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AZ HB2895

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/12/2020

Primary Sponsor

Regina Cobb

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2020)

AI Summary

  • Amends procedures for designating "subsequent irrigation non-expansion areas" where groundwater is insufficient to reliably supply irrigation for 100 years, allowing consideration of future changes to withdrawal rates.

  • Requires petitions to include a numeric groundwater flow model and hydrologic report signed by a registered professional geologist or engineer, submitted within one year of receiving the petition form from the county recorder.

  • Establishes that irrigation users eligible to petition must be landowners (not lessees) who irrigated two or more acres within the five preceding years and are capable of future irrigation.

  • Limits irrigation to acres that were irrigated during the five years before the hearing notice is published, with the limitation continuing until the director makes a final determination.

  • Specifies that the director's final order is not appealable but is subject to judicial review starting on the thirty-first day after publication; only petitioners and those who submitted evidence at the hearing may seek judicial review, limited to issues they raised.

Legislative Description

Subsequent irrigation non-expansion areas; procedures.

Last Action

House APPROP Committee action: Discussed and Held, voting: (0-0-0-0-0-0)

2/24/2020

Full Bill Text

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