HB 2595 Summary

• Amends Arizona groundwater code procedures for designating subsequent irrigation non-expansion areas where insufficient groundwater exists for a 100-year reliable irrigation supply.

• 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 form issuance.

• Establishes eligibility criteria for petition signers: landowners (not lessees) who irrigated two or more acres within the five years before petition submission and are capable of future irrigation.

• Specifies that the director's final order designating an irrigation non-expansion area is not an appealable agency action, with judicial review limited to petitioners and those who submitted evidence at the public hearing.

• Restricts judicial review to issues raised in the petition or evidence submitted at the hearing, with review commencing on the thirty-first day after final publication of the director's findings and order.