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WY Stat § 41-2-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-109 - Water Resources Plans; Contents.

41-2-109. Water resources plans; contents.| (a) The water resources plans shall, to the extent deemed practical:  (i) Identify, describe and inventory the occurrence, amounts, availability and quality of water resources, current uses of water, activities that affect the quality of water, and activities that are dependent on, affected by, or relate to water and uses of water;  (ii) Identify and describe prospective needs and demands for water and opportunities for water development, control, withdrawal, storage, conservation, supply, distribution, drainage and disposal;  (iii) Identify and specify for each plan appropriate state, regional and local goals and objectives for management of water resources, including the obtaining of economic efficiency and a desirable distribution of income, the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the people, the protection and encouragement of particular industries and activities, the protection and enhancement of the environment and recreation; and  (iv) Evaluate and compare prospective and anticipated uses and projects, including combinations and coordinations thereof, uses of alternative sources of water and alternative uses of water, in terms of goals identified pursuant to paragraph (iii) of this subsection.
WY Stat § 41-2-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-110 - Water Resources Plans; Duties of Commission.

41-2-110. Water resources plans; duties of commission.| (a) The commission shall:  (i) Publish the water resources plans as they are formulated and adopted and disseminate them to people, industries and government departments and agencies;  (ii) Give advice and assistance if requested to government departments and agencies, furnish to them the appropriate plans, and make available related subsidiary and additional data and information, or data and information related to plans in the process of preparation;  (iii) Recommend action or legislation needed to implement and carry out the plans.  (iv) Repealed by laws 1979, ch. 59, § 5.
WY Stat § 41-2-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-111 - Suits for Enforcement of Water Rights; Appeals From Decisions of State Engineer and State Board of Control.

41-2-111. Suits for enforcement of water rights; appeals from decisions of state engineer and state board of control.| (a) Upon the request of the state engineer, the attorney general shall bring suit in the name of the state of Wyoming, in the proper district court, to enjoin the unlawful appropriation, diversion or use of the waters of the state, or the waste or loss thereof. A showing of injury in such suits shall not be required as a condition to the issuance of any temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction. If an appeal is taken from the judgment or decree entered by the district court in such suit, it shall be the duty of the supreme court, at the request of one (1) of the parties, to advance the appeal to the head of its docket and give it precedence over all other civil causes in the hearing and determination thereof.  (b) Upon any appeal being taken from the board of control or state engineer to a district court, it shall be the duty of the court, at the request of one (1) of the parties, to advance the appeal to the head of its trial docket and to give the appeal precedence over all civil causes in the hearing and determination thereof. If an appeal is then taken from the judgment or decree of the district court to the supreme court of the state, it shall be the duty of the supreme court, at the request of one (1) of the parties to the appeal, to advance the appeal to the head of its docket and give it precedence over all civil causes in the hearing and determination thereof.
WY Stat § 41-2-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-112 - Wyoming Water Development Program.

41-2-112. Wyoming water development program.| (a) The Wyoming water development program is established to foster, promote and encourage the optimal development of the state's human, industrial, mineral, agricultural, water and recreational resources. The program shall provide, through the commission, procedures and policies for the planning, selection, financing, construction, acquisition and operation of projects and facilities for the conservation, storage, distribution and use of water, necessary in the public interest to develop and preserve Wyoming's water and related land resources. The program shall encourage development of water facilities for irrigation, for reduction of flood damage, for abatement of pollution, for preservation and development of fish and wildlife resources and for protection and improvement of public lands and shall help make available the waters of this state for all beneficial uses, including but not limited to municipal, domestic, agricultural, industrial, instream flows, hydroelectric power and recreational purposes, conservation of land resources and protection of the health, safety and general welfare of the people of the state of Wyoming.  (b) In developing financing recommendations under the Wyoming water development program, the commission shall:  (i) Emphasize multi-purpose water projects for maximum benefits and cost allocation;  (ii) Identify project costs and benefits;  (iii) Recommend an allocation of project costs, including expenditures of state funds for Level I reconnaissance studies and Level II feasibility studies, to be reimbursed by project beneficiaries and to be borne by the state;  (iv) Recommend terms and conditions of financing project costs, maintenance and operation, based on the benefits to be derived by project beneficiaries and their respective ability to pay;  (v) Consider all funds, assets and revenue sources of all project beneficiaries and recommend financing plans which will reimburse expenditures of state funds, except as such expenditures may be allocated to a state benefit, including enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat or recreation;  (vi) Consider state construction and ownership of any project which requires the state to finance unreimbursed costs in excess of ten percent (10%) of the total project cost, and submit recommendations on project costs and potential revenues from sale of water or power from the project;  (vii) Consider any other factors necessary to develop comprehensive financing recommendations.
WY Stat § 41-2-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-113 - Definitions.

41-2-113. Definitions.| (a) As used in W.S. 41-1-106 through 41-1-108 and 41-2-107 through 41-2-118:  (i) "Project" means any dam, reservoir, canal, ditch, well or well field, hydroelectric power plant, regulatory work and all works and facilities necessary for the supply and utilization of water for beneficial uses, including the improvement of any feature, facility, function or portion of a project;  (ii) "Construct" means to construct, to acquire by legal means, to contribute or loan funds for the construction of and to finance the construction or acquisition of a project;  (iii) "Commission" means the Wyoming water development commission created by W.S. 41-2-117.
WY Stat § 41-2-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-115 - Report; Authorization; Assignment.

41-2-115. Report; authorization; assignment.| (a) In preparation of the final concept design under W.S. 41-2-114(a)(ii), the commission shall after giving public notice hold a public hearing within the affected water division. Any interested person, association or state or federal agency may appear and participate as a party. Following the hearing, the commission shall make public a report of their findings relative to whether the project is in the public interest, stipulating if the proposed project functions and services can be served by any person, association or corporation engaged in private enterprise, or if private enterprise has refused to provide the functions and services identified as being required by the proposed project. The commission shall then proceed as set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with the duties of the state engineer or the state board of control.  (b) The commission shall within ninety (90) days following the public hearings transmit its findings and recommendations to the governor and legislature pursuant to W.S. 41-2-114(a). Within thirty (30) days following receipt of the findings and recommendations of the commission, the governor shall submit separate recommendations concerning the projects to the legislature. If the recommendations of the governor differ from those of the commission, the governor shall state the reasons for nonconcurrence with the recommendations of the commission.  (c) If the commission finds that a project is desirable and in the public interest, and that some other governmental agency, public district or private corporation or association is desirous and capable of constructing, operating and maintaining the project and accomplishing the public interest to be served thereby, the commission, with the approval of the governor and the legislature, shall transfer or assign the project and any property or rights connected therewith to the agency, district, corporation or association upon agreed terms for reimbursement of the expense of predevelopment costs, payment for property and assurances of construction, operation and maintenance.
WY Stat § 41-2-116 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-116 - Water Rights.

41-2-116. Water rights.| (a) The director of the Wyoming water development office shall, at the direction of the governor, file applications in the name of the state of Wyoming for permits to appropriate water, to construct dams and other works, and to take the steps necessary to acquire, maintain or preserve the priority of any right essential to any project which is or may become a project of the Wyoming water development program, except that nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize or empower the director of the Wyoming water development office to acquire water rights through the power of eminent domain.  (b) All laws of the state relating to the appropriation and use of water shall apply to any projects of the Wyoming water development program.
WY Stat § 41-2-117 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-117 - Wyoming Water Development Commission; Membership; Removal; Terms.

41-2-117. Wyoming water development commission; membership; removal; terms.| (a) The Wyoming water development commission is created to consist of ten (10) members. The membership shall include:  (i) Nine (9) persons, two (2) shall be residents appointed from each water division of the state as defined in W.S. 41-3-501, at least one (1) will be a person having an adjudicated water right. One (1) resident of Wyoming shall be appointed at large and one (1) shall be an enrolled member of the Arapahoe or Shoshone Indian tribes who is resident on the Wind River Indian Reservation:  (A) They shall be appointed by the governor, after consultation with the superintendent of each water division and approval of the senate, and may be removed by the governor as provided in W.S. 9-1-202;  (B) Not more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the members shall be of the same political party;  (C) Appointments are for a term of four (4) years;  (D) Five (5) of the first appointees shall serve two (2) year terms and four (4) appointees shall serve four (4) year terms;  (E) No person shall be appointed for more than two (2) consecutive terms;  (F) If any member ceases to reside in or is absent from the division from which appointed for a continuous period of six (6) months or more, the governor shall declare his office vacant and shall appoint a successor from the same division for the unexpired term;  (G) The governor shall fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in a like manner to subparagraph (F) of this paragraph;  (H) The commission shall annually select one (1) of its members as chairman and one (1) of its members as secretary;  (J) To serve as consultants without vote the following are designated:  (I) The state engineer or his designee;  (II) The chief executive officer of the Wyoming business council or other person designated by the council; and  (III) A person with interest, training and expertise in water resource matters from the University of Wyoming or the Wyoming Water Resource Research Institute, appointed by the president of the university with the approval of the board of trustees.  (b) Members from the four (4) water divisions, the at-large member and the tribal member shall be voting members of the commission. Six (6) members constitute a quorum for the transaction of commission business.  (c) All grant and loan programs over which the commission has authority shall be administered by the Wyoming water development office.
WY Stat § 41-2-119 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-119 - Groundwater Studies.

41-2-119. Groundwater studies.| (a) The Wyoming water development commission may grant not to exceed eight million eight hundred thousand dollars ($8,800,000.00) to incorporated cities and towns, water and sewer districts and improvement and service districts in Wyoming for exploration for and feasibility studies of the use of underground water for municipal and rural domestic purposes, not to exceed four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000.00) for any one (1) exploration or study. The grants shall be made from revenues from water development account I and those revenues are hereby so appropriated. Any city or town, water and sewer district or service and improvement district receiving a grant pursuant to this section shall provide at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the cost of the exploration or study from its own funds. The commission shall adopt rules and regulations governing application procedures for the grants.  (b) The commission may expend from the funds appropriated under subsection (a) of this section for exploration and for feasibility studies of the use of underground water for municipal and rural domestic purposes subject to the following conditions:  (i) The exploration or study shall be conducted in conjunction with an incorporated city or town, water and sewer district or service and improvement district in Wyoming under an agreement;  (ii) Not more than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000.00) in state funds shall be expended for any one (1) exploration or study under this subsection;  (iii) The incorporated city or town, water and sewer district or service and improvement district shall provide at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the cost of the exploration or study from funds other than under this subsection;  (iv) The incorporated city or town, water and sewer district, or improvement and service district shall apply for participation in this program under procedures established by rules and regulations adopted by the commission.
WY Stat § 41-2-120 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-120 - Approval of Loans, Construction or Water Contracts and Agreements.

41-2-120. Approval of loans, construction or water contracts and agreements.| All loans, construction or water contracts and agreements to which the state is a party, entered into pursuant to this act or W.S. 41-2-114, shall be submitted to the select [water] committee for thirty (30) days for its review and recommendation and approved and executed by the governor and the head of the agency, commission or board.
WY Stat § 41-2-122 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-122 - Protection and Rights of Landowner.

41-2-122. Protection and rights of landowner.| (a) The Wyoming water development commission shall include in the planning process at Level I notification to a landowner whose lands may be flooded or otherwise physically affected, as determined by the administrator. The commission shall include in the planning process at Level II consultation with any landowner whose land may be flooded or otherwise physically affected by a proposed water project and shall include a report on the proposed mitigation of landowner impacts as jointly identified by the commission and the landowner.  (b) The Wyoming water development commission shall consult with and supply copies of reports and studies to any landowner whose land will be flooded or physically affected by any proposed water development project. The commission and any employees or other persons under the control of the commission shall mitigate any damages and disruption of the landowner's operations during the study phase including prevention of public nuisances and shall enter on private property only in the manner provided by W.S. 1-26-506 and shall also be subject to W.S. 1-26-507 and 1-26-508.  (c) In proceeding with Level III, construction and operation plans, the commission shall follow the requirements of the Wyoming Eminent Domain Act, shall negotiate in good faith with affected landowners and, in addition, shall attempt to mitigate damages which may occur from the impacts enumerated in subsection (a) of this section.
WY Stat § 41-2-123 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-123 - Project Studies Generally; Hearings; Reimbursement of Costs; Source of Funding; Use of Unobligated Funds; Recommendations to Legislature.

41-2-123. Project studies generally; hearings; reimbursement of costs; source of funding; use of unobligated funds; recommendations to legislature.| (a) The commission, after public notice, is authorized to conduct public workshops and public hearings in the affected regions on projects which have been approved for study by the legislature pursuant to W.S. 41-2-114.  (b) For each project authorized for Level I or Level II study by the legislature, the commission shall make a recommendation on the following alternatives:  (i) Proceed with next level of activity;  (ii) Continue study at the presently authorized level of activity; or  (iii) Terminate consideration of the project.  (c) Funds appropriated by the legislature for Level I reconnaissance studies and Level II feasibility studies may be included in the costs to be reimbursed by project beneficiaries as provided by W.S. 41-2-112(b)(ii), unless otherwise specifically provided by the legislature.  (d) For projects completed and in use prior to 1970, the funding for Level I and Level II activities shall come from those within water development account II unless otherwise specifically provided by the legislature.  (e) The water development commission may commence and contract for a Level II feasibility study of a project using unobligated funds authorized by law for a Level I reconnaissance study of the project if:  (i) The Level I study is substantially complete;  (ii) The due date for the Level I study report established by the legislature has not occurred;  (iii) The commission finds the Level II study to be in the best interest of the state;  (iv) The select water committee created under W.S. 28-11-101 reviews the commission request to proceed with the Level II study.  (f) All recommendations, including proposed legislation, from the water development commission to the legislature required by law regarding specific water projects shall be presented to the select water committee created by W.S. 28-11-101 not later than fifteen (15) days prior to commencement of the legislature to which the reports are due. The committee shall review and make recommendations to the legislature regarding commission recommendations and proposed legislation.
WY Stat § 41-2-125 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-2-125 - Office of Water Programs Created; Duties; Annual Report.

41-2-125. Office of water programs created; duties; annual report.| (a) There is created the office of water programs within the office of research at the University of Wyoming. The office of water programs shall:  (i) Work directly with the director of the Wyoming water development office to identify research needs of state and federal agencies regarding Wyoming's water resources, including funding under the National Institutes of Water Resources (NIWR);  (ii) Serve as a point of coordination for and to encourage research activities by the University of Wyoming to address the research needs identified in paragraph (i) of this subsection;  (iii) In conjunction with the Wyoming water development office, submit a report annually prior to each legislative session to the select water committee and the Wyoming water development commission on the activities of the office.
WY Stat § 41-2-1301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 2 - Planning and Development|Article 13 - Transfer of Water|Section 41-2-1301 - Transfer of Water Authorized; Conditions.

41-2-1301. Transfer of water authorized; conditions.| (a) Pursuant to W.S. 41-3-115, the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the Wyoming water development office are hereby authorized to transfer a maximum of thirty-three thousand four hundred ninety-three (33,493) acre feet of storage water per year from the environmental account in the Pathfinder Modification Project within Pathfinder reservoir to the Wyoming-Nebraska state line for the purpose of providing regulatory certainty under the Endangered Species Act for the use of Wyoming water in the Platte River basin.  (b) Pursuant to W.S. 41-3-115, and the Wyoming water development office is hereby authorized to transfer a maximum of nine thousand six hundred (9,600) acre feet of storage water per year from the Wyoming account in the Pathfinder Modification Project within Pathfinder reservoir to the Wyoming-Nebraska state line through annual temporary water use agreements with the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program in any year the storage water in the Wyoming account is not needed by the state of Wyoming as a municipal water supply or a replacement water supply to meet the state of Wyoming's obligations in the Nebraska v. Wyoming settlement agreement and the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program.  (c) The authorizations granted under subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall terminate if the state of Wyoming withdraws from the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or any successor programs approved by the governor.  (d) If the director of the Wyoming water development office determines that Wyoming water users are not receiving the regulatory certainty under the endangered species act as provided for in the Platte River recovery implementation program, he shall submit a report to the select water committee outlining the inadequacy of the regulatory certainty.  (e) If the state engineer determines that the transfers authorized under subsections (a) and (b) of this section cause injury to Wyoming water users beyond those identified in the final opinion and recommendations provided to the legislature pursuant to W.S. 41-3-115(q), then the state engineer shall report the injury to the select water committee.  (f) Any revenue generated through the annual temporary water use agreements for storage water from the Wyoming account shall be deposited in the account created by W.S. 41-2-1001(a)(iv).