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220:, as a partner, where Eidsness opened an environmental division. After the Larimer Weld Regional Council of Governments was dissolved, the North Colorado Front Range Water Quality Association was formed and continues to carry out the 208 plan under 100% local funding – one of if not the only one of 149 designated planning agencies remaining after federal funding ran out in 1980.
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