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Amendment 74 would require state and local governments to compensate property owners when regulations — like a limit on drilling — reduce the fair market value of their property.

Colorado economist Phyllis Resnick told me it could cost the state billions of dollars and block even basic governmental regulations.

The effort is funded by the oil and gas industry. But it's main public backer is the Colorado Farm Bureau.

Chad Vorthmann, of the farm bureau, told me he supports 74 because "we don’t think government should be in the business of taking someone's property."