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AB 1466 would let courts consider exemptions and protect small pumpers in groundwater adjudications
Summary
AB 1466 would allow courts to hold early preliminary hearings to determine whether small groundwater users should be exempt from or handled separately in comprehensive groundwater adjudications and would require GSAs to give courts technical reports quantifying basin water users.
Assemblymember Hart presented AB 1466 as a measure to streamline groundwater adjudications and protect small and disadvantaged water users from costly multi‑year litigation. The bill would allow a court early in an adjudication to determine whether small pumpers should be exempted or resolved in a separate process and would require a groundwater sustainability agency (GSA) to provide a…
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