TO: | Honorable Kip Averitt, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB1238 by Ogden (Relating to a study regarding the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer.), As Introduced |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2010 | $0 |
2011 | ($500,000) |
2012 | $0 |
2013 | $0 |
2014 | $0 |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) from General Revenue Fund 1 |
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2010 | $0 |
2011 | ($500,000) |
2012 | $0 |
2013 | $0 |
2014 | $0 |
The required study will involve detailed evaluation of: 20 Carrizo-Wilcox GCDs and a similar number of adjacent GCDs plans, rules, implementation of desired future conditions, and enforcement efforts; three Carrizo-Wilcox groundwater management areas and six adjacent groundwater management area desired future condition determinations; data and projections from ten regional water plans; data and projections from the state water plan; and any other appropriate factors determined by the TCEQ. This estimate assumes that the TCEQ would contract for the study, and that the study would cost $500,000, that the costs would be paid out of the General Revenue Fund, and that a contract for the study would be executed in 2011.
This estimate assumes that any costs to the Water Development Board and the University of Texas assisting with the study could be absorbed using existing agency resources.
Source Agencies: | 580 Water Development Board, 582 Commission on Environmental Quality, 720 The University of Texas System Administration
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LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, ZS, TL
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