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WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE
BILL

NO.
0072

ENROLLED ACT NO. 49, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2014 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing specified Level I and Level II studies and providing appropriations; requiring reports; provi
ding for reversion of uncontracted
funds;
providing funding for the
U
niversity of Wyoming office of water programs;
authorizing unobligated funds to be used to complete other designated project studies under certain conditions;

and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

[20
14
-20
15
WATER PROGRAM]

[AUTHORIZED LEVEL I AND LEVEL II STUDIES]

Section 1.

LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES – NEW DEVELOPMENT
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account I, as created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(i), to the commission to be expended to conduct the following reconnaissance studies as defined in W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
114. Funds appropriated under this section for a particular project which are in excess of the actual amount necessary to complete the study may, subject to the review of the select water committee, be expended by the commission to complete the reconnaissance study for any other project listed in this section.
Appropriated funds not obligated by contract
prior to July 1,
2017
shall revert to water development account I. The commission shall submit a report to the legislature on each of the following studies prior to the
201
6 legislative session:

[LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]

Project
Location
Appropriation

Buffalo Master Plan
Johnson County
$190,000
Deaver Master Plan
Big Horn County
125,000
Greybull Tank and Master Plan
Big Horn County
200
,000
Laramie Master Plan

Albany
County
25
0,000
Medicine Bow River Watershed

Study
Albany/Carbon Counties
375,000
Meeteetse Master Plan
Park County
125,000
Moorcroft Master Plan
Crook County
135,000
North Fork Shoshone Water Supply
Park County
150,000
Platte River Basin Plan Update
Albany, Carbon, Converse,

Fremont, Goshen, Laramie,
Natrona, Niobrara, Platte,

Sublette and Sweetwater
Counties
350,000
Thermopolis Master Plan
Hot Springs County
135,000
Upper North Platte Watershed

Study
Carbon County
375,000
Statewide Water Research
Statewide

319
,000
Total appropriation for Section 1

$2,
729
,000

Section 2.

LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – NEW DEVELOPMENT
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account I, as created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(i), to the commission to be expended to conduct the following feasibility studies as defined in W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
114. Funds appropriated under this section for a particular project which are in excess of the actual amount necessary to complete the study may, subject to the review of the select water committee, be expended by the commission to complete the feasibility study for any other project listed in this section.
Appropriated funds not obligated by contract
prior to July 1,
2017
shall revert to water development account I. The commission shall submit a report to the legislature on each of the following studies prior to the
2016 legislative session:

[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]

PROJECT
LOCATION
APPROPRIATION

Indian Paintbrush Water Supply
Teton
County
$
200
,000
Means First Extension Master

Plan/Gillette Regional

Connection
Campbell County
120,000
Midvale Irrigation District

Hydropower Study
Fremont
County
150,000
Pinedale Hydropower Study
Sublette County
125,000
South Big Horn County Rural

Water District Expansion
Big Horn County
100,000
Sundance Water System

Feasibility Study
Crook County
183,000
Weather Modification Study -
Lincoln and Sublette

Wyoming Range

Counties

200,000
Total appropriation for Section 2
$
1,078,000

Section 3.

L
EVEL I
RECONNAISSANCE
STUDIES –
REHABILITATION
. The following sums of money are appropriated
from water development account
II, a
s created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(i
i), to the commission to be expended to conduct the following reconnaissance studies as defined in W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
114.
Appropriated funds not obligated by contract
prior to July 1,
2017
shall rever
t to water development account
II. The commission shall submit a report to the legislature on each of the following studies prior to the
2016 legislative session:

[LEVEL I
RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - REHABILITATION
]

Project
Location

Appropriation

Bench Canal Company Master Plan
Big Horn County
$170,000
Willwood Irrigation District

Master Plan
Park County

160,000
Total appropriation for Section 3
$
330
,000

Section
4
.

L
EVEL I
I

FEASIBILITY
STUDIES –
REHABILITATION
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account II, as created
by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(ii), to the commission to be expended to conduct the following
feasibility
studies as defined in W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
114. Funds appropriated under this section for a particular project which are in excess of the actual amount necessary to complete the study may, subject to the review of the select water committee, be expended by the commission to complete the
feasibility
study for any other project listed in this section.
Appropriated funds not obligated by contract
prior to July 1,
2017
shall revert to water development account II. The commission shall submit a report to the legislature on each of the following studies prior to the
2016 legislative session:

[LEVEL I
I

FEASIBILITY
STUDIES -
REHABILITATION
]

Project
Location

Appropriation

Cokeville Tri-Diversion

Rehabilitation
Lincoln County
$100,000
Lower Clear Creek Irrigation

District-Leiter Ditch
Sheridan County
100,000
Piney Cruse Diversion
Sheridan County

75,000
Total appropriation for Section
4
$
275
,000

Section
5
.

L
EVEL I
I

FEASIBILITY
STUDIES – STORAGE
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account III, as created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(iii), to the commission to be expended to conduct the following
feasibility
studies as defined in W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
114. Funds appropriated under this section for a particular project which are in excess of the actual amount necessary to complete the study may, subject to the review of the select water committee, be expended by the commission to complete the
feasibility
study for any other project listed in this section.
Appropriated funds not obligated by contract
prior to July 1,
2017
shall revert to water development account III. The commission shall submit
a report to the legislature on each of the following studies prior to the
2016 legislative session:

[LEVEL I
I

FEASIBILITY
STUDIES - STORAGE]

Project
Location

Appropriation

Big Wind River Storage Study
Fremont County
$350,000
Cottonwoo
d/Grass Creek

Watershed

Project
Hot Springs County
101,000
Little Wind River Storage Study
Fremont County
350,000
Middle Piney Dam Reservoir
Sublette County
300,000
Nowood River Storage
Big Horn and Washakie

Counties
225,000
Shell Valley Storage
Big Horn County
150,000
Viva Naughton Enlargement
Lincoln
Count
y

375
,000
Total appropriation for Section
5
$
1,851
,000

Section 6.
The Wyoming water development commission is authorized to contract with the University of Wyoming in an amount not to exceed one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000.00) from water development account I to fund the
o
ffice of
w
ater
p
rograms established under W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
125 from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2016
.

Section 7
.

REVERSIONS
– NEW DEVELOPMENT
. The followin
g sums of money having been appropriated to the commission for the following reconnaissance studies, shall revert to
water development account I, as created by W
.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(i)
:

[LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]

Project
Location
Appropriation

Osmond Pipeline Master Plan

(2013 Appropriation)
Lincoln County
$
75
,000

Total reversions for Section 7

$75
,000

S
ection
8.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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