HB 2202
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
HB 2202: subsequent AMA; previously nonirrigated land
Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19
Committee on Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Overview
Allows a person in a subsequent active management area (AMA) that possesses an irrigation
grandfathered right to irrigate land that was not previously irrigated, only if the land meets
certain requirements and the person does not exceed their volume of awarded groundwater
from the irrigation grandfathered right.
History
A person who owns land which was irrigated in whole or in part with groundwater at any
time during the five years preceding the date of the notice of the initiation of designation
procedures or the call for the election for subsequent active management areas, which is
capable of being irrigated and which has not been retired from irrigation has the right to use
groundwater for the irrigation of such land (A.R.S § 45-465).
Irrigate is defined as to apply water to two or more acres of land to produce plants or parts of
plants for sale or human consumption, or for use as feed for livestock, range livestock or
poultry, as such terms are defined in section 3-1201 (A.R.S. § 45-402).
Provisions
1. Adds that upon the Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources' (ADWR)
determination of irrigation grandfathered rights, a person in a subsequent AMA may
irrigate land that was not previously irrigated if certain conditions apply. (Sec. 1)
2. Requires the eligible land be adjacent to a farm unit or parcel that was previously subject
to irrigation. (Sec. 1)
3. Requires the irrigation of the eligible land not cause the person to exceed the volume of
groundwater awarded in that persons irrigation grandfathered right. (Sec. 1)
4. Contains a retroactive effective date to from and after August 29,2022. (Sec. 6)
5. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)