Document Type
Peach Sheet
Abstract
The Act replaces the Georgia rule relating to the development of water management plans for a series of rivers in Georgia by establishing a system to develop a comprehensive state-wide water management plan. The Act creates a water council that will work in cooperation with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to establish a plan to propose to the General Assembly no later than the 2008 legislative session. The General Assembly can then approve the plan, reject the plan or create a plan of its own. If the General Assembly has not adopted a plan by the end of the 2008 legislative session, the last plan proposed by the Water Council will become effective.
Recommended Citation
Georgia State University Law Review,
CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES Comprehensive State-Wide Water Management Planning Act: Enact the "Comprehensive State-Wide Water Management Planning Act"; Change Certain Provisions Relating to River Basin Management Plans; Require the Development of a State-Wide Water Management Plan; Provide for a Water Council and for its Composition and Duties; Provide Procedures for Plan Development, Adoption, and Revision; Provide for Related Matters; Amend Code Section 50-13-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Relating to Procedural Requirements for Adoption, Amendment, or Repeal of Rules, Emergency Rules, Limitations on Actions to Contest Rules, and Legislative Override; Repeal Conflicting Laws; Amend Code Section 2-6-27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Relating to Additional Duties and Powers of the State Soil and Water Commission; and for Other Purposes,
21
Ga. St. U. L. Rev.
(2012).
Available at:
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol21/iss1/15