S.B. 07-8 Water efficiency grant program - eligibility standards - appropriation. Allows any state or local governmental entity that provides water at retail to customers to participate in the water efficiency grant program administered by the Colorado water conservation board. Extends the repeal of the program to July 1, 2012. Transfers revenues from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund to the water efficiency grant program cash fund.
Appropriates $82,749 and 1.0 FTE to the department of natural resources for allocation to the Colorado water conservation board for the implementation of the act.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2007
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2007
S.B. 07-122 Colorado water conservation board construction fund - project authorization - appropriation. Loans $75,750,000 for the city of Aurora water activity enterprise - prairie waters project pipeline from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund (construction fund). Loans $60,600,000 to the Southeastern Colorado water conservancy district water activity enterprise and $8,844,570 to the Penrose water district water activity enterprise from the severance tax trust fund perpetual base account. Decreases a prior water project loan and grant authorization from the construction fund. Creates the stream gauge fund and transfers moneys from the construction fund to the stream gauge fund.
Appropriates the following amounts from the construction fund for the following projects:
● $350,000 for satellite monitoring system maintenance;
● $40,000 for the upper Arkansas river basin ground water bibliography;
● $200,000 for the upper Arkansas river basin decision support system feasibility study;
● $200,000 for the Colorado decision support system modeling and engineering support services;
● $40,000 for the snowmelt timing study;
● $500,000 to continue flood map modernization;
● $250,000 for the floodplain decision support system;
● $600,000 to continue the Chatfield reservoir reallocation study;
● $150,000 to continue the weather modification program;
● $150,000 for the drought mitigation planning technical assistance program;
● $500,000 for evaluating water needs and alternatives analysis;
● $65,000 for CCC ditch rehabilitation on the San Miguel river;
● $150,000 for the water conservation public awareness research study;
● $1,500,000 for the South Platte river and Arkansas river basins alternative agriculture water transfer sustainability grant program;
● $100,000 for the Rocky Mountain fen demonstration project; and
● $1,000,000 for community-based approaches to forest restoration.
Continuously appropriates to the Colorado water conservation board all revenue from weather modification permit fees. Increases the board's authority to make loans without legislative approval from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000.
Transfers $300,000 from the unreserved cash in the construction fund to the flood response fund in order to restore the unencumbered balance in the flood response fund.
Makes certain provisions contingent on the passage of House Bill 07-1130.
APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2007
EFFECTIVE May 31, 2007
NOTE: House Bill 07-1130 was signed by the governor May 29, 2007.
S.B. 07-220 Conservation districts - Rio Grande - financial powers. Adds powers to the Rio Grande water conservation district (district) analogous to those possessed by other conservation districts. Allows subdistricts of the district to finance official water plans with service charges and user fees. Clarifies the methods and procedures for the financing of subdistricts and the creation and approval of official water plans.
APPROVED by Governor May 25, 2007
EFFECTIVE May 25, 2007
H.B. 07-1012 Water rights - instream flows - protection of loaned right. Excludes from consideration in an analysis of historic consumptive use the period of time during which a loaned water right is used by the Colorado water conservation board for instream flow purposes. Exempts from the definition of abandonment of a water right the nonuse of the water as a result of the loan of water to the board for instream flows.
APPROVED by Governor March 14, 2007
EFFECTIVE August 3, 2007
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning
the effective date, see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 07-1056 Conservancy districts - conservation districts - board of directors - compensation limits. Increases to a maximum of $2,400 per year the compensation payable to directors of conservancy districts. Increases to a maximum of $100 per day the compensation payable to directors of the Colorado river water conservation district, the Rio Grande water conservation district, and the Republican river water conservation district.
APPROVED by Governor April 2, 2007
EFFECTIVE April 2, 2007
H.B. 07-1088 Grand Junction drainage district - name change - Grand Valley drainage district - elections - board of directors - compensation. Changes the name of the Grand Junction drainage district to the Grand Valley drainage district (district).
Clarifies that persons residing in each division of the district and qualified to vote at general county elections shall be entitled to vote for the director representing that division on the board of directors.
Establishes that special elections may be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in February, May, October, or December, except for ballot issue elections, which may be held only in a state general election, the regular district election, or on the first Tuesday in November of odd-numbered years.
Increases the maximum per diem compensation for directors of the district to $100 per day, not to exceed $1,600 per year as fixed by the board of directors of the district.
APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2007
EFFECTIVE January 1, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning
the effective date, see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 07-1096 Colorado water resources research institute - severance tax trust fund - appropriation. For the 2007-08 fiscal year, appropriates from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund $150,000 to the department of higher education to be used by the Colorado water resources research institute.
APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2007
EFFECTIVE May 31, 2007
H.B. 07-1132 Water rights - change adjudications - use and point of diversion - water quality term. When a water judge issues a decree for a change of type of use of irrigation water rights that permanently transfers more than 1,000 acre-feet of consumptive use of water per year from irrigation to another use, allows the water judge to include a term or condition that addresses decreases in water quality caused by the change if the change would cause or contribute to an exceedance of water quality standards established by the water quality control commission that are in effect at the time of the decree or, if ordered by the court, subsequently adopted by the commission prior to the entry of the decree, for the stream segment at the original point of diversion. Specifies that the applicant is responsible for only that portion of the exceedance attributable to the proposed change. Prohibits the term or condition from being inconsistent with the state clean water act or the federal law regarding water quality-impaired stream segments. Specifies that the act shall not be interpreted to confer standing on any person to assert injury who would not otherwise have such standing.
APPROVED by Governor March 12, 2007
EFFECTIVE March 12, 2007
H.B. 07-1305 Water bank program - eliminate repeal. Eliminates the repeal of the water bank program.
APPROVED by Governor April 9, 2007
EFFECTIVE April 9, 2007
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