Bill Text: TX HB2867 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the contracts of the Edwards Aquifer recharge, storage, and recovery projects.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB2867 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2867-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 2867 | |
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| relating to the contracts of the Edwards Aquifer recharge, storage, | ||
| and recovery projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 1.44(a), (b), and (c), Chapter 626, | ||
| Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, are amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) The authority may contract with any investor-owned | ||
| utility or political subdivision of the state under Chapter 791, | ||
| Government Code, to provide for artificial recharge of the aquifer, | ||
| through injection wells or with surface water subject to the | ||
| control of the investor-owned utility or political subdivision, for | ||
| the subsequent retrieval of the water by the investor-owned utility | ||
| or political subdivision or its authorized assignees for beneficial | ||
| use within the authority. | ||
| (b) The authority may not unreasonably deny a request to | ||
| enter into a cooperative contract under this section if the | ||
| investor-owned utility or political subdivision agrees to: | ||
| (1) file with the authority records of the injection | ||
| or artificial recharge of the aquifer; and | ||
| (2) provide for protection of the quality of the | ||
| aquifer water and of the rights of aquifer users in designating the | ||
| location of injection wells or recharge dams, the methods of | ||
| injection or recharge, and the location and type of retrieval | ||
| wells. | ||
| (c) The investor-owned utility or political subdivision | ||
| causing artificial recharge of the aquifer is entitled to withdraw | ||
| during any 12-month period the measured amount of water actually | ||
| injected or artificially recharged during the preceding 12-month | ||
| period, as demonstrated and established by expert testimony, less | ||
| an amount determined by the authority to: | ||
| (1) account for that part of the artificially | ||
| recharged water discharged through springs; and | ||
| (2) compensate the authority in lieu of users' fees. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
