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<br />limited during the first management period to a pumping assessment <br />of $1 an acre-foot to help pay the cost of administration. The <br />philosophy is that the state will pay one half of the cost of <br />administration and the actual pumpers are supposed to pay the <br />other half. And our estimate is that we will have to assess a <br />pump tax of about $.50 to achieve that, takin~ into acount the <br />amount of water that is being pumped and would be pumped within , <br />these active management areas. Starting in 1990, the Director can <br />increase that by up to $2 an acre-foot for purposes of augmenting <br />the water supply. Starting in the year 2000, he can increase it by <br />another $2 an acre-foot to obtain the monies ,necessary for pur- <br />chasing and retirement of agricultural land. <br />With rega~d to wells, all wells everywhere in the state must <br />be registered within two years, a little less than a year and a half <br />from now. All drilling of new wells or any modifications of exist- <br />ing wells must be performed by licensed will drillers in accordance <br />with construction standards established by the Department. That is <br />all brand new stuff, too. There are also some very tough enforce- <br />ment provisions in the law and I am not going to go ihto those at <br />this time. <br />Where we have had the most problems with this new law is in its <br />application to new housing subdivisions. The old law, enacted in <br />1973, what we call the adequacy of water supply law, wal3 strictly <br />a "protect the buyer" type of law. It required the subdivider to <br />submit his plans for providing a water supply for the subdivil3ion <br />to the Arizona Water conimission for its review. The Water Commission <br />was to make a finding that the supply wal3 adequate or inadequate, <br /> <br />B-18 <br />