| TO: | Honorable Kip Averitt, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB714 by Fraser (Relating to reports regarding certain water wells required by a groundwater conservation district. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend the Water Code to make permissive whether a groundwater conservation district requires that records be kept and reports made of the drilling, equipping, and completing of water wells and of the production and use of groundwater.
A district would be authorized to adopt rules that would require an owner or operator of a registered or permitted water well to report groundwater withdrawals using reasonable and appropriate reporting methods and frequency.
The bill would take effect September 1, 2007.
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, DB
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