WITNESS LIST
Natural Resources Committee
April 27, 2021 - 8:00 AM
For:
Henny, Kerrick (Port Houston)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Martinez, Mario A. (City of Brownsville)
Martinez, Mario A. (Port of Brownsville)
Richardson, Elise (Texas Ports Association)
For:
Broad, Tyson (Self; Llano River Watershed Alliance)
Russell, Ruth (Self)
On:
Lott, Earl (Tceq)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bezanson, David (The Nature Conservancy)
Golemon, Kinnan (Self; Friends of San Saba)
Howard, Robert (Self)
Kramer, Ken (Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter)
Against:
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Leftwich, Josh (Texas aggregate and concrete association)
For:
Ellis, Gregory (Groundwater Conservation District clients of the firm)
Embrey, Ty (Middle Trinity GCD, Clearwater UWCD, Middle Pecos GCD)
Martinsson, Leah (Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts)
McGeary, Judith (Self; Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance)
Oliver, Wade (Self)
Rubinstein, Carlos (Self; Belding Farms / Cockrell)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Gaines, Jimmy (Texas landowners Council)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor's Office, City of Houston)
Kramer, Ken (Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter)
Lewey, Julie (Self; Devils River Conservancy)
Puig-Williams, Vanessa (Self; Environmental Defense Fund)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Shepperd, John (Self; Texas Foundation for Conservation)
Sledge, Shauna (Upper Trinity GCD, Prairielands GCD, North Texas GCD, Barton Springs-
Edwards Aquifer Conservation District)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Wier, Andrew (Self; Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund)
Zito, Al (Self)
On:
Dupnik, John (TWDB)
For:
Rubinstein, Carlos (Self; Invest Texas Council)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bosse, Fred (Webber, LLC)
Harward, Heather (Texas Water Supply Partners)
Narvaez, Tammy (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Smith, Wayne (Webber, LLC)
Against:
Stewart, Scott (American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas)
On:
Pena, Jessica (Texas Water Development Board)
On:
Sledge, Brian (San Antonio River Authority; Wells Branch Municipal Utility District)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hale, J.D. (Texas Association of Builders)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kelly, Bill (Mayor's Office, City of Houston)
Kramer, Ken (Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter)
Wright, Christine (City of San Antonio)
Yanas, Christine (Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc.)
On:
Pena, Jessica (Texas Water Development Board)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Ellis, Gregory (Hays Trinity GCD - resource witness)
Fults, Holly (Self; Hays Trinity GCD)
Against:
Evans, Zachariah (Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation)
On:
Flatten, Charlie (Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Kramer, Ken (Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter)
MacDougal, Vanessa (Self)
Puig-Williams, Vanessa (Self; Environmental Defense Fund)
Rogers, Linda Kaye (Self; Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District)
Against:
Gaines, Jimmy (Texas landowners Council)
For:
Lewey, Julie (Self; Devils river conservancy)
Russell, Ruth (Self)
Against:
Griffith, Bret (Self)
Hodge, Byron (Self)
McBee, James (Self)
McCarthy, Ed (Byron Hodge & Family)
Newsom, Skip (Self; Devils River Association)
On:
Mace, Robert (The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bezanson, David (The Nature Conservancy)
Kramer, Ken (Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter)
McGeary, Judith (Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance)
Park, Joey (Texas Wildlife Association)
Puig-Williams, Vanessa (Self; Environmental Defense Fund)
Shepperd, John (Self; Texas Foundation for Conservation)
Simmons, Carrie (Devil's River Foundation)
Against:
Frazier, Kyle (Texas groundwater owners and producers)
Griffith, Lynne (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Hodge, Ann wright (Self)
Lewis, Bill (Self)
Lewis, Jeannie (Self)
On:
Dupnik, John (TWDB)
For:
Ellis, Gregory (Groundwater Conservation District clients of the firm)
Embrey, Ty (Middle Trinity GCD, Clearwater UWCD, Middle Pecos GCD)
Howe, Billy (Texas Farm Bureau)
Martinsson, Leah (Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts)
Rubinstein, Carlos (Self; Belding Farms / Cockrell)
On:
Kirkle, Sarah (Texas Water Conservation Association)
McGeary, Judith (Self; Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Howard, Robert (Self; Brush Country Groundwater Conservation District)
Schumann, Peyton (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (Texas Nursery & Landscape Association)
Sledge, Shauna (Prairielands GCD, Upper Trinity GCD)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Van de Putte, Leticia (San Antonio Chamber of Commerce)
Wells, Hope (San Antonio Water System (SAWS))
Zito, Al (Self)
Against:
MacDougal, Vanessa (Self)
Valdez, Jerry (Quadvest Utilities)
Vunderink, Gregg (Self)
On:
Dupnik, John (TWDB)
Nygren, Kimberly (Tceq)
Wier, Andrew (Self; Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Harward, Heather (Texas Water Supply Partners)
Kramer, Ken (Sierra Club - Lone Star Chapter)
MacDougal, Vanessa (Self)
Perry, Courtney (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Vunderink, Gregg (Self)
On:
Samuelson, Warren (Self)
For:
Bakko, Sally (City of Galveston)
Bechtel, Michel (Self; Harris County Mayors and Councils Assoc.)
Mitchell, Bob (Self; Bay area houston economic partnership)
Webb, Jed (Galveston county)
On:
Rivero, Hector (Texas Chemical Council)
Vail, Timothy (US Army Corps of Engineers)
Williams, Anthony (Texas General Land Office)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Assad, Ron (Gallant Builders)
Brannan, Ryan (Galveston Park Board of Trustees)
DeVries, Chris (Standard Steel Supply)
Golemon, Kinnan (Gulf Coast Authority)
Herring, Megan (Texas Association of Business)
Kelemen, George (Texas Retailers Association)
Landin, Taylor (Greater houston partnership)
Narvaez, Tammy (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Smith, Wayne (Self)
Spagnola, Gina (Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce)
Stewart, Scott (American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas)
Vickery, Mark (Texas Association of Manufacturers)
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