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HOUSE BILL NO. 404<br /> – Aquifer planning/mngmt, statewide

HOUSE BILL NO. 404

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H0404.........................................by RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
AQUIFER PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT - Repeals and adds to existing law relating
to water to delete provisions relating to certain water district expenses;
and to provide for the transfer of specified sums to designated accounts
for use in a statewide comprehensive aquifer planning and management
effort.

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  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 404

                          BY RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE

  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO WATER; REPEALING SECTION 42-620, IDAHO CODE, RELATING  TO  CERTAIN
  3        WATER DISTRICT EXPENSES; AND AMENDING CHAPTER 17, TITLE 42, IDAHO CODE, BY
  4        THE  ADDITION  OF  A  NEW  SECTION 42-1779, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE
  5        TRANSFER OF SPECIFIED SUMS TO DESIGNATED ACCOUNTS FOR USE IN  A  STATEWIDE
  6        COMPREHENSIVE AQUIFER PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT EFFORT.

  7    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

  8        SECTION  1.  That  Section  42-620, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  9    repealed.

 10        SECTION 2.  That Chapter 17, Title 42, Idaho Code, be,  and  the  same  is
 11    hereby  amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and des-
 12    ignated as Section 42-1779, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:

 13        42-1779.  STATEWIDE COMPREHENSIVE AQUIFER PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT  EFFORT.
 14    Pursuant  to the provisions of Idaho law and legislative funding approval, the
 15    Idaho water resource board and the Idaho department of water  resources  shall
 16    conduct  a statewide comprehensive aquifer planning and management effort over
 17    a ten (10) year period of time beginning in fiscal year 2009. The sum of eigh-
 18    teen million four hundred thousand dollars ($18,400,000) shall be  transferred
 19    from  the  general  fund to the continuously appropriated water resource board
 20    revolving development fund to be used for technical studies, facilitation ser-
 21    vices, hydrologic monitoring, measurement and comprehensive  plan  development
 22    associated  with  the  aquifer  planning  and management effort. An additional
 23    amount of one million six  hundred  thousand  dollars  ($1,600,000)  shall  be
 24    transferred from the general fund to the water administration fund for person-
 25    nel  costs,  operating expenses and capital outlay associated with the aquifer
 26    planning and management effort.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                         STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                              
                               RS 17644
                              
                              
The purpose of Section 1 of this legislation is to repeal Section 42-620, Idaho 
Code, that requires assessments to be made to all water users of water 
hydraulically connected to the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to be collected by the 
Department of Water Resources. The funding of the completion of the planning 
effort underway for the ESPA is provided in new Section 42-1779.

New Section 42-1779, provides for a statewide comprehensive aquifer planning and
management effort over a ten year period, beginning in fiscal year 2009, to 
include all aquifers of the state, to be funded by the state. $18,400,000 to be 
transferred to the continuously appropriated water resource board revolving 
development fund for planning and management efforts, and $1 ,600.000 to be 
transferred to the water resources administration fund for personnel costs, 
operating expenses and capital outlay associated with the aquifer planning and 
management effort.
   
   
                              FISCAL NOTE
                              
The general fund expenditure for fiscal year 2009 is $20,000,000
   
   
SPONSOR:    Interim Committee on Natural Resources
  
Sen. Gary Schroder               Rep. Dell Raybould
Sen. Charles Coiner              Rep. John "Bert" Stevenson
Sen. Clint Stennett              Rep. Mike Moyle
Sen. Jeff Siddoway               Rep. Scott Bedke
Rep. Donna Pence
   
Phone: 332:1000
 
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