Bill Text: TX HB3038 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the explanatory reports issued by the district representatives in groundwater management areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Left pending in committee [HB3038 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3038-Introduced.html
  85R11343 SLB-D
 
  By: Workman H.B. No. 3038
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the explanatory reports issued by the district
  representatives in groundwater management areas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 36.108(d-3), Water Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (d-3)  After the earlier of the date on which all the
  districts have submitted their district summaries or the expiration
  of the public comment period under Subsection (d-2), the district
  representatives shall reconvene to review the reports, consider any
  district's suggested revisions to the proposed desired future
  conditions, and finally adopt the desired future conditions for the
  management area.  The desired future conditions must be adopted as a
  resolution by a two-thirds vote of all the district
  representatives.  The district representatives shall produce a
  desired future conditions explanatory report for the management
  area and submit to the development board and each district in the
  management area proof that notice was posted for the joint planning
  meeting, a copy of the resolution, and a copy of the explanatory
  report.  The report must:
               (1)  identify each desired future condition;
               (2)  provide the policy and technical justifications
  for each desired future condition;
               (3)  include documentation that the factors under
  Subsection (d) were considered by the districts and a discussion of
  how the adopted desired future conditions impact each factor;
               (4)  include an assessment of the brackish groundwater
  resources of the management area, categorized by salinity level;
               (5)  demonstrate that the adopted desired future
  condition achieves a balance between the highest practicable level
  of groundwater production and the conservation and preservation of
  groundwater;
               (6) [(4)]  list other desired future condition options
  considered, if any, and the reasons why those options were not
  adopted; and
               (7) [(5)]  discuss reasons why recommendations made by
  advisory committees and relevant public comments received by the
  districts were or were not incorporated into the desired future
  conditions.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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