BOARD01312

• Board Meeting Date: 1/27/1999
• Description: 1999 Colorado Legislative Activities
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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First Regular Session

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Sixty-second General Assembly
LLS NO. 99-0699.01 Pam Cybyske HOUSE BILL 99-1222

STATE OF COLORADO

BY REPRESENTATIVE Young;
also SENATOR Musgrave.

AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, & NATURAL RESOURCES
APPROPRIA nONS

A BILL FOR AN ACT

101 CONCERNING AUGMENTATION REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER WELL PUMPING
102 IN THE DENVER BASIN AQUIFERS, AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

Bill Summary

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
not necessarily reflect arry amendments that may be subsequently
adopted)

Soecial water committee. Extends the repeal date of the special
water committee to July 1, 200l.
Extends the commencement of more stringent augmentation plans
for pumping from Denver basin aquifers to July 1, 200 l.
Authorizes the special water committee to oversee the state
engineer and the director of the Colorado water conservation board
studies of streambed conductance, stream gain-loss measurements, and
improved simulation of stream-aquifer interaction.
Requires the state engineer and the director of the Colorado water
conservation board to develop an improved ground water model and
improved data collection program to support the development of a
decision support system for the South Platte river basin.
Authorizes the state engineer to promulgate rules to enhance the
collection of data from wells in the Denver basin aquifers,

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly o/the State o/Colorado:
SECTION 1. 37-90-137 (9) (c) (II) and (9) (c.5) (II), Colorado
Revised Statutes, are amended to read:
37-90-137. Permits to construct wells outside designated basins

Capita/letters indicate new materia/to be added to existing stalUle.
Dashes through the words indicate dektions from aisting statute.