PROPOSED
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2015
(Reference to printed bill)
Page 1, between lines 1 and 2, insert:
"Section 1. Section 45-413, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
45-413. Hearings; meetings; public comment designation of subsequent active management areas and boundaries; notice; procedures
A. If the director proposes to designate a subsequent active management area pursuant to section 45-412, subsection A, the director shall hold a public hearing to consider:
1. Whether to issue an order declaring the area an active management area.
2. The boundaries and any sub-basins subbasins of the proposed active management area.
B. The director shall give reasonable notice of the hearing under the circumstances which shall include publication once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which the proposed active management area is located. Any notice shall contain the time and place of the hearing, the legal description and a map clearly identifying and describing all lands to be included in the proposed active management area and any sub-basins subbasins and any other information the director deems necessary.
C. The hearing shall be held at a location within the proposed active management area as soon as practicable but no not less than thirty days and no not more than sixty days after the first publication of the notice of hearing. At the hearing, the director shall present the factual data in his the director's possession in support of and in opposition to the proposed action. Any person may appear at the hearing, either in person or by representative, and submit oral or documentary evidence for or against the proposed action. In making his the determination, the director shall give full consideration to public comment and to recommendations made by local political subdivisions.
D. NOTWITHSTANDING any other law, any public COMMENT session, stakeholder process or public hearing the department INITIATES or hosts related to the ESTABLISHMENT of a SUBSEQUENT active MANAGEMENT area shall be held in the groundwater basin or subbasin subject to potential designation. At any public comment session, STAKEHOLDER PROCESS or public hearing the department INITIATES or hosts, THE director SHALL explain to all INTERESTED STAKEHOLDERs the potential impact of the DESIGNATION as a SUBSEQUENT active MANAGEMENT area."
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Page 3, between lines 30 and 31, insert:
"Sec. 4. Section 45-435, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
45-435. Hearing on designation of subsequent irrigation non-expansion areas and boundaries; notice; procedures
A. If the director finds that an area which that is not included within an active management area meets the criteria specified in section 45-432, or a petition is filed pursuant to section 45-433, the director shall hold a public hearing to consider:
1. Whether to issue an order declaring the area an irrigation non-expansion area.
2. The boundaries of the proposed irrigation non-expansion area.
B. The director shall give reasonable notice of the hearing under the circumstances which shall include by the publication once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which the proposed irrigation non-expansion area is located. Any notice shall contain the time and place of the hearing, the legal description and a map clearly identifying and describing all lands to be included in the proposed irrigation non-expansion area and any other information the director deems necessary.
C. The hearing shall be held at a location in the county in which the major portion of the proposed irrigation non-expansion area is located no not less than thirty days but no not more than sixty days after the first publication of the notice of the hearing. At the hearing, the director shall present the factual data in his the director's possession in support of or and in opposition to the proposed action. Any person may appear at the hearing, either in person or by representative, and submit oral or documentary evidence for or against the proposed action. In making his the determination, the director shall give full consideration to public comment and to recommendations made by local political subdivisions.
D. NOTWITHSTANDING any other law, any public COMMENT session, stakeholder process or public hearing the department INITIATES or hosts related to the ESTABLISHMENT of a SUBSEQUENT irrigation non-EXPANSION AREA SHALL be held in the groundwater basin or subbasin subject to potential designation. At any public comment session, STAKEHOLDER PROCESS or public hearing the department INITIATES or hosts, THE director SHALL explain to all INTERESTED STAKEHOLDERs the potential impact of the DESIGNATION as a SUBSEQUENT irrigation non-EXPANSION area."
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