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House passes HB 25 to restore state engineer's role in reviewing water‑change applications
Summary
The House passed HB 25 to restore the state engineer's ability to consider 'beneficial use' when reviewing change applications after a 2011 Supreme Court decision (Janssen v. Jones) limited that authority; sponsors said the bill provides a quantitative impairment test, pre‑filing conferences for small users, and broad stakeholder support. The bill passed 69–0.
Representative Snow presented House Bill 25 to revise water‑law application procedures and re‑empower the state engineer to examine 'beneficial use' in change applications—a response to the 2011 Janssen v. Jones decision, which the sponsor said unnecessarily limited the engineer's discretion.
The bill’s sponsors described a multi‑year stakeholder…
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