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22LSO-0344
ORIGINAL House
Bill No
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HB0073
ENROLLED ACT NO. 51,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SIXTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2022 Budget 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; providing an appropriation for the office of water programs; extending reversion and study dates; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
[2022-2023 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 study that are in excess of the actual amount necessary to complete the study may, subject to the review and recommendation of the select water committee, be expended by the commission to complete any other reconnaissance study listed in this section. Appropriated funds not expended or obligated prior to July 1, 2025 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 2024 legislative session:
[LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]
Project
Location
Appropriation
Clarks Fork Upper Shoshone
Watershed Study
Park County
$396,000
Dayton Water Master Plan
Sheridan
County
$167,000
Riverton Regional Water
Master Plan
Fremont
County
$256,000
UW Water Research Program
Statewide
$310,277
Total appropriation for Section 1
$1,129,277
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 study that are in excess of the actual amount necessary to complete the study may, subject to the review and recommendation of the select water committee, be expended by the commission to complete any other feasibility study listed in this section. Appropriated funds not expended or obligated prior to July 1, 2025 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 2024 legislative session:
[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - NEW DEVELOPMENT]
PROJECT
LOCATION
APPROPRIATION
Cloud Seeding: Operations
Hydrological Assessment Medicine
Bow & Sierra Madre Mountain
Albany and Carbon
Ranges
Counties
$300,000
Fontenelle Reservoir Storage
Lincoln and Sweetwater
Counties
$1,700,000
LaGrange Groundwater Supply
& Improvements
Goshen County
$725,000
Pavillion Groundwater Supply
Fremont County
$687,000
Total appropriation for Section 2
$3,412,000
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 study that are in excess of the actual amount necessary to complete the study may, subject to the review and recommendation of the select water committee, be expended by the commission to complete any other reconnaissance study listed in this section. Appropriated funds not expended or obligated prior to July 1, 2025 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 2024 legislative session:
[LEVEL I RECONNAISSANCE STUDIES - REHABILITATION]
Project
Location
Appropriation
Critical Aging Irrigation
Infrastructure Assessment
Statewide
$500,000
West Afton/Nield String
Master Plan
Lincoln County
$88,000
Total appropriation for Section 3
$588,000
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
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124(a)(ii), to the water development commission to be expended to conduct the following feasibility study as defined in W.S. 41
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114. Appropriated funds not expended or obligated prior to July 1, 2025 shall revert to water development account II. The commission shall submit a report to the legislature on the following study prior to the 2024 legislative session:
[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES - REHABILITATION]
Project
Location
Appropriation
Dowlin Diversion Rehabilitation
Albany County
$110,000
Total appropriation for Section 4
$110,000
Section 5.
There is appropriated one hundred seventy
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five thousand dollars ($175,000.00) to the water development commission from water development account I
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as created by W.S. 41
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124(a)(i),
to fund the office of water programs established under W.S. 41
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125 for the period beginning July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024. This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2024.
Section 6.
2017 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 65, Section 5 is amended to read:
Section 5.
LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS
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(a)
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
that
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
any other
feasibility study
for any other project
listed in this section.
Appropriated
Except as provided in subsection (b), appropriated
funds not obligated prior to July 1, 2022 shall revert to water development account III.
The
Except as provided
in subsection (b), the
commission shall submit a report to the legislature on each of the following studies prior to the 2021 legislative session:
[LEVEL II FEASIBILITY STUDIES – DAMS AND RESERVOIRS]
PROJECT
LOCATION
APPROPRIATION
Big Wind River Storage Study, Fremont County
$475,000
Phase II
Greybull Valley ID Storage
Big Horn and Park
$500,000
Enlargement, Phase II
Counties
Little Wind River Storage
Fremont County
$475,000
$625,000
Study, Phase II
New Fork Lake Dam Enlargement, Sublette County
$450,000
Phase II
Stateline Dam Enlargement,
Uinta County
$300,000
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Phase II
West Fork Reservoir, Phase III
Carbon County
$6,220,000
Total
2017
appropriation for Section 5
$8,420,000
Total 2022 appropriation for Section 5
$150,000
Footnotes:
(a)
(1)
Funds from this appropriation shall not be expended until the water development commission has accepted the Level II, Phase I Meeks Cabin Dam Enlargement study.
(b)
Funds not obligated prior to July 1, 2027, for the Little Wind River Storage Study, Phase II and the West Fork Reservoir, Phase III studies, shall revert to water development account III. The commission shall submit a report to the legislature on each of these studies prior to the 2026 legislative session.
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 House.
Chief Clerk
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