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regional water planning
Our Position: support
Bill Number: HB2294
Sponsor: Representative O'Halleran
Legislative Session: 2006 Legislative Session
HB2294 has a strike everything amendment (entirely changes original bill) so that it requires the cities and towns that include water resources in their general plans to project water demand for the next 20 years. It requires that cities outside Active Management Areas plan for water use in coordination with other governing bodies in the same groundwater basin with regards to water supplies, conservation efforts, and drought management efforts. Better water planning is rural areas is sorely needed.
Status
03/03/06 - passed out of the House 53-2-5
03/31/06 Senator Flake never heard the bill in the Senate Natural Resources and Rural Affairs Committee, so it is dead.
Action Needed
No action is needed as the bill is dead. You might ask your legislators what they are doing about water issues., however.
More information
To view the strike everything amendment, go to http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/47leg/2R/proposed/H.2294TO2%2EDOC.htm
Contact
Sandy Bahr at (602) 253-8633 or sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
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