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The bill appropriates the following amounts for the 2023-24 state
fiscal year from the Colorado water conservation board (CWCB)
construction fund to the CWCB or the division of water resources in the
department of natural resources for the following projects:
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Continuation of the satellite monitoring system, $380,000
(section 1 of the bill);
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Continuation of the floodplain map modernization
program, $500,000 (section 2);
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Continuation of the weather modification permitting
program, $500,000 (section 3);
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Continuation of the watershed restoration program,
$500,000 (section 6);
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Continuation of the Colorado Mesonet project, $150,000
(section 7);
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Continuation of the weather forecasting partnership project,
$1,000,000 (section 8);
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Support for the division of water resources mobile field
data collection application project, $800,000 (section 9);
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Continuation of the reservoir enlargement assessment
project, $1,000,000 (section 11);
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Support for the central Colorado water conservancy district
augmentation efficiency project, $3,000,000 (section 15);
and
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Support for the state water plan action advancement
project, $2,000,000 (section 16).
The bill directs the state treasurer to transfer the following
amounts on July 1, 2023, from the severance tax perpetual base fund to
the CWCB construction fund, and appropriates those amounts from the
CWCB construction fund to the CWCB for the following projects:
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Continuation of the Platte river recovery implementation
program, $19,000,000 (section 12);
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Support for the upper Colorado river endangered fish
recovery program and the San Juan river basin recovery
implementation program, $15,000,000 (section 13); and
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Additional and continued support for the Frying Pan -
Arkansas project, $20,000,000 (section 14).
The bill directs the state treasurer to transfer the following
amounts from the CWCB construction fund on July 1, 2023:
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$2,000,000 to restore the fish and wildlife resources fund
(section 4);
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Up to $2,000,000 to the CWCB litigation fund (section 5);
and
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$2,000,000 to the water plan implementation cash fund for
continuation of the water plan implementation grant
program (section 10).
Section 17 appropriates $10,600,000 of sports betting revenues
from the water plan implementation cash fund and $2,000,000 from the
CWCB construction fund to the CWCB to fund grants that will help
implement the state water plan.
Section 18 appropriates $8,000,000 from the wildlife cash fund to
the division of parks and wildlife to purchase up to 924 acre-feet of
orphan shares from the CWCB as part of the Chatfield reservoir
reallocation project.
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