Water And Irrigation - Digest of Bills

Digest of Bills - 1997

WATER AND IRRIGATION

S.B. 97-8 Water conservation board - project authorization and deauthorization - studies - appropriations. Authorizes the water conservation board to expend moneys on the following:

Certain enumerated water projects;
The Colorado river compact decision support system;
The satellite monitoring system maintenance;
The continuation of the extreme precipitation study and revisions to the national oceanic and atmospheric agency atlas;
The continuation of the Roaring Fork and Arkansas rivers multi-objective management plans;
A statewide river rehabilitation and floodplain management needs inventory;
The Chatfield reservoir reallocation study;
The Tamarack project and continuation of demonstration projects;
The Grand Valley water management project and native aquatic species facilities;
Salinity control program loans.

Deauthorizes certain projects authorized in previous years. Changes the amount authorized for a certain project in a previous year. Authorizes the restoration of the previous balance in the emergency infrastructure repair loan account balance. Increases the amount of money in the Arkansas river augmentation loan account from $1,500,000 to $3,000,000. Creates the Horse Creek basin account.

Exempts any account in the Colorado water conservation board construction fund from paying the state treasurer management fee.

Appropriates $4,000,000 to the department of natural resources for allocation to the water conservation board from the severance tax trust fund perpetual base account for the Eagle Park Reservoir rehabilitation project.

APPROVED by Governor May 21, 1997
EFFECTIVE May 21, 1997

S.B. 97-151 Water conservation board - fish and wildlife resources account - interest - use of species recovery grants. Allows all interest earned from investment of the moneys in the fish and wildlife resources account in the Colorado water conservation board construction fund to be credited to that account. Exempts moneys in the account from the state treasurer management fee.

Provides that species recovery grants from the fish and wildlife account may be made to implement proposals to enhance fish and wildlife resources that address the needs of federally protected species and are consistent with state water policy.

APPROVED by Governor June 4, 1997
EFFECTIVE June 4, 1997