CO SB181

Appropriates $300,000 for satellite monitoring system maintenance including gauging station renovation, collection platform replacement, and stream gauge flood hardening projects for fiscal year 2013-2014.

Appropriates $175,000 to continue weather modification program assisting water conservation districts with cloud-seeding programs for snowpack enhancement.

Appropriates $500,000 for Colorado floodplain map modernization program to prepare revised floodplain studies and maps for communities statewide.

Appropriates $250,000 for watershed restoration and flood mitigation planning and engineering studies throughout Colorado.

Establishes severance tax perpetual base fund administered by Colorado Water Conservation Board and restructures severance tax operational fund allocation procedures for water projects, minerals, energy, geology, and wildlife programs.