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7 LONG TITLE
8 General Description:
9 This bill addresses the metering of pressurized secondary water.
10 Highlighted Provisions:
11 This bill:
12 ▸ repeals outdated language;
13 ▸ enacts exemptions; and
14 ▸ makes technical changes.
15 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
16 None
17 Other Special Clauses:
18 This bill provides a special effective date.
19 Utah Code Sections Affected:
20 AMENDS:
21 73-10-34, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2019, Chapter 449
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23 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
24 Section 1. Section 73-10-34 is amended to read:
25 73-10-34. Secondary water metering.
26 (1) As used in this section:
27 (a) (i) "Commercial user" means a secondary water user that is a place of business.
28 (ii) "Commercial user" does not include a multi-family residence, an agricultural user,
29 or a customer that falls within the industrial or institutional classification.
30 (b) (i) "Industrial user" means a secondary water user that manufactures or produces
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32 (ii) "Industrial user" includes a manufacturing plant, an oil and gas producer, and a
33 mining company.
34 (c) (i) "Institutional user" means a secondary water user that is dedicated to public
35 service, regardless of ownership.
36 (ii) "Institutional user" includes a school, church, hospital, park, golf course, and
37 government facility.
38 (d) (i) "Residential user" means a secondary water user in a residence.
39 (ii) "Residential user" includes a single-family or multi-family home, apartment,
40 duplex, twin home, condominium, or planned community.
41 (e) "Secondary water" means water that is:
42 (i) not culinary or water used on land assessed under Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 5,
43 Farmland Assessment Act; and
44 (ii) delivered to and used by an end consumer for the irrigation of landscaping or a
45 garden.
46 (f) "Secondary water supplier" means an entity that supplies pressurized secondary
47 water.
48 (2) A secondary water supplier that begins design work for new service on or after
49 April 1, 2020, to a commercial, industrial, institutional, or residential user shall meter the use
50 of pressurized secondary water by the users receiving that new service.
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69 the Division of Water Rights:
70 (a) for commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential users whose pressurized
71 secondary water use is metered, the number of acre feet of pressurized secondary water the
72 secondary water supplier supplied to the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential
73 users during the preceding 12-month period;
74 (b) the number of secondary water meters within the secondary water supplier's service
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76 (c) a description of the secondary water supplier's service boundary;
77 (d) the number of connections in each of the following categories through which the
78 secondary water supplier supplies pressurized secondary water:
79 (i) commercial;
80 (ii) industrial;
81 (iii) institutional; and
82 (iv) residential;
83 (e) the total volume of water that the secondary water supplier receives from its
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85 (f) the dates of service during the preceding 12-month period in which the secondary
86 water supplier supplied pressurized secondary water.
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88 $10,000,000 in low-interest loans available each year:
89 (i) from the Water Resources Conservation and Development Fund, created in Section
90 73-10-24; and
91 (ii) for financing the cost of secondary water metering.
92 (b) The Division of Water Resources and the Board of Water Resources shall make
93 rules in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act,
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95 except the rules may not include prepayment penalties.
96 (5) This section does not apply to a secondary water supplier to the extent that the
97 secondary water supplier supplies secondary water within a county of the third, fourth, fifth, or
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99 Section 2. Effective date.
100 If approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, this bill takes effect
101 upon approval by the governor, or the day following the constitutional time limit of Utah
102 Constitution, Article VII, Section 8, without the governor's signature, or in the case of a veto,
103 the date of veto override.