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:
and
Darin G. Peterson
Voting: 7-0-0
1. Page
3, Lines 60 through 61
:
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(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
:
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(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
405
application expires
4. Page
15, Lines 456 through 459
:
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(b) Each person using water as an instream flow:
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(i) shall install and maintain a measuring device or stream gauging station in the
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section of the stream within which the instream flow is maintained; and
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(ii) is not required to install controlling works
Respectfully,
Committee Chair
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