Sixty-second General Assembly
LLS NO. R990856.01 Pam
Cybyske
STATE OF COLORADO
BY REPRESENTATIVES Young, Berry, Coleman, Gotlieb, Grossman, Hoppe, Johnson, Miller, Plant, Smith, Spradley;
also SENATOR Wattenberg.
ENGROSSED
AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND NATURAL RESOURCES
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 991019
CONCERNING THE SPECIES CONSERVATION ELIGIBILITY LIST.
WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 2433111
(2), Colorado Revised Statutes, the Species Conservation Trust
Fund has been created in the state treasury to fund programs designed
to conserve native species that have been listed as threatened
or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate species,
or are likely to become candidate species, as determined by the
United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 2433111
(3), Colorado Revised Statutes, the Executive Director of the
Department of Natural Resources, after consulting with the Colorado
Water Conservation Board and its Director, the Wildlife Commission,
and the Director of the Division of Wildlife, has prepared and
delivered to the General Assembly a Species Conservation Eligibility
List describing programs and associated costs that are eligible
to receive funding from the Species Conservation Trust Fund; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 2433111
(3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to obligating funds from
the Species Conservation Trust Fund the Species Conservation Eligibility
List is subject to modification and adoption through the passage
of a joint resolution approved by a majority vote of both houses
of the General Assembly; and
WHEREAS, House Bill 981006, enacted at the
Second Regular Session of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly,
appropriated $10 million to be placed in the Species Conservation
Trust Fund for expenditures related to native species; and
WHEREAS, These expenditures shall be used for activities
that are conducted in voluntary cooperation with landowners; and
WHEREAS, The General Assembly deems the recommended
expenditures described in the Species Conservation Eligibility
List to be in the interest of the people of the state; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives
of the Sixtysecond General Assembly of the State of Colorado,
the Senate concurring herein:
(1) That the Executive Director
of the Department of Natural Resources is authorized to obligate
and expend $1,151,000 from the Species Conservation Trust Fund
for the following activities, programs, and species:
(a) From the capital account of the Species
Conservation Trust Fund:
PROGRAM/ SPECIES AMOUNT
(I) San Juan / Upper Colorado $ 222,000
Endangered Fish Recovery
Programs
(II) Platte River Basin $ 300,000
Cooperative Species
Program
(III) Preble's Meadow $ 250,000
Jumping Mouse
Conservation
(IV) Conservation of Aquatic $ 304,000
Species of Special
Concern/Species at Risk
Subtotal $1,076,000
(b) From the operations and maintenance
account of the Species Conservation Trust Fund for the Executive
Director of the Department of Natural Resources, in cooperation
with the Commissioner of Agriculture, to retain an independent
biologist for the purpose of assessing the appropriateness of
listing the prairie dog and mountain plover as threatened and
endangered species under federal law, the amount of:
PROGRAM/ SPECIES AMOUNT
Prairie Grassland Species $ 75,000 Subtotal $ 75,000
Grand total $ 1,151,000
Be It Further Resolved, That this resolution be presented to the Governor for signature pursuant to Article V section 39 of the state constitution.