Species Conservation Trust Fund Projects

Species conservation trust fund projects - appropriation - transfers. The act appropriates $3.9 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 list as threatened or endangered or that are candidate species or are likely to become candidate species as determined by the United States fish and wildlife service, allocated as follows:

• Native terrestrial wildlife conservation, $615,500;
• Native aquatic wildlife conservation, $839,000;
• Platte river recovery implementation program, $1,940,000;
• Colorado river basin native fish recovery programs, $205,500; and
• Federal endangered species act litigation program, $300,000.

On July 1, 2019, the act transfers $600,000 from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund to the species conservation trust fund.

For the 2019-20 state fiscal year and each of the 4 subsequent state fiscal years, the act transfers $5,000,000 from the severance tax operational fund to the species conservation trust fund.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)