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Committee approves emergency-notice bill for significant groundwater withdrawals, shortens DNR response window to 72 hours
Summary
Senate Bill 28, amended to require a 72-hour Department of Natural Resources response to complaints that a significant groundwater withdrawal has impaired another user, passed the House Natural Resources Committee by roll call (12 yes, 0 no).
Senator Glick presented Senate Bill 28 to the House Committee on Natural Resources; the amended bill requires that when a significant groundwater user (defined in statute as an aggregate capacity of at least 100,000 gallons per day) is reported to have impaired a neighboring well or water supply, the Department of Natural Resources must act within 72 hours to investigate and determine mitigation steps. The amendment at committee reduced an earlier 5–7 business-day response window to 72 hours.
Supporters included Indiana Farm Bureau representatives (Caitlin Smith and James Ramsey), who described…
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