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7. Add Sections 37-92-103(___) as follows: .NON-TRIBUTARY GROUND WATER IS THAT GROUND WATER WHICH, IF WITHDRAWN, WOULD NOT AFFECT THE FLOW IN A NATURAL STREAM IN AN ANNUAL AMOUNT GREATER THAN ONE PERCENT OF THE MAXIMUM ANNUAL AMOUNT ALLOWED TO BE WITHDRAWN WITHIN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE TIME WITHDRAWAL BEGINS. .NON-RENEWABLE AQUIFER OR PORTION THEREOF MEANS AN AQUIFER OR A PORTION THEREOF IN WHICH THE TOTAL WITHDRAWAL ENTITLED TO BE MADE FROM THAT AQUIFER OR PORTION THEREOF UNDER DECREES AND PERMITS EXISTING AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION REACHES AN AMOUNT WHICH WOULD CAUSE A REDUCTION IN THE AMOUNT OF GROUND WATER IN STORAGE WHICH WOULD NOT RECOVER TO NATURAL LEVELS WITHIN 100 YEARS IF ALL WITHDRAWALS FROM THAT AQUIFER OR PORTION THEREOF STOPPED. THE GROUND WATERS OF THE DAWSON, DENVER, ARAPAHOE, LARAMIE- FOX HILLS AND DAKOTA FORMATIONS SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE NON-RENEWABLE. .NON-TRIBUTARY GROUND WATER RIGHT MEANS A RIGHT TO USE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS PERMIT, OR DECREE IF ONE IS OBTAINED, A CERTAIN PORTION OF NON-TRIBUTARY GROUND WATER OUTSIDE OF A DESIGNATED GROUND WATER BASIN. NON-TRIBUTARY GROUND WATER RIGHTS SHALL NOT BE ADMINISTERED ON THE BASIS OF PRIORITY OF APPROPRIATION AS BETWEEN OTHER RIGHTS TO NON-TRIBUTARY GROUND WATER. 8. Amend Section 37-92-302(1) (a) as follows: 37-92-302. Applications for water rights or changes of such rights - plans for augmentation. (1) (a). Any person who desires a determination of a water right or a conditional water right and the amount and priority thereof, includ- ing a determination that a conditional water right has become a water right by reason of the completion of the appro- priation, a determination with respect to a change of a water right, approval -4-