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	Amend CSSB 3 (House Committee Printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS appropriately:
	SECTION ____. Sections 11.085(b), (g), (j), (l), and (u), 
Water Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(b) The application must include:                                              
		(1) the contract price or cost per unit of the water to 
be transferred;
		(2) a statement of each general category of proposed use 
of the water to be transferred and a detailed description of the 
proposed uses and users under each category;
		(3) the cost of diverting, conveying, distributing, and 
supplying the water to, and treating the water for, the proposed 
users; and
		(4) the projected effect on user rates and fees for each 
class of customers of the applicant [ratepayers].
	(g) The applicant shall cause the notice of application for 
an interbasin transfer to be published once [a week for two 
consecutive weeks] in one or more newspapers having general 
circulation in each county located in whole or in part in the basin 
of origin [or the receiving basin. The published notice may not be 
smaller than 96.8 square centimeters or 15 square inches with the 
shortest dimension at least 7.6 centimeters or three inches]. The 
notice of application and public meetings shall be combined in the 
mailed and published notices.
	(j) In addition to other requirements of this code relating 
to the review of and action on an application for a new water right 
or amended permit, certified filing, or certificate of 
adjudication, the commission may [shall] :
		(1) request review and comment on an application for an 
interbasin transfer from each county judge of a county located in 
whole or in part in the basin of origin. A county judge should make 
comment only after seeking advice from the county commissioners 
court; and
		(2) give consideration to the comments of each county 
judge of a county located in whole or in part in the basin of origin 
prior to taking action on an application for an interbasin 
transfer.
	(1) The commission may grant, in whole or in part, an 
application for an interbasin transfer only to the extent that:
		(1) the detriments to the basin of origin during the 
proposed transfer period are less than the benefits to the 
receiving basin during the proposed transfer period; and
		(2) in accordance with Sections 11.1271 and 11.1272 and 
commission rules, the applicant for the interbasin transfer has 
prepared a drought contingency plan and has developed and 
implemented a water conservation plan [that will result in the 
highest practicable levels of water conservation and efficiency 
achievable within the jurisdiction of the applicant].
	(u) An appropriator of water for municipal purposes in the 
basin of origin may, at the appropriator's option, be a party in any 
hearings under this section if the appropriator is a person who may 
be affected by the proposed transfer.