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21LSO-0307
ORIGINAL Senate
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SF0037
ENROLLED ACT NO. 6,
SENATE
SIXTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2021 General Session
AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing specified level I and level II studies; providing appropriations; requiring reports; providing for the reversion of unexpended funds; authorizing unobligated funds to be used to complete other designated projects as specified; extending reversion and study dates; transferring funds from water development account I to water development account II; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
[2021-2022 WATER PROGRAM]
[AUTHORIZED LEVEL I AND LEVEL II STUDIES]
Section 1
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LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES – NEW DEVELOPMENT
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account I, as created by W.S. 41
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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, 2024 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 2023 legislative session:
[LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]
Project
Location
Appropriation
Hoback River Watershed
Sublette, Lincoln
Study
and Teton Counties
$277,000
Lander Water Master Plan
Fremont
County
$208,000
Nordic Ranches Water Master Plan
Lincoln
County
$63,000
Upton Water Master Plan
Weston
County
$153,000
Wheatland Water Master Plan
Platte
County
$125,000
Lake Hattie Reservoir Full
Utilization Study
Albany
County
$250,000
UW Water Research Program
Statewide
$283,454
Total appropriation for Section 1
$1,359,454
Section 2
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LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – NEW DEVELOPMENT
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account I, as created by W.S. 41
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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, 2024 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 2023 legislative session:
[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]
PROJECT
LOCATION
APPROPRIATION
Big Horn Regional
Transmission
Washakie County
$146,000
Byron Rural Water Supply
Big Horn County
$127,000
Gillette Water System
Improvements
Campbell County
$150,000
Little Snake River Valley
Water Supply, Phase II
Carbon County
$163,000
Total appropriation for Section 2
$586,000
Section 3.
LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES – REHABILITATION
. The following sums of money are appropriated from water development account II, as created by W.S. 41
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124(a)(ii), to the water development commission to be expended to conduct the following reconnaissance studies as defined in W.S. 41
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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, 2024 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 2023 legislative session.
[LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - REHABILITATION]
Project
Location
Appropriation
Highland Irrigation District
Master Plan
Sublette County
$192,000
Total appropriation for Section 3
$192,000
Section 4.
2020 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 150, Section 4 is amended to read:
Section 4.
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
F
unds
appropriated to the Highland Hanover ID Pump Station project
not obligated prior to July 1, 2023 shall revert to water development account II.
Funds appropriated to the LaPrele Irrigation District Rehabilitation, Phase II project not obligated prior to July 1, 2024 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 2022 legislative session
on the Highland Hanover ID Pump Station study and prior to the 2023 legislative session on the LaPrele Irrigation District Rehabilitation, Phase II study
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[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - REHABILITATION]
PROJECT
LOCATION
APPROPRIATION
Highland Hanover ID Pump
Station
Washakie County
$75,000
LaPrele Irrigation
District Rehabilitation,
Phase II
Converse County
$650,000
$4,950,000
Total
2020
appropriation for Section 4
$725,000
Total 2021 appropriation for Section 4
$4,300,000
Special conditions for the LaPrele Irrigation District Rehabilitation, Phase II study: The
LaPrele Irrigation District shall seek funding for the study from other sources. If the district obtains funding from any other source, the district shall, to the extent possible, reimburse the commission for any costs previously expended for the study from this appropriation. Reimbursed funds shall be deposited into water development account II. If the district obtains funding from another source but is unable to reimburse the commission, the district shall complete the study using funding from any other source before using funding appropriated under this section, provided funding appropriated under this section may be used for any cost share requirements upon approval of the commission and the select water committee.
Section 5.
2018 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 94, Sections 2 and 5 is amended to read:
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
F
unds
appropriated to the GR-RS-SC JPWB Pump Station Sweetwater and Transmission,
Lander Test Well Study and Little Snake River Valley Municipal Water Supply projects
not obligated prior to July 1, 2021 shall revert to water development account I.
Funds appropriated to the Fontenelle Dam and Outlet Works Infrastructure Completion and the Glendo Reservoir Full Utilization Project projects not obligated prior to July 1, 2024 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
:
on the GR-RS-SC JPWB Pump Station Sweetwater and Transmission, Lander Test Well Study and Little Snake River Valley Municipal Water Supply studies and prior to 2023 legislative session on the Fontenelle Dam and Outlet Works Infrastructure Completion and the Glendo Reservoir Full Utilization Project studies.
[LEVEL I FEASIBILITY STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]
Project
Location
Appropriation
Fontenelle Dam and
Outworks
Outlet Works
Lincoln and
Infrastructure
Sweetwater
Completion
Counties
$750,000
Glendo Reservoir Full
Utilization Project
Platte
County
$750,000
GR-RS-SC JPWB Pump Station Sweetwater
and Transmission
County
$180,000
Lander Test Well Study
Fremont
County
$2,340,000
Little Snake River Valley
Municipal Water Supply
Carbon
County
$135,000
Total
2018
appropriation for Section 2
$4,155,000
Total 2021 appropriation for Section 2
$0
Section 5.
TIME EXTENSION FOR LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS
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In the 2015 Omnibus water bill – planning, 2015 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 168, Section 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
the Shell Valley Storage – Leavitt Reservoir project
and appropriated funds
for that project
not obligated prior to July 1, 2021 shall revert to water development account III.
A six (6) year time extension is granted for the Clear Creek Storage and Nowood River Storage – Alkali Cr. projects and funds appropriated for those projects but not
obligated prior to July 1, 2024 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
:
on the Shell Valley Storage – Leavitt Reservoir project study and prior to the 2023 legislative session on the Clear Creek Storage and Nowood River Storage – Alkali Cr. studies.
[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS]
Project
Location
Appropriation
Clear Creek Storage
Johnson County
$700,000
Nowood River Storage –
Bighorn,
Alkali Cr.
Washakie
Counties
$4,000,000
Shell Valley Storage –
Big Horn
Leavitt Reservoir
County
$4,500,000
Total 2015 appropriation for Section 5
$9,200,000
Total 2018 appropriation for Section 5
$0
Total 2021 appropriation for Section 5
$0
Section 6.
The Wyoming water development commission is hereby authorized to transfer four million three hundred thousand dollars ($4,300,000.00) from water development account I created by W.S. 41-2-124(a)(i) to water development account II created by W.S. 41-2-124(a)(ii) for the LaPrele Irrigation District Rehabilitation, Phase II study.
The appropriation of funds for the LePrele Irrigation District Rehabilitation, Phase II study in Section 4 of this act is contingent upon this transfer of funds to water development account II.
Section 7
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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
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(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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