Amend Floor Amendment No. 79 by Morrison to CSSB 3 (Prefiled
Amendment Packet page 202) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the
amendment and renumber subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 1.03(10), Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
(10) "Existing user" means a person who has withdrawn
and beneficially used underground water from the aquifer on of
before June 28, 1996 [1, 1993]
SECTION ____. Article 1, Section 1.18(b), Chapter 626, Acts
of 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as
follows:
(b) The authority may not consider or take action on an
application relating to a proposed or existing well of which there
is no evidence of actual beneficial use before June 28, 1996 [1,
1993], until a final determination has been made on all initial
regular permit applications submitted on or before the initial
application date of February 28, 1997 [March 1, 1994].
(2) In SECTION ____ of the Amendment, in amended Section
1.14(e), Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 1993 (page 2), strike the text beginning with "through
wells" through the period at the end of the subsection and
substitute "through wells drilled after June 28, 1996 [1, 1993,
except additional water as provided by Subsection (d) and then on an
interruptible basis]."
(3) In SECTION ____ of the Amendment, strike the recital to
the section (page 3), and substitute:
Section 1.16, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
Regular Session, 1993, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) and
amending Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(a-1) An existing user who drilled an aquifer well after June
1, 1993, and who filed an application for historical use of
groundwater from the aquifer during the historical period of June
1, 1993, through June 28, 1996, and has initiated an appeal or filed
litigation against the authority before March 1, 2007, is qualified
for an initial regular permit.