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Committee advances bill to fund state-engineer groundwater study in control areas with SEO-suggested amendments
Summary
Senate File 50, authorizing a state-engineer groundwater study of control areas and assessing corrective controls, was advanced from committee after SEO-proposed amendments narrowed scope, added 'subject to available funding', and set a tentative two-year study timeline with a roughly $500,000 cost estimate.
Senate File 50, a bill directing the State Engineer to conduct groundwater/aquifer studies in areas subject to corrective controls, passed the Senate Agriculture Committee as amended and will go to the floor for further consideration.
Sponsor Senator Love told the committee the bill responds to long-standing requests to re-examine groundwater control areas and the corrective controls placed there. "We've now exceeded both of those recommendations," Love said, urging updated analysis to inform county planning and management.
Brandon Gebhardt, the State Engineer, presented a set of SEO amendments that narrow the bill's scope to areas where the State Engineer has…
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