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AZ HB2467
Bill
Status
6/23/2022
Primary Sponsor
Andres Cano
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AI Summary
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Expands groundwater reporting requirements to persons who withdraw from nonexempt wells outside active management areas and irrigation non-expansion areas, with exemptions for small-scale irrigation uses on ten or fewer contiguous acres not part of integrated farming operations.
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Extends water measuring device requirements to nonexempt wells in locations outside active management areas and irrigation non-expansion areas, subject to the same exemptions as apply to small withdrawals and small-scale irrigation uses.
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Adds new reporting subsection (L) requiring persons withdrawing groundwater from nonexempt wells outside active management areas to report well location, quantity withdrawn, fuel/electricity consumed, groundwater uses, and quantities used.
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Makes technical corrections throughout the groundwater code including grammatical changes (replacing "which" with "that," "upon" with "on," and "prior to" with "before") and updating regulatory cross-references.
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Updates section 45-2602 to reference December 14, 2007 as the establishment date for southside protection zones and corrects subsection citations for reporting and penalty provisions.
Legislative Description
Reporting; groundwater pumping; measuring
Reporting
Last Action
Introduced in House and read first time
6/23/2022