ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

House: NREW DPA/SE 5-3-0-2

☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note

HB 2737: groundwater permits; technical correction

S/E water supply development; reclamation projects

Sponsor: Representative Gillette, LD 30

Caucus & COW

 

Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment to HB2737

Overview

Adds to the definition of water supply development as it relates to the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA).

History

Laws 2022, Chapter 366 reestablished WIFA as a separate state agency. Both the WMA and WIFA were responsible for providing source of funding and other assistance for public water testament projects. In 2022, WIFA's authority was expanded to provide financial resources for projects relating to water supply development in order to improve current and long-term water supplies (Laws 2022, Chapter 366). WIFA may issue bonds, enter into short-term emergency loan agreements and administer federal grants. WIFA administers the Clean Water Revolving Fund; the Safe Drinking Water Revolving Fund; the Hardship Grant Fund; the Water Supply Development Revolving Fund; the Long-Term Water Augmentation Fund; and the Water Conservation Grant Fund (A.R.S. §§ 49 – 1203 and 49-1203.01).

Water supply development is the act of acquiring water or the rights to contracts for water to increase the water supply. A water-related facility may be built, developed, planned or designed for the following purposes:

1)   conveyance or delivery of water;

2)   storage or recovery of water;

3)   reclamation and reuse of water;

4)   replenishment of groundwater;

5)   active or Passive stormwater recharge; and

6)   conservation of water (A.R.S 49-1201).

Provisions

1.   Adds including by a reclamation project approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency that increase the availability of water to the definition of Water Supply Development as it relates to WIFA. (Sec.1)

2.   Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)

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