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Committee hears cleanup, allocation changes to multiyear flex accounts in Senate Bill 58
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The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Senate Bill 58, which would simplify calculations and some administration for multiyear flex accounts (MIFAs) used by groundwater right holders, and heard testimony from the Revisor's Office, the Kansas Department of Agriculture and several agricultural stakeholders.
The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 58, which would amend provisions governing multiyear flex accounts (MIFAs) that allow groundwater-right holders to manage irrigation allocations over a five-year window.
Reviser Lawrence of the Revisor's Office told the committee the bill would amend 82A736 to reorganize, simplify and in some places substantively change how MIFA allocations are calculated. "Most of the substantive changes are related to the amendment that would modify allocation of water in a MIFA," Lawrence said, noting the bill consolidates multiple allocation options into a single calculation.
Lane Letourneau, Water Appropriation Program Manager, Kansas Department of Agriculture Division of Water Resources, said the department…
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