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2001 LEGISLATIVE REPORT
General Comments/Overview/Executive Summary
December 31, 2000
II. Agency Mission Statement
The 1975 Legislature passed W.S. 41-2-112(a) which provided the following definition for the
Wyoming Water Development Program:
"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."
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