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Committee backs bill broadening how groundwater districts use export fees for mitigation and monitoring
Summary
House Bill 16 89 would clarify groundwater districts' authority to use export fee revenues to support well operability, alternative supplies, and aquifer monitoring, including outside district boundaries; committee reported the bill favorably 8-0 to the full Senate and recommended it for the local, noncontested calendar.
House Bill 16 89 would expand Groundwater Conservation Districtsauthority to use export fees to address real-world impacts from groundwater development. Sponsor testimony said the bill would permit districts to support well operability, alternative water supplies, aquifer monitoring and to enter interlocal agreements to serve users impacted by export pumping, even when impacts cross district…
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