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Arizona Revised Statutes Title 45. Waters § 45-557. Requirements for transporting groundwater to an initial active management area; exception

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A. Except as provided in subsections B and C of this section:

1. The director shall not consider groundwater that is being or will be withdrawn in a groundwater basin or sub-basin pursuant to this article or the Pinal active management area and transported to an initial active management area for purposes of determining or providing an assured water supply pursuant to § 45-576 if the groundwater is being or will be used by a city, town or private water company that was offered but did not sign a central Arizona project water delivery subcontract.

2. A city, town or private water company that has signed a central Arizona project water delivery subcontract may not use groundwater withdrawn in a groundwater basin or sub-basin pursuant to this article or the Pinal active management area and transported to an initial active management area until it has both:

(a) Demonstrated that it has the physical capacity, including the water treatment plant and delivery system, to accept delivery of ninety-five per cent of its central Arizona project water entitlement under its central Arizona project water delivery subcontract.

(b) Accepted delivery of or exchanged eighty per cent or more of the central Arizona project water available to it under its central Arizona project water delivery subcontract in at least one of the three years immediately preceding the year it intends to begin using groundwater transported away from a groundwater basin or sub-basin pursuant to this article or the Pinal active management area.

B. Subsection A of this section does not apply to groundwater withdrawn in the Big Chino sub-basin of the Verde river groundwater basin and transported to an adjoining initial active management area pursuant to § 45-555.

C. Groundwater transported to an adjoining initial active management area pursuant to § 45-555, subsections E and F shall be deemed to be legally available under the rules adopted pursuant to § 45-576.

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