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30		-	ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO . 1585 By: Bullard, Burns, and
	28	+	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
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	30	+	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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	32	+	2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
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	34	+	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
	35	+	FOR ENGROSSED
	36	+	SENATE BILL NO. 1585 By: Bullard, Burns, and
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40		-	An Act relating to water and water rights; defining
41		-	term; creating a heritage river designation;
42		-	providing for the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to
43		-	provide certain designation; establishing protections
44		-	for heritage rivers against certain uses; prohibiting
45		-	water sale and transfer from a heritage river;
46		-	providing the Oklahoma Water Resour ces Board
47		-	authority over the provisions and protections of a
48		-	heritage river; maintaining certain existing
49		-	practices along heritage rivers; protecting certain
50		-	property rights for landow ners adjacent to a heritage
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	46	+	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
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	48	+	An Act relating to waters and water rights;
	49	+	prohibiting the Oklahoma Water Resources Board from
	50	+	approving or permitting the construction of dams on
	51	+	Glover River; providing for codification; and
	52	+	providing an effective date .
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56		-	AUTHORS: Add the following House Coauthor s: West (Josh),
57		-	Moore, Burns, Lawson, Sims, Johns, Bashore,
58		-	Wallace, Sterling, McDugle, Cornwell, Sneed, and
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62		-	AMENDMENT NO. 1. Strike the title, enacting clause and entire bill
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66		-	"An Act relating to waters and water rights; enacting
67		-	the Mitchell McDaniel Historic Act for the Glover
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69		-	Board from approving or permitting the construction
70		-	of dams on Glover River; providing for codification;
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101	56		BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
102		-	SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
103		-	codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
104		-	This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Mitchell
105		-	McDaniel Historic Act for the Glover River".
106		-	SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
	57	+	SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
107	58		in the Oklahoma Statut es as Section 110.13 of Title 82, unless there
108	59		is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
109	60		The Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall neither approve any
110	61		application nor permit the construction of a dam on Glover River in
111	62		McCurtain County.
112		-	SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022."
113		-	Passed the House of Representatives the 27th day of April, 2022.
	63	+	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
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157		-	BILL NO. 1585 By: Bullard, Burns, and
158		-	Stephens of the Senate
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168		-	An Act relating to water and water rights; defining
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170		-	providing for the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to
171		-	provide certain designation; establishing protections
172		-	for heritage rivers against certain uses; prohibiting
173		-	water sale and transfer from a heritage river;
174		-	providing the Oklahoma Water Resour ces Board
175		-	authority over the provisions and protections of a
176		-	heritage river; maintaining certain existing
177		-	practices along heritage rivers; protecting certain
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184		-	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
185		-	SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
186		-	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 897 of Title 82, unless there is
187		-	created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
188		-	A. As used in this section, “heritage river” means any river or
189		-	stream that has maintained a free-flowing and undammed status for
190		-	all of Oklahoma’s statehood.
191		-	B. A heritage river, having been free-flowing and undammed
192		-	since Oklahoma’s statehood, possesses natural elements such as
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220		-	and future benefit to the people of the state. For this purpose,
221		-	the Glover River in McCurtain County shall b e designated a heritage
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223		-	C. On or after the effe ctive date of this act, any river
224		-	designated as a heritage river pursuant to this act shall not be
225		-	impounded by any large dam or structure for industrial purposes and
226		-	no entity shall sell or transfer water from any heritage river.
227		-	D. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall have authority over
228		-	the provisions of this act and shall promulgate rules.
229		-	1. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall:
230		-	a. prepare, adopt, and publish management plans and other
231		-	documents to guide public and private activities and
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233		-	b. consider and comment on public and priva te practices
234		-	and proposed actions that may affect a heritage river,
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236		-	c. recommend standards for local govern ment agencies
237		-	whose political boundaries include al l or part of a
238		-	heritage river; and
239		-	2. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board may:
240		-	a. own and control public access points for a heritage
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272		-	affect a heritage river and take lawful action to
273		-	abate nuisances.
274		-	E. 1. Nothing in this act shall be construed to unduly
275		-	restrict or adversely affect the u se of property within any heritage
276		-	river basin for farming, ranching, forestry, silviculture , and other
277		-	agricultural uses if such uses are not inconsistent with the
278		-	purposes of this act. Present farming, ranching, forestry,
279		-	silviculture, and other agricultural uses and practices shall be
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281		-	2. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to affect
282		-	existing rights between a landown er and a utility or pipeline
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284		-	3. The property rights of private landowners adja cent to a
285		-	heritage river shall be the same as in any other area of the state.
286		-	The unauthorized use of private property shall be deemed trespassing
287		-	and subject to the penalties provided for such an offense.
288		-	4. Nothing in this act shall be construed to restrict public
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	65	+	COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON E NERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES,
	66	+	dated 04/14/2022 - DO PASS, As Amended.