Sec. 8878.110. GROUNDWATER REDUCTION PLAN. (a) The authority may wholly or partly develop, prepare, revise, adopt, implement, enforce, manage, or participate in a groundwater reduction plan that is applicable only to the authority and one or more persons outside the authority. The authority may require that any groundwater reduction plan that the authority wholly or partly develops, prepares, revises, adopts, implements, enforces, or manages or in which the authority participates be the exclusive groundwater reduction plan that is binding and mandatory on some or all of the territory, persons, or wells located within the authority. A groundwater reduction plan may:

(1) specify the measures to be taken to reduce groundwater withdrawals;

(2) identify alternative sources of water, including water from the authority, to be provided to those affected;

(3) identify the rates, terms, and conditions under which alternative sources of water will be provided, which may be changed from time to time as considered necessary by the authority;

(4) specify the dates and extent to which persons or districts within the authority's boundaries shall reduce or cease reliance on groundwater and accept water from alternative sources, including water from the authority;

(5) include other terms and measures that are consistent with the powers and duties of the authority;

(6) exceed the minimum requirements imposed by the Fort Bend Subsidence District or applicable subsidence district, including any applicable groundwater reduction requirements; and

(7) be amended from time to time at the discretion of the authority.

(b) Fees, user fees, rates, and charges of the authority may be imposed under this chapter for a person's participation in and benefit derived from the authority's groundwater reduction plan, a groundwater reduction plan in which the authority participates, or the authority's works, projects, improvements, and services to be provided by the authority under powers conferred by Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and this chapter.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 829 (S.B. 1870), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.