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public hearing. A separate banking account has been created to administer the export fees collected for a mitigation fund to ensure responsible management of local groundwater resources, this export fee increase will carry out the statutory purposes in Texas Water Code 36.207(b), which includes assessing and addressing impacts associated with groundwater development. tl Adjourn hearing at 10:27 and consider and/or act on annual statutory increase in export fees and a 3% increase effective in 2025 (21.22¢/1,000 gal). Janet Groth made a motion to approve the export fee increase as presented which increases the export fees to 21.22¢ per 1,000 gallons. Motion seconded by Vanessa Cardwell. Motion passed. Vote: 9FOR -1-Oppose 1Absent 0 Abstain Alvaro Mandujano Jr. voted against the motion. REGULAR BOARD MEETING — CONTINUED at 10:28 a.m. Vv Consider and/or act upon 2025 Amendments to Management Plan. Dr. Bill Hutchison made the Board aware that the Management Plan is ina format that is consistent with the Texas Water Development Board’s checklist to achieve administrative completeness. By adopting the Management Plan today, we will be on track to meet the deadline to have the Management Plan complete Page 3 of 9 —z{_—z—_— EEE Minutes of 05-20-2025 and submitted to TWDB. Once approved we will send an email to “Surface Water Management Entities”. Janet Groth made a motion to approve the 2025 Amendment to the Management Plan along with the Resolution and send it to Texas Water Development Board for their review and approval. Motion seconded by Puja Boinpally. Motion passed unanimously. Motion passed. Vote: 10 FOR -0-Oppose 1Absent 0 Abstain vi State legislative update (89"" Legislative Session commencing January 14, 2025). The District updated the Board on all relevant bills. The District is tracking all bills filed that affect GCD’s, open government or elections. We will be providing testimony as necessary and are actively involved in the Legislative Committee through TAGD. Ty Embrey joined the meeting and gave the Board a high-level overview of the status of the Capitol. The last day of session is June 2". Vil Update and possible action on Pecos County Groundwater Flow Model and Timeline on Tech Memos. A new draft tech memo has been created for the model grid and in support of model development. That tech memo and all the tech memos have been and continue to be on the District's webpage with peer review and feedback encouraged. Belding Farms Data processed 5600 data points from 1957 to 2023. TWDB had over 47,000 water levels from 1940 to 2024. EcoKai transducer data from FSH joint study had over 500,000 data points for 2021-2024. LRE and the Halff data management system had 15,000 groundwater data points. While calibrating the database we realized all the data from numerous studies have not been added to the database. Several discrepancies were recognized on some of the Belding Farms’ wells for elevations compared to the model grid. Belding Farms corrected the coordinates on the suspected wells and LRE updated the database. We have finalized the existing groundwater pumping data, recharge, aquifer parameters, boundary flows, spring locations, and surface water. We have begun working on groundwater evapotranspiration, model run specifications, Model calibration datasets, model calibration, groundwater budget, and model sensitivity. Dr. Hutchison updated the board on the Texas New Mexico legal battle that has been taking up much of his time. With that behind us the model should be finished by year end. Page 4of 9 ——————————————— Minutes of 05-20-2025 All tech memos associated with the model can be assessed at the following google link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1 HY/8JRV4omAgKPJWBta- T20hZUbtyaPS?usp=drive_link Vill Update and possible action on San Andres efforts at RRC and TCEQ, and MPGCD v. RRC and Commissioners, Cause No. D-1-GN-24-005222 (200" District Court, Travis County) and second cause

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