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<br />->.' -. <br /> <br />The law establishes three levels of management. The highest <br />order involves the establishment of four active management areas <br />dnd .thc procedures and criteria to create additional management <br />areas in the future. The law created the Phoenix active management <br />area, which includes all of the metropolitan area where we're <br />meeting, the valley drainage area; the Tucson active management <br />area, which includes all of the upper Santa Cruz drainage basin and <br />the f'vra Valley; the Pinal active. management area, which is all of <br />the floor of Pinal County .and drainage area, and the Prescott active <br />management area, which includes the Little Chino Valley. Wi.thin <br />those active management areas grandfathered groundwater rights are <br />to be quantified and no expansion of agriculture will be permitted <br />(only those acres that have been irrigated during the prece;ding five <br />years, January 1, 1975 to January 1, 1980 are entitled to be irrigated <br />in the future). It will be necessary to install a measuring device <br />on every well except for exempt dOmestic wells pumping 35 gallons <br />per ~inute or less and not irrigating more. than an acre. Pump <br />assessments will be levied in the' active management areas and there <br />are prOVisions to issue new permits under some rather strict criteria <br />for uses other than agriculture within active management areas. <br />Within these active management areas, 80% of the state's <br />population resides and 75%. of the water depletions are taking place. <br />So we've got a large part of the state under this very high level of <br />management. With the exception of two critical groundwater areas <br />that were established under preViOUS law which restricted the de- <br />velopment of new irrigated land, all of the other critical groundwater <br />areas were absorbed into the new active management areas. For the <br /> <br />B-12 <br />