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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Natural Resources 

TIME & DATE:  10:00 AM, Thursday, September 27, 2018 

PLACE:       Brownsville, TX 
CHAIR:       Rep. Lyle Larson 

 

Address: Brownsville City Commission Chambers, Brownsville City Hall - Old Federal Building, Second Floor, 1001 Elizabeth St, Brownsville, TX 78250

 

The committee will hear invited and public testimony on the following interim charges:

 

Interim Charge 9: Examine opportunities to enhance water development opportunities involving neighboring states and Mexico. Evaluate lessons from previous attempts to import new water supplies, as well as the impacts of noncompliance with the 1944 treaty with Mexico on the Rio Grande Valley Region.

 

Interim Charge 6: : Evaluate the results of the expedited decertification process created under S.B. 573 (82R). Include an evaluation of the process for resolving disputes around this process and assessing compensation for utilities whose service areas are decertified.

 

Specific issues related to Interim Charge 3: Evaluate the status of groundwater policy in Texas, including the following:

 

(b) Developments in case law regarding groundwater ownership and regulation, and (d) The appropriate consideration of the service area of a water supplier when groundwater resources are allocated based on surface ownership.

 

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