2007 House Bill 5065 ↩

House Roll Call 424: Passed

To redefine in a more restrictive manner the “index flow” on which determinations are made regarding whether commercial or industrial groundwater withdrawals are affecting streams or rivers. (For example, a flow change that reduced fish density in a coldwater river by 1 percent would be prohibited; a Senate-passed bill makes this 3 percent.) This would make it easier to impose more restrictions and regulations based on a claim that withdrawals are affecting water flow levels in streams. Also, to no longer consider bottled water operations as being in the same class of 'consumptive uses' as agricultural products, which would have the effect of subjecting them to much more restrictive permitting requirements, regulations, and restrictions.