§ 99-99-205 — Authorization of Stage II

Wyoming § 99-99-205

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 99: Water Projects
• Ch. 99: 9

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(a) Subject to completion of the report of the feasibility
study and holding of public hearings by the interdepartmental
water conference as required by W.S. 41-2-114 and 41-2-115,
Stage II is authorized.
(b) Stage II shall be given priority in the year 1979 by
the state agencies and officials responsible to act hereunder.
Appropriate draft legislation, which shall include funding,
shall be submitted to the 1980 session of the legislature in
accordance with W.S. 41-2-115. The feasibility report shall
include in addition to contents otherwise required:
(i) A statement of the relative costs of water to
users for various possible state and municipal cost shares;
(ii) A statement of the needs for water up to the
year 2000 for the city of Cheyenne and surrounding communities
at a minimum of three (3) different levels of population growth;
(iii) A statement of the needs for water up to the
year 2000 at a minimum of three (3) different levels of
population growth for the counties of Laramie, Albany, Carbon,
Natrona, Converse, Niobrara, Goshen and Platte and other users
of municipal water from the North Platte River tributaries that
may have insufficient water for probable growth;
(iv) A statement of the amount of water from Stage II
that could be used to meet the needs identified in paragraph
(iii) of this subsection. Nothing contained herein or any
actions taken hereunder shall affect, infringe upon, or diminish
in any manner any water rights and permits or the future needs
of the city of Cheyenne.
(Laws 1979, Ch. 126, § 1; Renumbered from 41-2-205 by Laws 2009,
Ch. 168, § 401.)