Omnibus water bill-planning.

ORIGINAL
Senate
File No
.
SF0062

ENROLLED ACT NO. 44,

SENATE

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2018 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing specified level I and level II studies; providing appropriations; requiring reports; providing for reversion of unexpended funds; authorizing unobligated funds to be used to complete other designated projects as specified; providing an appropriation for the office of water programs; extending the Platte River Basin endangered species account and providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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

[2018-2019 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 water development 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 prior to July 1, 2021 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 2020 legislative session:

[LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]

Project
Location
Appropriation

Bedford Water Supply Master Plan
Lincoln County
$100,000
Big Sandy Watershed Study
Fremont, Sublette and

Sweetwater Counties
$275,000
Horse Creek Watershed Study
Albany, Goshen, Laramie and

Platte Counties
$284,000
Lower Laramie River Watershed
Albany, Goshen, Laramie
Study

and Platte Counties
$290,000
Middle Big Horn Rive
r
Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park
Watershed Study

and Washakie Counties
$300,000
Osage Water Master Plan
Weston County
$190,000
Popo
Agie
Watershed Study,
Fremont County
Phase II
$235,000
River Basin Planning - GIS
Statewide
Data Model Implementation
$115,000
River Basin Planning –
NHDPlus
Statewide
HR and
Streamstats
–
Phase I and II
$240,000
River Basin Planning – Water
Statewide
Supply Index
$170,000
Saratoga Water Master Plan
Carbon
$175,000
Sheridan Municipal Watershed
Johnson and Sheridan
Wildfire Hazard Mitigation

Counties
Assessment
1.
$165,000
Sheridan Water Master Plan
Sheridan
$250,000
UW Water Research Program
Statewide

_
$285,150
Total appro
priation for Section 1

$3,074,150

Footnote:
1.

No funds shall be expended from this appropriation for the wildfire hazard mitigation assessment until the project sponsor demonstrates to the commission that the sponsor has pursued community or county fire protection funding through the state forester for a similar assessment and funding was not available or not sufficient to fund the assessment.

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 water development 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 prior to July 1, 2021 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 2020 legislative session:

[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]

PROJECT
LOCATION
APPROPRIATION

Fontenelle Dam and Outworks
Lincoln and Sweetwater
Infrastructure Completion

Counties
$750,000
Glendo
Reservoir Full
Platte County
Utilization Project
$750,000
GR-RS-SC JPWB Pump Station
Sweetwater County
and Transmission
$180,000
Lander Test Well Study
Fremont County
$2,340,000
Little Snake River Valley
Carbon County
Municipal Water Supply

$135,000
Total
appropriation for Section 2
$4,155,000

Section 3.

LEVEL II 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 water development 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 prior to July 1, 2021 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 2020 legislative session:

[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - REHABILITATION]

PROJECT
LOCATION
APPROPRIATION

Big Laramie River Oasis Ditch
Albany County
Diversion Rehabilitation
$95,000
Hanover ID Bighorn Flume
Washakie County
Replacement
$65,000
Silver Lake Dam Rehabilitation
Sublette County
$250,000
Total appropriation for Section 3
$410,000

Section 4.

LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account III, as created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(iii), to the water development 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 prior to July 1, 2023 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 2022 legislative session:

[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS]

Project
Location
Appropriation

Cheyenne Municipal Storage
Laramie County
Phase I
$330,000
Total appropriation for Section 4
$330,000

Section 5.

TIME EXTENSION FOR
LEVEL
II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS
. In the 2015
Omnibus water bill – planning,
2015

Wyoming S
ession
Laws, C
hapter 168,
S
ection 5
, the following sums of money were appropriated from water development account III, as created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(iii), to the water development commission to be expended to conduct the following feasibility studies as defined in W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
114. A three (3) year time extension is granted
for those feasibility studies and
appropriated funds not obligated prior to July 1, 2021 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 2020 legislative session:

[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS]

Project
Location
Appropriation

Clear Creek Storage
Johnson County
$
700,000
Nowood
River Storage-Alkali Cr.
Big Horn, Washakie Counties
$
4,000,000
Shell Valley Storage-Leavitt

Reservoir
Big Horn County
$
4,500,000
Total 2015 appropriation for Section 5
$9,200,000
Total 2018 appropriation for Section 5
$0

Section 6.

The Wyoming water development commission is authorized to expend funds from water development account I
,
as created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(
i
), to
contract with the University of Wyoming in an amount not to exceed one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000.00) to
fund the office of water programs established under W.S. 41
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2
‑
125 from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2020.

Section 7.

PLATTE RIVER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM

-

EXTENSION
.
Three million one hundred thousand dollars ($3,100,000.00) is appropriated from water development account I, as created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(
i
), to the Platte River Basin endangered species account for the Wyoming water development offi
ce to fund the state of Wyoming'
s participation in a thirteen (13) year extension of the first increment of the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (PRRIP). Any unexpended balance in the Platte River Basin endangered species account shall be invested by the state treasurer and the interest earned shall be credited to the Platte River Basin endangered species account to meet the cost of inflation over the term of the extension of the first increment of PRRIP
,
scheduled to run from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2032. Expenditures for the extension
under this section
shall not be authorized until the state of Wyoming has entered into
,
and the governor has executed
,
an extension amendment to the cooperative agreement with the United States Department of the Interior and the states of Nebraska and Colorado. Unexpended funds appropriated under this subsection and those funds appropriated in
2006
Wyoming S
ession
L
aw
s,
C
hapter 99,
S
ection 6 shall revert to water development account I on July 1, 2034.

Section 8.

REVERSIONS – NEW DEVELOPMENT
. The following feasibility study, having been suspended by the water development commission, shall be cancel
l
ed and all remaining funds appropriated to the commission for the study, shall revert on the effective date of this act to water development account I, as
created by W.S. 41
‑
2
‑
124(a)(
i
):

[REVERSION - LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]

REMAINING
Project
Location
Appropriation
Lake
DeSmet
Facilities
Johnson County
Acquisition
$200,000
Total reversions for Section 8
$200,000

Section 9.

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
Senate
.

Chief Clerk

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