Arizona Laws 45-576.05. Alternative method for determining consistency with the management goal in a groundwater replenishment district; terminating designation
A. If at any time after January 1 of the calendar year following the year in which a groundwater replenishment district is required to submit its preliminary plan under Section 45-576.02, subsection A, paragraph 1 the director determines that one or more of the conditions prescribed in Section 45-576.01, subsection A, paragraphs 2 and 3 are not met and for as long as the condition or conditions are not met, the director shall consider only the groundwater replenishment district member’s projected supplies of surface water, effluent or groundwater withdrawn outside the active management area in which the district member is located and the amount in a long-term storage account established pursuant to Section 45-852.01 in making a determination of whether the district member’s projected water use is consistent with the management goal of the active management area under section 45-576.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 45-576.05
- Active management area: means a geographical area that has been designated pursuant to article 2 of this chapter as requiring active management of groundwater or, in the case of the Santa Cruz active management area, active management of any water, other than stored water, withdrawn from a well. See Arizona Laws 45-402
- Director: means the director of water resources, who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 45-101
- Effluent: means water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 45-101
- Groundwater: means water under the surface of the earth regardless of the geologic structure in which it is standing or moving. See Arizona Laws 45-101
- Municipal provider: means a city, town, private water company or irrigation district that supplies water for non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 45-561
- replenishment district: means a district that is established pursuant to Title 48, Chapter 27. See Arizona Laws 45-402
- Surface water: means the waters of all sources, flowing in streams, canyons, ravines or other natural channels, or in definite underground channels, whether perennial or intermittent, floodwater, wastewater or surplus water, and of lakes, ponds and springs on the surface. See Arizona Laws 45-101
B. If a groundwater replenishment district member is a municipal provider that was designated as having an assured water supply, and the director determines that one or more of the conditions prescribed by Section 45-576.01, subsection A, paragraphs 2 and 3 are no longer met, and until the director again determines that all of those conditions are met, the designation terminates unless the district member reapplies for and the director grants a redesignation pursuant to this subsection. In considering whether to redesignate the district member, the director shall only consider the following in determining whether the district member’s projected water use is consistent with the management goal of the active management area pursuant to section 45-576:
1. The district member’s projected supplies of:
(a) Surface water.
(b) Effluent.
(c) Groundwater withdrawn outside the active management area in which the district member is located.
2. The district member’s projected supply of groundwater withdrawn in the active management area in which the district member is located up to an amount equal to one hundred times the largest amount of groundwater withdrawn in the active management area by the district member for its customers’ use in any calendar year in the five calendar years immediately preceding the year in which the director determines that one of the conditions prescribed by section 45-576, subsection A, paragraphs 2 and 3 is no longer met.
3. The amount in a district member’s long-term storage account established pursuant to chapter 3.1 of this title.