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                                  TITLE  42
                       IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER
                            RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION
                                  CHAPTER 17
                       DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES --
                             WATER RESOURCE BOARD
    42-1736B.  WATER RESOURCE POLICY ACTIONS. (1) All future filings, permits
and decrees on the unappropriated waters of this state shall be determined
with respect to the effect such filings, permits and decrees will have on the
minimum daily flow of the affected stream or river, or on the maintenance
level of the affected lake or reservoir.
    (2)  All water plans and development projects proposed by the water
resource board shall be subject to review and approval of the legislature,
except that those projects funded from the water resource board revolving
development account of less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) need
not have prior legislative approval.
    (3)  In further recognition of the authority granted by law to the water
resource board by the provisions of section 42-1734, Idaho Code, and in
further recognition of the right of the legislature to review and approve the
actions of the water resource board, the water resource board is specifically
directed:
    (a)  To inventory all of the unappropriated waters of this state;
    (b)  To recommend to the legislature appropriations in trust for the
    people of Idaho for specific purposes;
    (c)  To develop a list of specific proposals for storage of any
    unappropriated waters of this state, which proposals shall show location,
    costs, and proposed uses and benefits;
    (d)  To take all necessary actions to assure that Idaho citizens shall not
    be denied the right to divert and appropriate to beneficial uses, under
    the provisions of article XV of the constitution of the state of Idaho,
    the unappropriated waters of this state.