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Subcommittee votes to extend state water study after DES says no consensus; quarterly reports promised
Summary
The Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs subcommittee voted to extend the Surface Water Study Committee’s deadline after Department of Environmental Services staff told lawmakers the governor-appointed WaterSC had not reached consensus and had no final report due Jan. 31. The extension passed 3-1.
The Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs subcommittee approved a one-year extension for the Surface Water Study Committee’s reporting deadline after Department of Environmental Services staff said the governor-appointed group had not reached consensus on recommendations.
Representative Hixson told the panel the study group’s timeline needed to move to March 2026: “So we're gonna need to extend it to March 2026 is when we come back, and they would present this our house and senate committee, their plan.”
Rob Devlin, assistant bureau chief in the Bureau of Water at the Department of Environmental Services, told the subcommittee that WaterSC — the large…
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