87R6879 BRG-F
 
  By: Larson H.B. No. 1801
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to withdrawals of water from the Edwards Aquifer to supply
  a military installation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 1.33, Chapter 626, Acts of
  the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 1.33.  WELL METERING AND PERMITTING EXEMPTIONS 
  [EXEMPTION].
         SECTION 2.  Section 1.33, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended by adding
  Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows:
         (e)  In addition to permitted withdrawals from the aquifer, a
  municipally owned utility owned by the City of San Antonio, without
  a permit, may withdraw groundwater from the aquifer if:
               (1)  the utility uses the groundwater to supply a
  military installation with water for human consumption,
  irrigation, operations, mission support, or infrastructure
  maintenance; and
               (2)  the utility and the military installation enter
  into a contract requiring the installation to reduce its
  groundwater withdrawals from the aquifer by the same amount of
  withdrawn water the installation receives from the utility.
         (f)  Subsection (e) of this section does not alter the
  obligations of a military installation under a biological opinion
  issued by a federal agency.
         (g)  The amount of water provided by a municipally owned
  utility to a military installation under Subsection (e) of this
  section may not exceed the maximum amount of water that the military
  installation is authorized to withdraw from the aquifer under a
  biological opinion issued by a federal agency.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.