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2018 SESSION
SB 520 Nonagricultural irrigation wells; prohibited outside surficial aquifer.
Introduced by: T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Nonagricultural irrigation wells prohibited outside surficial aquifer. Prohibits any person from constructing a well in a ground water management area for nonagricultural irrigation purposes except in the surficial aquifer. The bill authorizes the State Water Control Board (the Board) to adopt regulations to develop a general permit for the regulation of irrigation withdrawals from the surficial aquifer greater than 300,000 gallons in any one month. The bill directs the Board to promulgate regulations establishing criteria for determining whether the quantity or quality of the ground water in a surficial aquifer is adequate to meet a proposed beneficial use.
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HISTORY
- 01/09/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101531D
- 01/09/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/25/18 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N)
- 01/29/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/18 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/31/18 Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N)