{"id":12753,"date":"2013-02-07T10:57:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2013-02-13T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:44:17","slug":"house-committee-votes-to-repeal-oklahomas-water-for-2060-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/02\/07\/house-committee-votes-to-repeal-oklahomas-water-for-2060-act\/","title":{"rendered":"House Committee Approves Bill Repealing Oklahoma&#8217;s Water for 2060 Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12756\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/paul-wesselhoft.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12756\" title=\"Paul Wesselhoft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/paul-wesselhoft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/paul-wesselhoft.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/paul-wesselhoft-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/paul-wesselhoft-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Oklahoma House of Representatives<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore<\/p>\n<\/div><p>A Oklahoma House committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would repeal the Water for 2060 Act, the state&#8217;s long-term water management plan.<\/p><p>House Bill 1562, authored by State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, would remove three sections of the law, which was enacted in 2012.<\/p><p>The bill would strike language concerning the state&#8217;s 50-year conservation goal of consuming no more freshwater in 2060 than was consumed statewide in 2012. The bill would also eliminate a 15-member advisory council.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>The bill leaves untouched a fourth section of the law authorizing water conservation grant programs.<\/p><p>\u201cI think trying to set policy for 50 years in the future is not responsible,\u201d Wesselhoft said in a statement. \u201cObviously, we are going to work to create greater water conservation in the state, but laws setting precise goals for 2060 is simply ludicrous. Oklahoma\u2019s population a half century from now will increase immensely and we will need much more water than the current law stipulates as a policy.\u201d<\/p><p>The Oklahoma Water Resources Board helped draft the Water for 2060 Act. The OWRB&#8217;s Executive Director J.D. Strong says HB 1562 would effectively kill the framework of the state&#8217;s long-term water plan.<\/p><p>&#8220;It basically rolls back and undoes everything we did last session,&#8221; Strong tells StateImpact.<\/p><p>The House of Representative&#8217;s Administrative Rules, Government Oversight and Repealer Committee approved HB 1562, which can now be considered for a vote on the House floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Oklahoma House committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would repeal the Water for 2060 Act, the state&#8217;s long-term water management plan.House Bill 1562, authored by State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, would remove three sections of the law, which was enacted in 2012.The bill would strike language concerning the state&#8217;s 50-year conservation goal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":12756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[161,427,93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12760,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions\/12760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}