WHEREAS regulations to re-interpret and redefine roads under RS-2477 have been proposed by the Secretary of the Interior; and WHEREAS the proposed regulations have generated a great deal of controversy …
PLNR-03-1-R.S. 2477, Rights-of-Way Over Public Lands
WHEREAS Congress, for the purpose of promoting the settlement of the western United States by establishment of highways, granted a right-of-way for the construction of highways over public lands, not …
PLNR-94-1-Public Lands and Watershed Collaboratives
WHEREAS groups of community and environmental leaders, State and Federal Agencies, and public and elected officials on the Western Slope have joined together to collectively and collaboratively study and discuss …
PLNR-16-2-Lynx Management Post-Reintroduction
WHEREAS the Canada lynx was listed as Threatened in the contiguous United States, including Colorado, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on March 24, 2000; and WHEREAS we have …
01-9-PL-3-Little Snake BLM – Vermillion Basin Plan Amendment
WHEREAS: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intends to post notice of intent in the Federal Register to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement to amend the Little Snake Resource Management …
PLNR-99-3-Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
WHEREAS In 1964, Congress created the Land and Water Conservation Fund to assure that all Americans have access to high quality recreation resources, to enhance the health and vitality of …
PLNR-06-1-Gunnison Sage Grouse Conservation
WHEREAS the Gunnison Sage Grouse’s current range extends across just two states (southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah) and a handful of counties with viable populations (Gunnison, San Miguel, Montrose, Mesa, …
PLNR-04-1-Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation
WHEREAS the Greater Sage Grouse’s current range extends across eleven states (California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). These states have various local/grass …
PLNR-11-1-Government Litigation Savings Act
WHEREAS the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) was passed in 1980 and was intended to provide fair access to legal remedies for individuals, small businesses and non-profit organizations to …
PLNR-02-1-Forest County Partnership Restoration Program
WHEREAS The County-Forest Partnerships Project is a proposal for an innovative County-National Forest project for the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in Arizona, the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests in …
PLNR-04-3-Floating Access Across Private Property
WHEREAS Colorado’s river floating community contributes over $100 million annually to Colorado’s economy, primarily in rural areas, and demand for access to Colorado’s floatable streams continues to grow at an …
PLNR-96-5-Fish, Sport Fish Stocking Policies
WHEREAS the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to minimize the stocking of non‑native fishes (save trout) as part of the program to recover endangered fish species; and WHEREAS the …
PLNR-97-8-EPA Air Quality Regulations
WHEREAS the Environmental Protection Agency occasionally receives requests from special interest groups to change air quality standards; and WHEREAS federal land management plans include analyses of air quality; NOW, THEREFORE, …
PLNR-00-8-Endangered Species, State Efforts in Recovering
WHEREAS The State of Colorado has had a very successful program focusing primarily on keeping threatened species from being Federally listed under the Endangered Species Act; and WHEREAS The State …
PLNR-96-3-Compensation For Game Damage
WHEREAS Western Colorado land owners lose substantial amounts of habitat each year to wildlife, and the State program for reimbursing that loss is inadequate, and WHEREAS all citizens benefit from …
PLNR-07-1-Climate Change
WHEREAS global climate is changing and human factors appear to be influencing climate change; and WHEREAS observed changes in the environment suggest that these changes have the potential to adversely …
X-04-2-Unfunded Mandates, Opposition To
WHEREAS local governments provide many necessary services to citizens of the Western Slope; and WHEREAS there is increased competition for limited resources available to local governments reducing the flexibility of …
X-97-1-State Meetings, Encouraging Western Slope Participation
WHEREAS numerous state advisory boards and committees exist in various state departments and divisions, with membership including many representatives of Western Colorado, and WHEREAS the meetings of such boards and …
X-02-1-Review Period for Proposed State Legislation
WHEREAS: Colorado legislators may introduce as many as five bills during each legislative session, not including legislation that makes appropriations or bills that are recommend by committees that meet between …
X-04-1-Frivolous Lawsuits, Opposition to
WHEREAS it is the right of every citizen to bring forth suit against another to seek redress for damages, and WHEREAS some citizens and corporations have abused this right by …
X-01-2-Congressional Districts – Keeping the Western Slope in One Congressional District
WHEREAS CLUB 20 has represented Western Colorado as an effective “Voice of the Western Slope” for over half a century; and WHEREAS the Third Congressional district, as presently configured, represents …
X-01-1-Citizen Initiatives and Legislative Referenda Processes
WHEREAS Club 20 endorses and supports the right of the citizens to petition their government, and WHEREAS the Colorado constitution is subject to amendment by two processes, one by action …
X-96-2-Boards and Commissions and Cabinet Members
WHEREAS positions on boards and commissions are currently filled by the Governor in accordance with standards for geographic and political diversity, and expertise that is appropriate to the individual board …
HC-03-8-Uninsured Underinsured Persons Reducing The Number Of
Whereas CLUB 20 recognizes that the growing number of uninsured persons due to the increasing cost of health insurance and decreasing options for quality health service is an urgent problem; …
HC-03-4-Managed Health Care
WHEREAS Club 20 recognizes that managed care is an important part of the health care system by reducing to consumers overall costs of maintaining the system and providing more competitive …
HC-03-2-Individual Responsibility In Health Care
WHEREAS all citizens must help solve Colorado’s health care issues; and WHEREAS consumers must assume greater responsibility for their health care and must have the opportunity to be educated about …
HC-09-1-Health Information Technology
WHEREAS broad use of health information technology will: Improve health care quality, Prevent medical errors, Reduce health care costs, Increase administrative efficiencies, Decrease paperwork, and Expand access to affordable care, …
HC-03-7-Health Care System Efficiency
WHEREAS CLUB 20 recognizes the importance of a competitive health care marketplace and the value of maximizing efficiency of the health care system for the benefit of consumers, NOW, THEREFORE, …
HC-05-3-Health Care Principles
All Coloradans must work together to help solve Colorado’s health care challenges. Consumers must assume greater responsibility for, and knowledge of, their health and health care choices. Colorado State Government …
HC-03-5-Government’s Role In Health Care
WHEREAS CLUB 20 recognizes that the current health care system is built upon state and federal entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and that such programs – while a …
HC-09-2-Government Run Public Health Insurance Plan
WHEREAS CLUB 20 supports health care reform efforts to expand access, improve quality and create a more efficient health care delivery system, and WHEREAS the current system has not adequately …
HC-11-1-End-of-Life Care
WHEREAS the people of the communities in Western Colorado believe that quality of life is important for persons of all ages; and WHEREAS education is an important component of decisions …
HC-13-1-Behavioral Health Units, Support of
WHEREAS Club 20 has seen the imminent need to support, nurture and heal vulnerable citizens suffering from behavioral health and substance abuse issues, and understanding the importance of decreasing record-level …
EN-11-1-Western Slope Mineral Energy Resources, Support of
WHEREAS the Western Slope is blessed with abundant mineral energy resources; and WHEREAS the responsible development and use of mineral energy resources, including coal, uranium, natural gas, and oil, is …
EN-08-1-Rules Concerning The Development of Colorado’s Oil & Gas Reserves
WHEREAS Colorado has large reserves of oil and natural gas and the development of these reserves is not only an important economic opportunity for our state, but also an important …
EN-03-2-Roan Plateau Management
WHEREAS the Roan Plateau has long been recognized for its mineral resources, with 56,000 acres set aside as the former Naval Oil Shale Reserve (NOSR), and the Roan Plateau Planning …
EN-03-1-Renewable Energy Resources In Western Colorado Development Of
WHEREAS cost competitive renewable energy technologies and applications are emerging in the marketplace, and WHEREAS the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that Colorado is in the top 12 for wind …
EN-13-01-Renewable Energy and Efficiency
WHEREAS Colorado has one of the highest renewable energy standards in the United States, which has helped renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar, become a measurable portion of …
EN-02-2-Reclamation Of Mined Lands “Good Samaritan” Legislation
WHEREAS thousands of abandoned or inactive mines exist in Colorado and elsewhere in the United States; and WHEREAS abandoned mines can be a source of mine drainage that contributes heavy …
EN-05-2-Oil Shale, Development and Implementation of a National Strategy
WHEREAS the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that as much as 1 trillion barrels of recoverable oil may exist within the oil shale deposits of the Green River Formation in …
EN-05-4-Oil & Gas Drilling on Split-Estate Properties
WHEREAS both the agriculture and energy industries are important economic drivers in Western Colorado, and WHEREAS it is important to balance the right of oil and gas owners to access …
EN-01-1-National Energy Policy, Support For
WHEREAS the energy policies of the past are still not working. Our nation continues its dependence on foreign energy and we need to develop a plan that ensures the nation …
EN-05-1-Mineral Leasing Royalties on Naval Oil Shale Reserve Lands, Increasing Local Governments’ Share
WHEREAS both federal and state mineral leasing distribution laws set forth a priority for distribution of these funds to local governments socially or economically impacted by development of the mineral …
EN-09-3-Hydraulic Fracturing, Supporting Exemption for in the Safe Water Drinking Act
WHEREAS the practice of hydraulic fracturing is an important technology for the efficient development of natural gas reserves in much of Western Colorado’s tight sands and Southern Colorado’s coalbed geology …
EN-14-02-Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
WHEREAS Hydraulic fracturing has been conducted over a million times in the United States, is proven and is not a new technology. Hydraulic fracturing has also been used to stimulate …
EN-10-2-Ethanol, Support for
WHEREAS the ethanol industry in the United States currently blends up to 10 percent (E10) ethanol in gasoline tanks, and WHEREAS ethanol is a clean-burning fuel that naturally adds oxygen …
EN-10-3-Colorado’s Coal Industry, Support for
WHEREAS coal is an abundant energy mineral resource in Western Colorado, and WHEREAS Colorado’s coal is in high demand nationally because it has a high Btu and low mercury and …
EN-14-01-CO-2 Standards for Existing Coal Fired Power Plants Under the Clean Air Act Section 111(d)
WHEREAS the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to use Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act to propose, by June 1, 2014, “guidelines” for state plans to set standards of …
EN-09-2-Carbon Legislation and Rulemaking, Opposition of
WHEREAS any “Carbon Tax” legislation or regulatory measures (including “Cap and Trade” or the “Clean Power Plan” promulgated pursuant to section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act or other …
ED-10-1-Collaborative, Cooperative, and Integrated Education System
WHEREAS our education system has historically been viewed in a compartmentalized fashion whereby Preschool, K-12 and Post-Secondary institutions operate independently of each other, and NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that …