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Bill Title: Transborder groundwater authority. Establishes the Indiana-Kentucky transborder groundwater authority (authority). Requires the authority to study ownership rights in the groundwater resources shared by Indiana and Kentucky and to explore the desirability of entering into an interstate compact with Kentucky concerning the use of the groundwater underlying southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. Authorizes a county that borders the Ohio River or that borders another county that borders the Ohio River to elect to participate in the authority. Provides for the authority to include elected officials from municipal and county government in the participating counties, county health officers of the participating counties,

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - Representative Hamm added as coauthor [HB1137 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2016-HB1137-Introduced.pdf

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