Bill Text: TX HB2863 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the storage and recovery of water in a portion of the Edwards Aquifer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB2863 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2863-Introduced.html
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By: Kuempel | H.B. No. 2863 |
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relating to the storage and recovery of water in a portion of the | ||
Edwards Aquifer. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1.44(e), Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) The authority may contract for injection or artificial | ||
recharge under this section only if provision is made for | ||
protecting and maintaining the quality of groundwater in the | ||
receiving part of the aquifer, and: | ||
(1) the water used for artificial recharge is | ||
groundwater withdrawn from the aquifer; | ||
(2) the water is recharged through a natural recharge | ||
feature; or | ||
(3) the water is injected by the Alliance Regional | ||
Water Authority, the Canyon Regional Water Authority, or a | ||
municipally owned utility owned by the City of Buda, the City of | ||
Kyle, the City of New Braunfels, or the City of San Marcos and: | ||
(A) the water has a total dissolved solids | ||
concentration of less than 1,500 milligrams per liter and is not | ||
domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater, or reclaimed water as | ||
those terms are defined by 30 T.A.C. Chapter 210, effective October | ||
31, 2018; | ||
(B) the injection well terminates in a portion of | ||
the aquifer that contains groundwater with a total dissolved solids | ||
concentration of more than 5,000 milligrams per liter; and | ||
(C) if the water injected is state water, the | ||
political subdivision or utility has a water right or contract for | ||
use of the water that does not prohibit use of the water in an | ||
aquifer storage and recovery project. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |