HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources
SUBCOMMITTEE: Groundwater Permit Exemptions

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM, Tuesday, April 28, 1998

PLACE: Dumas, Texas (see below)

CHAIR: Rep. Gary Walker

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The subcommittee will meet in a public hearing in the Dumas Noon Lion's
Club Building, 6th Street and Porter, Dumas, Texas, to discuss the
following interim charge:
Review the continued need for exemptions and exceptions to permitting
found in Section 36.117, Texas Water Code, and potential impacts on
groundwater supplies and groundwater conservation districts.

Invited testimony will be followed by public testimony.






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