HB 2573 — technical correction; plants; containers; non-irrigation

Fifty-seventhHouse LegislatureEngrossed Firsttechnical Regularcorrection; Session COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES, ENERGY & WATER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO H.B.

2573plants; (Reference to printed bill) Amendment instruction key:

[GREENcontainers; UNDERLINING IN BRACKETS] indicates text added to statute or previously enacted session law.

[Greennon-irrigation underlining(now: in brackets] indicates text added to new session law or text restoring existing law.

[GREENgroundwater; STRIKEOUT IN BRACKETS] indicates new text removed from statute or previously enacted session law.

[Greenplants; strikeout in brackets] indicates text removed from existing statute, previously enacted session law or new session law.

<<Greenwine carets>>grapes; indicate a section added to the bill.

<<Greennon-irrigation) strikeoutState inof carets>>Arizona indicatesHouse aof sectionRepresentatives removedFifty-seventh fromLegislature theFirst bill.Regular Session HOUSE BILL 2573 AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 45-465.04, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES;

TheRELATING billTO asTHE proposedGROUNDWATER toCODE. be amended is reprinted as follows:

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE) - i - H.B.

2573 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

[NOTWITHSTANDINGNOTWITHSTANDING SECTION 45-402, PARAGRAPH 18,]The18, the use of groundwater to water plants in containers on or above the surface of the ground[,ground, PLANTS GROWN USING HYDROPONICS AND WINE GRAPES]GRAPES is a non-irrigation use in an active management area.

Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, in an initial active management area, a person who holds a certificate of irrigation grandfathered right may withdraw groundwater pursuant to the right and use the groundwater to water plants in containers on or above the surface of the certificated acres[,acres, TO WATER PLANTS GROWN HYDROPONICALLY ON OR ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE CERTIFICATED ACRES OR TO WATER WINE GRAPES GROWN ON THE CERTIFICATED ACRES]ACRES if the plants are grown for sale or human consumption or for use as feed for livestock, range livestock or poultry, as those terms are defined in section 3-1201.

HouseD. Amendments to H.B.

2573Except D.as provided in section 45-563.02, if a person uses groundwater to water plants in containers OR WINE GRAPES pursuant to subsection B of this section, the total amount of water used by the person for that purpose and for any irrigation uses on the certificated acres may not exceed the amount allowed by the irrigation water duty for the farm.

Except as provided in section 45-563.02, if a person uses groundwater to water plants [in containers] [OR WINE GRAPES] pursuant to subsection B of this section, the total amount of water used by the person for that purpose and for any irrigation uses on the certificated acres may not exceed the amount allowed by the irrigation water duty for the farm.

The director may not register credits to the flexibility account established pursuant to section 45-467 for a farm in any year in which the person who holds the certificate of irrigation grandfathered right for the farm uses groundwater to water plants [inin containers]containers [OROR WINE GRAPES]GRAPES on or above the surface of the certificated acres pursuant to subsection B of this section.

On request by the owner of a certificate of irrigation grandfathered right, the director shall separate the certificate into two certificates, with one certificate for those certificated acres on which plants [inin containers][containers [OROR WINE GRAPES THAT]THAT are watered with groundwater pursuant to subsection B of this section and one certificate for those certificated acres on which groundwater is used for an irrigation use.

If the- director1 separates- aH.B. certificate of irrigation grandfathered right into two certificates pursuant to this subsection, the certificated acres associated with each certificate shall be considered a separate farm for THE purposes of subsection E of this section.

2573 the director separates a certificate of irrigation grandfathered right into two certificates pursuant to this subsection, the certificated acres associated with each certificate shall be considered a separate farm for THE purposes of subsection E of this section.

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