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UTAH STATE SENATE

UTAH STATE CAPITOL COMPLEX * WEST OFFICE BUILDING, SUITE W115

P.O. BOX 145115 * SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84114-5115 * (801) 538-1035

        January 24, 2007

Mr. President:

    The Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee reports a favorable recommendation on S.B. 29, INSTREAM FLOW TO PROTECT TROUT HABITAT, by Senator P. Knudson, with the following amendments:

1.    Page 3, Lines 60 through 61 :    

         60          (b) [A] Except as provided by Section 73-3-30 ,

{   the state engineer may not authorize   } a

         61      change
{   [   } may not be made      {   ]   } if it impairs [any] a vested water right without just compensation.


2.    Page 12, Lines 348 through 349 :    

         348          (c) "Fixed time change" means a change in a water right's point of diversion, place of
         349      use, or purpose of use for a fixed period of time
{   greater   }        longer       than one year but      {   less   }        not longer       than ten years.


3.    Page 14, Lines 403 through 405 :    

         403          (g) (i) The water right
{   on   }        for       which the      {   applicant filed   }        state engineer has approved       a fixed time change application will

         404      automatically revert
{   back   } to      {   its original   }        the point of diversion

and       place and purpose of use        that existed before the approved fixed time change application       when the fixed time change


         405      application expires
  or is terminated       .


4.    Page 15, Lines 456 through 459 :    

         456          (b) Each person using water as an instream flow:
         457          (i) shall install and maintain a measuring device or stream gauging station in the
         458      section of the stream within which the instream flow is maintained; and
         459          (ii) is not required to install controlling works
  unless the state engineer's order approving the application requires the installation because controlling works are necessary to achieve the purpose of the application       .


        Respectfully,

        Darin G. Peterson
        Committee Chair

Voting: 7-0-0
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