Bill Text: AZ HB2028 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Groundwater model; unpledged storage credits
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-16 - House NREW Committee action: Held, voting: (0-0-0-0-0-0) [HB2028 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2024-HB2028-Introduced.html
PREFILED DEC 06 2023
REFERENCE TITLE: groundwater model; unpledged storage credits |
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024
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HB 2028 |
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Introduced by Representative Griffin
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An Act
amending title 45, chapter 2, article 9, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 45-581; relating to groundwater management.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 45, chapter 2, article 9, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 45-581, to read:
45-581. Groundwater model; unpledged long-term storage credits
the director shall ensure that any HYDRAULIC modeling the DEPARTMENT uses to determine projected GROUNDWATER levels for the purposes of EVALUATING an application for a CERTIFICATE or DESIGNATION of assured water supply ASSUMES any long-term storage credits not pledged to a current water user or application will be AVAILABLE for use.