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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Cisneros

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2-17-07

3-3-07 HB

SHORT TITLE Strategic Water Reserve Infrastructure

SB 886/aHAGC

ANALYST Woods

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to HB330

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Office of the State Engineer – Interstate Stream Commission (OSE-ISC)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of HAGC Amendment

House Agriculture and Water Resources Committee amendment to Senate Bill 886 reflects the

following language:

1. On page 2, line 15, strike "related" and after "infrastructure" insert "for the

delivery of water to the location of need".

2. On page 3, line 6, after "condemnation" insert "and may only condemn real

property when that property is needed for infrastructure related to the conveyance of

water".

The amendment adds “need" criteria to payments for administrative and infrastructure costs, as

well as condemnation activities. The amendment adds no appropriation language.

Senate Bill 886/aHAGC – Page

2

Synopsis of Original Bill

Senate Bill 886 seeks to amend Section 72-14-3.3 (A) (the Strategic Water Reserve Act) to

explicitly allow the interstate stream commission to use strategic water reserve funding to

develop, construct, operate and maintain infrastructure related to the strategic water reserve

purposes.

There is no appropriation attached to this legislation.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The Office of the State Engineer, Interstate Stream Commission notes that an example of how

this amendment would be applied would be to make it clear that the interstate stream

commission could use strategic water reserve related funding to construct, operate and maintain a

pipeline to deliver water that it purchased through the strategic water reserve from a well to the

river where the water is needed for compact or endangered species purposes consistent with the

directives in the existing legislation.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

Relates to HB330

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL

The Office of the State Engineer, Interstate Stream Commission opines that the authority of the

interstate stream commission to develop, construct, operate and maintain infrastructure related to

the strategic water reserve would not be as clear as it would be if this bill is enacted.

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