§ 45-570 — Hearing on management plans; notice; procedures

A. The director shall hold a public hearing on each proposed management plan in each active management area prior to final adoption of the management plan.

B. The director shall give notice of the hearing within thirty days after the proposed management plan is completed. The notice shall include a summary of the management plan, a map or a description of the boundaries of the active management area, and the time and place of the hearing. The notice shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which the active management area is located.

C. The hearing shall be held at a location within the active management area as soon as practicable but no less than thirty days and no more than sixty days after the first publication of the notice of the hearing.

D. At the hearing, the director shall present data in support of the adoption of the proposed management plan and a summary of the comments on the draft management plan made to the director by the groundwater users advisory council pursuant to section 45-421, paragraph 1. Any person may appear at the hearing either in person or by representative and submit oral or documentary evidence for or against the adoption of the management plan.