86R7036 BRG-F
By: Larson H.B. No. 1904
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to withdrawals of water from the Edwards Aquifer to supply
a military installation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1.15(b), Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Sections 1.17, 1.21, and 1.33 of
this article, a person may not withdraw water from the aquifer or
begin construction of a well or other works designed for the
withdrawal of water from the aquifer without obtaining a permit
from the authority.
SECTION 2. Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
Regular Session, 1993, is amended by adding Section 1.21 to read as
follows:
Sec. 1.21. SUBSTITUTE WITHDRAWALS. In addition to
permitted withdrawals from the aquifer, a municipally owned utility
owned by the City of San Antonio, without a permit, may withdraw
groundwater from the aquifer if:
(1) the utility uses the groundwater to supply a
military installation with water for human consumption,
irrigation, operations, mission support, or infrastructure
maintenance; and
(2) the utility and the military installation enter
into a contract requiring the installation to reduce its
groundwater withdrawals from the aquifer by the same amount of
withdrawn water the installation receives from the utility.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.