Senate Bill No. 344–Senator Shaffer

 

March 14, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Natural Resources

 

SUMMARY—Makes various changes relating to underground water. (BDR 48‑956)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                    Effect on the State: Yes.

 

CONTAINS UNFUNDED MANDATE (§ 1)

(Not Requested by Affected Local Government)

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to underground water; authorizing certain persons to accumulate a credit toward the cost of connecting to a water supply provided by certain entities; requiring the state engineer to adopt certain regulations relating to such a credit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. Chapter 534 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

1-2  new section to read as follows:

1-3    1.  A person who obtains water from a domestic well that is equipped

1-4  with a meter which measures the amount of water drawn from the well

1-5  and who, following use, circulates that water through a septic tank and

1-6  leach field is entitled to accumulate credit toward the cost of the local

1-7  and regional connection fees and capital improvements necessary for

1-8  making the connection to a water supply provided by an entity such as a

1-9  water district or municipality engaged in furnishing water in an amount

1-10  equal to 25 cents per gallon of water that is circulated through the septic

1-11  tank and leach field.

1-12    2.  If a person who has accumulated credit pursuant to subsection 1

1-13  desires to or is required to obtain water from an entity such as a water

1-14  district or municipality engaged in furnishing water, the cost of the local

1-15  and regional connection fees and capital improvements necessary for

1-16  making the connection to the water supply provided by the entity must be

1-17  reduced by the amount of credit the person has accumulated pursuant to

1-18  subsection 1, up to a maximum reduction of the full amount of the cost

1-19  of such fees and improvements.

2-1    3.  The state engineer shall adopt regulations that provide a method

2-2  for calculating the amount of water a person, following use, circulates

2-3  through a septic tank and leach field. Such a method must be based upon

2-4  the amount of water the person draws from a domestic well, as reflected

2-5  on the meter that measures the amount of water drawn from the well.

2-6    Sec. 2.  The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply

2-7  to any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the

2-8  provisions of this act.

2-9    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval for the

2-10  purpose of adopting regulations by the state engineer and on
October 1, 2001, for all other purposes.

 

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