The committee will meet to hear invited and public
testimony on the following charges:
Monitoring: Monitor the agencies and programs under the
Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant
legislation passed by the 88th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all
associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the
intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
·SB 28, relating to financial
assistance provided and programs administered by the Texas Water Development
Board.
Water Reuse Expansion: Examine opportunities to expand
the reuse of waters in Texas as an additional water supply and identify
funding deficiencies for water reuse projects and regulatory impediments that
make expansion of water reuse difficult in Texas.
Reliability of Clean Water Access: Evaluate the causes,
durations, and incidence of boil water notices issued by public water
systems. Identify solutions to keep critical water infrastructure online
during public water system failures and consider whether policy changes are
necessary to prevent interruption to the public’s access to clean, reliable
drinking water.
Groundwater Infrastructure: Examine Texas groundwater
data infrastructure, data collection, and monitoring practices and identify
policy solutions for improvement in the areas of understanding local
groundwater conditions; groundwater modeling for planning and
decision-making; and resource management
Electronic public comments may be submitted for:
Implementation of SB 28
Water reuse
Reliability of clean water
access
Groundwater infrastructure
For those persons who will be testifying, information for
in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx
A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available
here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/
Instructions related to public access to the meeting
location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/
Texas residents who wish to electronically submit
comments related to agenda items on this notice without testifying in person
can do so until the hearing is adjourned by visiting: https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c390