Texas Administrative Code › Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION › Part 10 - TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD › Chapter 358 - STATE WATER PLANNING GUIDELINES › Subchapter A - STATE WATER PLAN DEVELOPMENT › Section 358.4 - Guidelines

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(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.