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<br />the phones rang off the wall, the legislators got criticized, the <br />Governor got criticized and I got, really pasted, even though it <br />was something the law required that we do. <br />Anyway, these people now will have until September 14 of this <br />year to file their applications. Then we are required to prepare <br />a register of the applications and submit that for review and <br />comment and then hold hearings on any protests. Then there is a <br />court appeals process and following all of that, we issue certifi- <br />cates of grandfathered rights and publish a register of all of the <br />grand fathered rights, subbasin by subbasin. It is not clear at this <br />point just how soon that is going to be accon:Plishea because o.f the <br />hearing process and I suspect that it will take quite awhile. But <br />then in the future, any sale of a grandfathered right or a portion of <br />that right has to be recorded with the Department and the Department <br />has to keep this register current at all times. <br />There are three kinas of grandfathered rights in an active <br />management area and I caution tha.t this aoes not apply outside of <br />the active management area. The first, and the one that,will cover <br />most of the pumpage of groundwater, is the irrigation grandfatherea <br />right. As I indicated, the lands must have been irrigated between <br />January 1, 1975 and January 1, 1980 and in any future establishment <br />of an active management area, land must have been irrigated during <br />the five years preceding the establishment of the active management <br />area. No expansion or movement to other lands will be per- <br />mitted. Now the right, interestinglY, is based on the land irri- <br />.gated and is in fact a right to irrigate specific lanas rather than <br />the 'right t.O use a specific quantity of water. The quantity <br />assigned with this right is something that will be established by the <br /> <br />B-14 <br />