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AZ HB2467

Bill

Status

Introduced

6/23/2022

Primary Sponsor

Andres Cano

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2022)

AI Summary

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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persons withdrawing groundwater from nonexempt wells outside active management areas to report well location, quantity withdrawn, fuel/electricity consumed, groundwater uses, and quantities used.

  • 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.

  • 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

Full Bill Text

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