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Bill Text

SB1610 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: groundwater; transporting 
 requirements; technical correction

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SB 1610

 Introduced by 

 Senator 
 Shope

An Act

amending 
section 45-557, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to groundwater.

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

Section 1. Section 45-557, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE45-557. Requirements for transporting groundwater to an initial active 
management area; exception

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is being or will be withdrawn in a groundwater basin or sub-basin pursuant to 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 section 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groundwater withdrawn in a groundwater basin or sub-basin pursuant to this 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 percent of 
its central Arizona project water entitlement under its central Arizona project 
water delivery subcontract.

(b) Accepted delivery of or exchanged eighty per cent percent 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groundwater withdrawn in the Big Chino sub-basin of the Verde river groundwater 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 section 45-555.

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