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78R6104 QS-F

By:  Duncan                                                       S.B. No. 1550



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the use of site-specific information by a groundwater 
conservation district to develop its management plan.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 36.1071, Water Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (h) and adding Subsection (i) to read as 
follows:
	(h)  In developing its management plan, the district shall 
use the groundwater availability modeling information provided by 
the executive administrator in conjunction with any available 
site-specific information provided by the district [and acceptable 
to the executive administrator].
	(i)  If, on review of the management plan, the executive 
administrator determines that any of the site-specific information 
provided by the district under Subsection (h) is unreliable, the 
executive administrator shall notify the district.  The district 
shall consider any comments received from the executive 
administrator and may amend the management plan accordingly.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.