HB2406 Summary

• Amends Arizona water quality control statutes to clarify that the water quality fee fund monies shall be used for activities required to implement water quality chapter provisions, removing a previous list of enumerated purposes.

• Modifies fee-setting authority by removing language restricting the director to a one-time rulemaking after July 29, 2010 for aquifer protection permits, annual registration fees, and AZPDES program fees, allowing future fee adjustments by rule.

• Updates section 49-203 to specify that consultant review fees paid by applicants for aquifer protection permits and wastewater facilities shall be deposited in the water quality fee fund.

• Clarifies that water quality fee fund monies constitute a trust that cannot be appropriated by the legislature to fund general state operations or the general fund.