent of local tax resources available to each mit of local government, the extent of local tax effort in solving energy impacted problems, and other problems which the areas have experienced, such as housing and envirarunental considerations, which have developed as a direct result of energy illpact. (c) The executive director of the department of local affairs shall file with the general assenbly annually before the first day of February a detailed accomting of the distribution of ftmds for the previous year. SECTlrn 3. Appropriatien. (1) There is hereby appropriated from the Colorado water conservation board constroction ftmd created by section 37-60-121, Colorado Revised Statutes 1973, as 8IIIlI1ded, effective Jme I, 1977, the SUIII of seven ndllion seven hmdred five thousand dollars ($7,705,000), or so roch thereof as may be necessary, for water conservation projects, to be allocated in the order of priority as listed as ftmds becane available as follows: PAGE 3-SFNATE BILL NO. 35 2458