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2002 LEGISLATIVE REPORT
General Comments/Overview/Executive Summary
December 31, 2001
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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