SB23-177 Summary

• Appropriates $380,000 for satellite monitoring system operation and maintenance for water rights administration in the 2023-24 fiscal year.

• Appropriates $500,000 for the Colorado floodplain map modernization program to assist communities with revised floodplain studies and maps.

• Appropriates $500,000 for the weather modification permitting program to assist water districts with cloud seeding programs for snowpack enhancement.

• Transfers $2,000,000 from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund to the fish and wildlife resources fund for mitigation grant-making on July 1, 2023.

• Transfers $2,000,000 to restore the litigation fund balance for addressing compact compliance and other water-related litigation activities on July 1, 2023.

• Appropriates $1,000,000 for the water forecasting partnership project to support remote sensing data, hydrologic modeling, and water supply forecasting.

• Appropriates $800,000 to develop a mobile field data collection application for division of water resources employees.

• Transfers $19,000,000 from the severance tax perpetual base fund to support the Platte river recovery implementation program for endangered species compliance.

• Transfers $15,000,000 from the severance tax perpetual base fund to support the upper Colorado river endangered fish recovery program and San Juan river basin recovery implementation program.

• Appropriates $20,000,000 for the 2023-24 fiscal year for the Frying Pan-Arkansas project cost-share funding to provide drinking water to six counties in the lower Arkansas valley.