Species Conservation Trust Fund Projects
HB23-1274
LAST ACTION: Sent to the Governor 05/9/2023
Concerning an appropriation for species conservation trust fund projects.
SESSION: 2023 Regular Session
SUBJECT: Natural Resources & Environment
BILL SUMMARY
The bill appropriates $5 million from the species conservation trust fund for programs submitted by the executive director of the department of natural resources that are designed to conserve native species that state or federal law lists as threatened or endangered or that are candidate species or are likely to become candidate species for such listing as determined by the United States fish and wildlife service, allocated as follows:
$750,000 for native terrestrial wildlife conservation;
$1,500,000 for native aquatic wildlife conservation;
$2,200,000 for the upper Colorado river endangered fish recovery program and the San Juan river basin recovery implementation program;
$50,000 for selenium management, research, monitoring, evaluation, and control; and
$500,000 for the federal endangered species act litigation program.
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)