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57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

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HB 2934: Harquahala; groundwater transportation fee

Sponsor: Representative Biasiucci, LD 30

Committee on Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Overview

Requires a person transporting groundwater from the Harquahala irrigation non-expansion area (INA) to an initial active management area (AMA) to pay the groundwater transportation fee to a specified county.

History

Unless specifically authorized, groundwater that is withdrawn in a basin or sub-basin located outside an initial AMA may not be transported to an initial AMA. Current law identifies four groundwater basins and sub-basins from which groundwater can be withdrawn and transported to an initial AMA. Those basins are the: 1) McMullen Valley; 2) Butler Valley; 3) Harquahala INA; and 4) Big Chino sub-basin of the Verde River groundwater basin. Transportation of groundwater from these basins is subject to limitations as outlined in statute (A.R.S. § 45-551). 

The Harquahala INA was created in 1981 and exists in Maricopa and La Paz counties (Arizona Department of Water Resources).

Provisions

1.   Requires a person transporting, directly or indirectly, groundwater from any portion of the Harquahala INA to an initial AMA to pay the groundwater transportation fee to a county containing a portion of the Harquahala INA that does not contain any portion of an initial AMA. (Sec. 1)

2.   Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)

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