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Committee hears mixed reaction on bill to let reservoir permits shift to passive uses to protect storage rights
Summary
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 2141, which would allow certain reservoir permits to change to passive uses (such as fish and wildlife or livestock) to preserve reservoir permits when superior uses are abandoned or never developed.
Senate Bill 2141 would allow water permits tied to reservoirs to change purpose of use in order to preserve the reservoir’s permit and priority when the originally authorized, superior use (for example, irrigation or industrial withdrawals) is abandoned or not developed.
Andrew Nygren, water appropriation division director at the Department of Water Resources, told the committee the bill addresses a narrow set of permits: reservoirs that have authorized storage and withdrawals but where the higher‑priority use is no longer occurring or the works were never constructed. He said the proposal…
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