MINUTES Joint Interim Committee on Water Resources Development and Management Thursday, January 15, 1998 10:00 am Houston City Council Chamber ***** Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule 11.11, a public hearing of the Joint Interim Committee on Water Resources Development and Management was held on Thursday, January 15, 1998, at the Houston City Council Chamber, in Houston, Texas. ***** MEMBERS PRESENT: MEMBERS ABSENT: Chairman J.E. "Buster" Brown Senator Carlos Truan Chairman Ron Lewis Representative David Counts Senator Ken Armbrister Representative Gary Walker Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. Senator Jeff Wentworth Representative Robert Cook Representative Robert Puente ***** The Chair called the meeting to order at 10:05 pm and noted that Senator Lindsay from Houston was also in attendance. The following business was transacted. Senator Lucio moved that the Minutes from the previous hearing be adopted. There being no objection, it was so ordered. Opening remarks were made by: Chairman Brown, Chairman Lewis, Senator Lucio, Senator Armbrister, Senator Lindsay, Representative Puente, Representative Cook The following testified on the implementation of Senate Bill 1: Dan Pearson, Executive Director of TNRCC John M. Baker, Commissioner of TNRCC Tommy Knowles, Texas Water Development Board Larry McKinney, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Alan J. Rendl, Spirit of 1960 Coalition Jim Oliver, Tarrant County Regional Water District Frederick A. Perrenot, City of Houston Danny F. Vance, Trinity River Authority David Parkhill, Brown and Root, Inc. Anthony Willardson, Western States Water Council Leonard Olson, Texas Water Development Board Haskell L. Simon, Lower Colorado River Valley Federation and Matagorda County Water Council James Kowis, TNRCC Glenda Callaway, Galveston Bay Foundation Chairman Brown announced that the next hearing of the Committee would be in El Paso on February 26, 1998. There being no further business, the Chair recessed the Committee. _____________________________ _________________________________ Senator J.E. Brown, Co-Chair Representative Ron Lewis, Co-Chair _____________________________ Carol K. McGarah, Clerk