Bill No.: SF0068 Drafter: MQ
LSO No.: 09LSO-0334 Effective Date: 2/25/2009
Enrolled Act No.: SEA0025
Chapter No.: 38
Prime Sponsor: Select Water Committee
Catch Title: Omnibus water bill-construction.
Subject: Provides authorization and funding for water development projects approved for final construction.
Summary/Major Elements:
Authorizes the water development office to transfer up to 33,000 acres feet of storage water per year from the Pathfinder reservoir to the Wyoming-Nebraska state line for the purpose of providing regulatory certainty under the Endangered Species Act for the use of Wyoming water in the Platte River basin.
Also authorizes the transfer of 9600 acre feet of storage water per year from the Pathfinder reservoir to the Wyoming-Nebraska state line if not needed by the state of Wyoming as a municipal water supply.
Above authorized transfers are to fulfill the state's obligations in the Nebraska v. Wyoming settlement agreement.
2009 New development Projects
Basin Storage Tank
Casper Paradise Valley Pipeline
Dubois Water Supply
Hudson Water Supply
Laramie County Archer Water Supply
Mile-Hi Water Supply
Pine Bluffs Deep Well 2009
Pinedale Pipelines-Phase I
Rawlins Reservoir and Pipeline-Phase I
Riverton Water Supply
Shoshone Municipal Pipeline – 2009
Star Valley Ranch Water Supply
Teton Village Water Supply
Upton Well
Wamsutter Well
Rehabilitation Construction Projects
Big Horn Canal Rehabilitation 2009
Casper Alcova Rehabilitation 2009
Deaver Rehabilitation 2009
Eden Valley Rehabilitation 2009
Goshen Rehabilitation 2009
GVID Upper Sunshine Division-Phase I
Lovell Rehabilitation 2009
Riverton Valley Rehabilitation 2009
Shoshone Rehabilitation 2009
Willwood Rehabilitation 2009
Riverton Valley Pipeline Relocation
Amendments to Prior Projects
Washakie Rural Water Supply Project
Riverton Raw Water Supply Rehabilitation Project
LeClair Laterals Rehabilitation Project
Gillette Madison Pipeline Joint Bonding
Green River Supply Canal Rehabilitation
Lake DeSmet Rehabilitation
Worland Eastside Transmission Line
Pathfinder Modification Project
Sundance Well Project
Glendo Well
Midvale Canal Rehabilitation
Glenrock Well
Laramie Transmission Pipeline
Sidon Rehabilitation
Comments:
See also the companion water bill, HB 100, Omnibus water bill-planning.