| (a) The executive administrator shall prepare, develop,
and formulate the state water plan and the Board shall adopt a state
water plan pursuant to the schedule in Texas Water Code §16.051.
The executive administrator shall identify the beginning of the 50-year
planning period for the state and regional water plans. The executive
administrator shall incorporate into the state water plan presented
to the Board those regional water plans approved by the Board pursuant
to Texas Water Code §16.053 and Chapter 357 of this title (relating
to Regional Water Planning). The Board shall, not less than 30 days
before adoption or amendment of the state water plan, publish notice
in the Texas Register of its intent
to adopt a state water plan and shall mail notice to each regional
water planning group. The Board shall hold a hearing, after which
it may adopt a water plan or amendments thereto.
(b) The state water plan shall include summaries for
the state and from approved regional water plans, when available,
which shall address, at a minimum, the following topics:
(1) Basis for planning, including sections on planning
history, Texas water statutes, rules, regulations, and Texas' water
supply institutions;
(2) Description of methods used for projecting future
population and water demands for municipal and associated commercial
and institutional uses, and projecting future water demands for manufacturing,
irrigation, steam electric power generation, mining, and livestock
water uses;
(3) Description of methods to address water quality
problems related to water supply, to ensure public health, safety
and welfare, to further economic growth, to protect agricultural and
natural resources, to determine water supply availability, and to
address drought response planning;
(4) Description of future conditions which shall, at
a minimum, include:
(A) Demands for water;
(B) Supplies currently available;
(C) Comparison of water demand and supply to identify
surpluses or needs of water;
(D) Social and economic impact of not meeting needs;
(E) Recommended solutions to meet needs;
(F) Needs for which no feasible water management strategy
exists; and
(G) Descriptions in subparagraphs (A) - (F) of this
paragraph shall be presented for each county and basin by the major
providers of water for municipal uses and for the following water
use categories: municipal and associated commercial and institutional
uses; manufacturing; irrigation; steam electric power generation;
mining; and livestock;
(5) Consideration of recommendations of river and stream
segments of unique ecological value and sites of unique value for
construction of reservoirs to the legislature for potential protection;
(6) Regulatory, administrative, and legislative recommendations
that the Board believes are needed and desirable to facilitate the
orderly development, management, and conservation of water resources,
to facilitate more voluntary water transfers, and the preparation
for and response to drought conditions in order that sufficient water
will be available at a reasonable cost to ensure public health, safety
and welfare, further economic development, and protect the agricultural
and natural resources of the entire state;
(7) The progress in meeting future water needs, including
an evaluation of implementation of all water management strategies
and projects that were recommended in the previous state water plan
and projects funded by the Board;
(8) Current and planned preparations for, and responses
to, drought conditions in the state to be used in the development
of the state's drought preparedness plan by the Drought Preparedness
Council; and
(9) With respect to projects included in the preceding
state water plan that were given a high priority by the board for
purposes of providing financial assistance under Texas Water Code,
Chapter 15, Subchapter G:
(A) An assessment of the extent to which the projects
were implemented in the decade in which they were needed; and
(B) An analysis of any impediments to the implementation
of any projects that were not implemented in the decade in which they
were needed.
|
| Source Note: The provisions of this §358.4 adopted to be effective August 12, 2012, 37 TexReg 5812; amended to be effective February 14, 2018, 43 TexReg 777; amended to be effective May 1, 2022, 47 TexReg 2547 |
