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Committee advances bill setting deadline for new groundwater methodology orders
Summary
Senate Bill 1061 would require the Department to issue revised methodology orders by Dec. 1 of the year before implementation to give farmers certainty about water management rules; the committee sent the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after extended Q&A about steady-state vs. transient modeling and mitigation plans.
The House Resources and Conservation Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 1061 after lawmakers and witnesses described confusion in previous years when the Department of Water Resources shifted from a steady-state to a transient methodology close to the planting season.
Sponsor Representative Stephanie Mickelson told the committee the bill “sets up the rules for the game and it sets up a date time certain for the department to have a new methodology order ... which is December 1 of the year preceding when they would want to implement it the following spring season between March and May.”…
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