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<br />2-28 House Committee amended to appropriations <br /> <br />Page 6 of 22 <br /> <br />a $500,000.00 appropriation for going to Phase 2 on statewide <br />water supply investigation. In the statewide water supply <br />investigation conclusion, you might recall, about ten different <br />things they were gonna work on and one of those measures was to <br />facilitate discussion between basins. And I've oversimplified the <br />conclusion but - so the concern there was that we make sure that <br />whatever dollars are appropriated for this effort, whatever dollars <br />are appropriated for the statewide supply investigations, <br />that we're using those monies wisely and not being duplicative. So <br />I appreciate your efforts to put language in there Representative <br />Penry. <br /> <br />Rep. Pelll~v: <br /> <br />Thank you, Madame Chair. Moving on, were there other questions <br />or did you want to move on? <br /> <br />Madame Chair: <br /> <br />Oh, okay, go ahead. <br /> <br />Rep. Pelll~v: <br /> <br />L006 are some highly technical additions that came from <br />individuals within the Water Congress. Actually some of them are <br />important. If you go to subparagraphs D and E on <br />Lines 19 and 22, respectively. One of the things we've tried to do <br />is integrate this process with existing public input and notification <br />processes so that you don't, we don't create a new layer of process. <br />Subparagraph D does that. Directs them to sort of integrate them <br />to the extent possible. <br /> <br />On Line 22, you know, one of things that came out in the hearing <br />and our subsequent conversation is that basins themselves are <br />going to have their own sets of issues within the boundaries of <br />their own basin to wrestle with. And so what we said was, in Line <br />22, if a roundtable wants to break out subcommittees of this <br />roundtable to work through some of their own internal issues <br />before going forward as a basin that they are authorized to do so. <br /> <br />Madame Chair: Okay, so, Representative Penry, this part of the bill has to do with <br />those basin roundtables, right? <br /> <br />Rep. PelllY Correct <br /> <br />Madame Chair: And then they could set up subcommittees locally. <br /> <br />Rep. PelllY If they want to. <br /> <br />Madame Chair: Okay <br /> <br />www.escriptionist.com Page 6 of 22 <br />