| 1 | 1 | | H.B. 562 |
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| 2 | 2 | | LEGISLATIVE GENERAL COUNSEL |
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| 3 | 3 | | 6 Approved for Filing: P. Owen 6 |
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| 4 | 4 | | 6 02-24-23 2:02 PM 6 |
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| 5 | 5 | | H.B. 562 |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1 WATER RIGHTS INVENTORY REQUI REMENTS |
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| 7 | 7 | | 2 2023 GENERAL SESSION |
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| 8 | 8 | | 3 STATE OF UTAH |
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| 9 | 9 | | 4 Chief Sponsor: Phil Lyman |
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| 10 | 10 | | 5 Senate Sponsor: ____________ |
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| 11 | 11 | | 6 |
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| 12 | 12 | | 7LONG TITLE |
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| 13 | 13 | | 8General Description: |
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| 14 | 14 | | 9 This bill addresses an entity submitting an inventory of water rights related information. |
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| 15 | 15 | | 10Highlighted Provisions: |
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| 16 | 16 | | 11 This bill: |
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| 17 | 17 | | 12 <defines terms; |
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| 18 | 18 | | 13 <requires the submission of a comprehensive inventory; |
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| 19 | 19 | | 14 <makes the comprehensive inventory a public record; |
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| 20 | 20 | | 15 <provides that the comprehensive inventory is not an official verification or approval |
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| 21 | 21 | | 16of the information in the comprehensive inventory; |
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| 22 | 22 | | 17 <authorizes rulemaking regarding the comprehensive inventory; and |
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| 23 | 23 | | 18 <directs the Division of Water Rights to publish a comprehensive inventory on a |
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| 24 | 24 | | 19public website. |
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| 25 | 25 | | 20Money Appropriated in this Bill: |
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| 26 | 26 | | 21 None |
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| 27 | 27 | | 22Other Special Clauses: |
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| 28 | 28 | | 23 None |
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| 29 | 29 | | 24Utah Code Sections Affected: |
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| 30 | 30 | | 25ENACTS: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 26 73-5-8.5, Utah Code Annotated 1953 |
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| 32 | 32 | | 27 |
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| 33 | 33 | | *HB0562* H.B. 562 02-24-23 2:02 PM |
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| 34 | 34 | | - 2 - |
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| 35 | 35 | | 28Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah: |
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| 36 | 36 | | 29 Section 1. Section 73-5-8.5 is enacted to read: |
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| 37 | 37 | | 30 73-5-8.5. Water rights inventory. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 31 (1) As used in this section: |
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| 39 | 39 | | 32 (a) "Comprehensive inventory" means the information required to be submitted under |
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| 40 | 40 | | 33Subsection (2). |
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| 41 | 41 | | 34 (b) "Division" means the Division of Water Rights. |
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| 42 | 42 | | 35 (2) A public water provider required to file an annual water use report with the |
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| 43 | 43 | | 36Division of Water Rights under Section 73-5-8 shall include with the annual water use data |
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| 44 | 44 | | 37report a comprehensive inventory that includes, at a minimum, a list of: |
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| 45 | 45 | | 38 (a) water rights that the public water provider claims to own and the amount in |
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| 46 | 46 | | 39acre-feet of water that the water rights represent, including: |
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| 47 | 47 | | 40 (i) a certificated water right; |
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| 48 | 48 | | 41 (ii) an approved water right; or |
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| 49 | 49 | | 42 (iii) a water right to supply water for municipal, industrial, commercial, livestock, |
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| 50 | 50 | | 43irrigation, or other uses; |
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| 51 | 51 | | 44 (b) water contracts that the person claims to have executed that are in effect at the time |
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| 52 | 52 | | 45of filing and the amount in acre-feet of water that the water contracts represent; |
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| 53 | 53 | | 46 (c) water shares that the person claims to own and the amount in acre-feet of water that |
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| 54 | 54 | | 47the shares represent; |
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| 55 | 55 | | 48 (d) water rights described in Subsection (2)(a) for which a nonuse application has been |
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| 56 | 56 | | 49filed under Section 73-1-4 and the amount in acre-feet of water that the water rights represent; |
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| 57 | 57 | | 50 (e) a list of the unapproved applications to appropriate water filed by the person and |
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| 58 | 58 | | 51the amount in acre-feet of water that the unapproved applications represent; and |
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| 59 | 59 | | 52 (f) a break down of inventory by surface water and underground water. |
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| 60 | 60 | | 53 (3) The person filing the information required under Subsection (2) shall report the |
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| 61 | 61 | | 54information in the maximum amount of acre-feet for each item listed in Subsection (2). |
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| 62 | 62 | | 55 (4) The comprehensive inventory provided to the division under this section is a public |
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| 63 | 63 | | 56record. |
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| 64 | 64 | | 57 (5) Submission of the comprehensive inventory in acre-feet with the division does not |
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| 65 | 65 | | 58constitute official verification or approval of a claim made in the comprehensive inventory. 02-24-23 2:02 PM H.B. 562 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 59 (6) The state engineer may by rule, made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, |
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| 68 | 68 | | 60Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, require additional information related to the |
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| 69 | 69 | | 61comprehensive inventory including reporting: |
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| 70 | 70 | | 62 (a) amounts in acre-feet; |
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| 71 | 71 | | 63 (b) depletion or usage; |
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| 72 | 72 | | 64 (c) comparisons of the comprehensive inventory over time; |
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| 73 | 73 | | 65 (d) waste; |
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| 74 | 74 | | 66 (e) unaccounted water or leakage by meter; or |
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| 75 | 75 | | 67 (f) evaporation. |
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| 76 | 76 | | 68 (7) The division shall publish the comprehensive inventory on a public website. |
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