WSP04743

• File Number: 2200
• Description: Laws-Acts-Policy Rulings Affecting CWCB and Colorado Water - State
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/19/1979
• Author: CO DNR
• Title: Department of Natural Resources - Colorado - Organizational and Functional Summary
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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DEPARTHENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Office of Land Resources

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DIVISION: BOARD OF LAND COMHlSSIONERS
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I. RELATED STATUTES ili~D FEDERAL LAWS

Sec. 7 thru IS-Enabling Act-1875 Article IX-Colorado Constitution-
1876 Colorado Revised Statutes-1973-Title 36 -- Legal Citations

Charge or Mandate

Constitutional charge to direct, control, dispose of and manage certain
Trust Lands in ~he State of Colorado, the largest being the Public School
Trust for educational purposes, as well as the University Trust, Public
Buildings Trust, Penitentiary Trust, Parks and Outdoor Recreation Trust
(Internal Improvement Lands) and Agricultural College Trust. Management
of these trust lands was entrusted to the State government as custodian
tor its people.

I I. PROcRAHS

Program Title: Land Management

To provide for the location, protection, sale or other disposition and use
of all lands heretofore or hereafter granted to the state by the general
government along with lands that escheat to the state. State Trust Lands
have become important assets and sources of revenue for the state. Because
of the direct relation of management to benefit derived from the lands,
proper management is of material importance.

Target Public: User clients-Ranchers-Farmers-Oil, Cas, and Mineral Industry;
Recreational, educational and Scientific Organizations, Commercial and
Industrial Agencies as well as state - federal - county - and local governments.

l'url)Us~: To g~llcrntc optimum revenues for deposit to tIle accounts of the
trust beneficiaries. The funds collected from the state lands go to the
beneficiaries of the various trusts, which funds. contribute to the yearly
operating costs of the beneficiaries, therefore, representing a significant
savings to the taxpayers of the state. Our program is designed to promote
the multiple use as well as the highest and best use of state land with the
ultim~lte go~l of obtaining the maximum return in income to the trusts through:

a. Leasing lands for multiple and best use and return per acre.
b. Issuing rights-of-way or easements for public roads, pipelines,
transmission lines, schools, etc.
c. Selling land at opportune times to increase the permanent funds.

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