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of the environmental movement, the CWCB began to take on new statuary responsibilities. An integral part of the transition years was the
General Assembly's enactment of laws giving the CWCB its first three major new programs since 1937 – floodplain designations, loans for water project construction and appropriation of instream flow water rights.
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Interbasin Compact Committee The CWCB supports the implementation of the Colorado Water for the 21st Century Act, which created the Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC), with financial, technical and staff support. The CWCB ensures the proper coordination of CWCB information, policies
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The CWCB is almost fully self-funded. The agency does not receive any money from the
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Colorado's water resources. In many ways these two actions define the first 30 years of the agency's history. However, in the 1970s and 1980s the CWCB began to enter into a transitional phase as an agency. With the rise
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Directors, the CWCB acts as the state's most comprehensive water information resource. The agency maintains expertise in a broad range of programs and
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in 1937 for the "purpose of aiding in the protection and development of the waters of the state". The bill decreed that the agency would be run by twelve directors, who convened for the first time on July 13, 1937.
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