H.B.
51
WATER RIGHT FORFEITURE PROTECTION
house committee
Amendments
Amendment 1 January 22, 2008 7:40 pm
Representative Michael Noel
proposes the following amendments:
1. Page
3, Lines 64 through 65
:
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[(c) any other owner of]
(C)
{
[
}
a community
{
]
}
{
(C) a public
}
water
system[.]
{
, as defined in
65
Section
19-4-102
}
:
(I) that supplies water to at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly
serves at least 25 year-round residents; and
(II) whose voting members:
(A)(a) hold a share in the community water system;
(B)(b) receive water from the community water system in proportion to the member's share in the
community water system; and
(C)(c) pay the rate set by the community water system based on the water the member receives
;
or
2. Page
5, Lines 134 through 135
:
134
(f)
(i)
The reasonable future water requirement of the public is the amount of water
135
needed in the next
{
30
}
40
years by the persons within the public water supplier's projected service
3. Page
5, Lines 136 through 137
:
136
area based on projected population growth or other water use demand.
(ii) A community water system shall record the community water system's projected service
area with the county recorder of the county in which the service area is located.
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[(4)] (3) (a) The state engineer shall furnish [an] a nonuse application form requiring
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