WITNESS LIST
Natural Resources Committee
April 2, 2019 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
For:
Birdwell, Wes (Self; Texas Floodplain Management Association)
Swearengin, Scott (City of Austin)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
Hall, Ash (Self)
Horton, Susan (Texas Municipal League)
Howard, Robert (Self)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Reed, Cyrus (Sierra club lone star chapter)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Villareal, Gabriela (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
For:
Rubinstein, Carlos (Self)
On:
Hess, Myron (National Wildlife Federation)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brown, Jay (Concho Resources)
Dunn, Sandy (Self)
Frazier, Kyle (Texas desalination association)
Garcia, Buddy (Brownsville Public Utility Board)
Horton, Susan (Texas Municipal League)
Howe, Billy (Texas Farm Bureau)
Hutchens, Mia (Texas Association of Business)
Martinsson, Leah (Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts)
Oney, Tom (Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA))
Oswald, Bill (Self; Koch Companies)
Schumann, Peyton (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)
Sledge, Brian (Prairielands GCD)
Tredway, CJ (Texas Oil & Gas Association)
Vickery, Mark (Texas Association of Manufacturers)
Wisdom, Christina (Occidental Petroleum)
Womack, Daniel (Dow)
Against:
Reed, Cyrus (Sierra club lone star chapter)
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On:
Flatten, Charles (Self; Hill Country Alliance)
Wilson, Kim (TCEQ)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Warndof, Donna (Harris County Commissioners Court)
On:
Jaime, Ivan (Union Pacific Railroad)
For:
Burton, Donovan (San Antonio Water System)
On:
Friberg, Marc (Edwards Aquifer Authority)
Taylor, Mark (Guadalupe Basin Coalition)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Dunn, Sandy (Self)
Keffer, Jim (San Antonio Chamber of Commerce)
Parker, Blaire (San Antonio Water System)
Wright, Christine (City of San Antonio)
On:
Middleton, Gary (City of Victoria)
Ruiz, Roland (Edwards Aquifer Authority)
For:
Aaron, Dirk (Self; Clearwater UWCD)
Ellis, Gregory (Groundwater Conservation District clients of the firm.)
Hodges, Kenneth (Texas Corn Producers Association)
Howe, Billy (Texas Farm Bureau)
Rogers, Linda Kaye (Self)
Sledge, Brian (Prairielands GCD; North Texas GCD; Upper Trinity GCD)
Sledge, Brian (Prairielands GCD; Upper Trinity GCD)
Wells, Hope (San Antonio Water System)
On:
Martinsson, Leah (Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Frazier, Kyle (Texas association if groundwater owners and producers)
Harward, Heather (Brazos Valley GCD)
Horton, Susan (Texas Municipal League)
Johnson, Russell (Self)
McGuire, Mike (Self; Rolling Plains Groundwater Conservation District)
Schumann, Peyton (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (Texas Nursery & Landscape Association)
Vaughan, Dee (Self; Texas Corn Producers Association)
Whitehead, Victoria (High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1)
Against:
Reed, Cyrus (Sierra club lone star chapter)
On:
Flatten, Charles (Self; Hill Country Alliance)
For:
Nettleton, Beau (Self; Val Verde county)
Shepperd, John (Self; Devils River Conservancy)
On:
Dupnik, John (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baker, David (Self; Wimberley valley watershed association)
Flatten, Charles (Self; Hill Country Alliance)
Foster, David (Clean Water Action)
Honeycutt, David (Self)
Howard, Robert (Self)
Huffman, Laura (The Nature Conservancy)
Johnson, Russell (Hudspeth River Ranch Lamb and Goat LLC)
Lewey, Julie (Self; Devils River Conservancy)
Puig-Williams, Vanessa (Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Assn)
For:
Greene, Linda (Self)
Locke, Melissa (Texas Real Estate Advocacy & Defense Coalition (TREAD))
Neffendorf, Dennis (Self; Gillespie county commissioner gillespie county)
Rogers, Linda Kaye (Self)
Ruiz, Roland (Edwards Aquifer Authority)
Against:
Romero, Celina (Texas pipeline association)
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On:
Smith, Kendall (Railroad Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Anderson, Michelle (Self)
Anderson, Nicholas (Self)
Baker, David (Self; Wimberley valley watershed association)
Baker, James (Self)
Bratton, Pamela (Self)
Buse, Kara (Self)
Corbin, Robert (Self)
Darby, Kelly (Self)
Divine, Deda (Self)
Dunn, Sandy (Self)
Flatten, Charles (Self; Hill Country Alliance)
Flocke, Ellen (Self)
Foster, David (Clean Water Action)
Guy, Linda (Self)
Hall, Ash (Self)
Hanus, Nan (Self)
Hernandez, Nancy (Self)
Hess, Myron (National Wildlife Federation)
Howard, Robert (Self)
Huffman, Laura (The Nature Conservancy)
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
King, Bill (Self)
Lee Sang, John (Self)
McGeary, Judith (Self; Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance)
Mullins, Chris (Save Our Springs Alliance)
Pandit-Haji, Anaami (Travis county commissioners court)
Paul, Sharmila (Self)
Prescott Capps, Pamela (Self)
Puig-Williams, Vanessa (Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Assn)
Reed, Cyrus (Sierra club lone star chapter)
Reid, Robert (Self)
Russell, Claudia (City of San Marcos)
Shepperd, John (Self; Texas Foundation for Conservation and Texas Coalition for
Conservation)
Smith, Jennifer (Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District)
Tenorio, Daphne (Self)
Tobias, Teresa (Self)
Turner, Robert (Self; West texas ground water management alliance)
Vunderink, Gregg (Self)
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Against:
McBeth, Kelly (Howard Energy Partners)
Paylor, Ryan (Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association)
Tredway, CJ (Texas Oil & Gas Association)
On:
Betz, Cary (TCEQ)
For:
Hess, Myron (National Wildlife Federation)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Foster, David (Clean Water Action)
Huffman, Laura (The Nature Conservancy)
Metzger, Luke (Self; Environment Texas)
Reed, Cyrus (Sierra club lone star chapter)
On:
McGeary, Judith (Self; Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance)
Walker, Jeff (Texas water development board)
For:
Roberts, Matt (Texas Dental Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brahmaroutu, Ankita (Self; Texas Medical Association)
Holzheauser, Craig (Texas Association of City and County Health Officials)
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Mintz, David (Texas Academy of General Dentistry)
Travis, Clayton (Texas Pediatric Society)
Warndof, Donna (Harris County Public Health Dept)
Yanas, Christine (Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas , Inc.)
Against:
Dunn, Sandy (Self)
For:
Poppe, Russell (Harris County Flood Control District)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Villareal, Gabriela (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
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For:
Warndof, Donna (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baker, David (Self; Wimberley valley watershed association)
Flatten, Charles (Self; Hill Country Alliance)
Foster, David (Clean Water Action)
Howard, Robert (Self)
Huffman, Laura (The Nature Conservancy)
Puig-Williams, Vanessa (Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Assn)
Reed, Cyrus (Sierra club lone star chapter)
Shepperd, John (Self; Texas Foundation for Conservation and Texas Coalition for
Conservation)
Against:
Honeycutt, David (Self)
Lewey, Julie (Self; Devils River Conservancy)
On:
Betz, Cary (TCEQ)
Dupnik, John (Texas Water Development Board)
Johnson, Russell (Hudspeth River Ranch Lamb and Goat LLC)
For:
Poppe, Russell (Harris County Flood Control District)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Short, Jim (Self; Harris county, texas)
Villareal, Gabriela (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
Warndof, Donna (Harris County Commissioners Court)
For:
Stone, John (Red River Valley Assoc., and Arkansas Red River Commission)
For:
Martin, Ross (Rolling V Ranch WCID No. 1)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Barrett, Andy (Bud Vinson, property owner)
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