TO: | Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB344 by Duncan (Relating to the notice, hearing, rulemaking, and permitting procedures for groundwater conservation districts. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would establish procedures that a groundwater conservation district would be required to follow when posting notice of conducting a hearing for the purpose of rulemaking or for considering permit and permit amendment applications, when conducting the hearings, when considering requests for permits and permit amendments, and when making decisions related to requests for rehearings on permit and permit amendment applications. The bill would also prohibit a permit or permit amendment applicant, or a party to a contested hearing, from filing suit against the district if a request for rehearing was not filed on time.
The bill would take effect September 1, 2005 and would apply only to an application for a permit or a permit amendment application detemined to be administratively complete or a rulemaking hearing for which notice is given by a groundwater conservation district on or after that date.
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LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, DLBa
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