PUBLIC HEARING ON DRILLING PERMIT

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PUBLIC HEARING ON DRILLING PERMIT APPLICATION FOR LONESTAR DREAM | Call to order at 10:08 a.m. the public hearing on Application for a Drilling Permit Lonestar Dream. Party representing application: Jesus Cerna Protestant to application: None Public Comment: None General Manager Ty Edwards presented the application to the board. Lonestar Dream, Inc has made application for a Drilling Permit with the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District for 1 well located on 64.00-acre surface lease located in the T&P RR Co. Survey, Section 32, Block 49, Abstract 8479, Old Courtney Ranch Company, in Pecos County, Texas. The well is projected to be 334 feet in depth and drilled into the Edwards Trinity Aquifer. The estimated rate of withdraw is 200-300 gallons per minute and the purpose of the well will be for Industrial Use, for a Bitcoin Facility to cool computers. The application is administratively complete. Once the well is drilled a pump test is required to determine flow rate. A production permit will need to be submitted after the pump test is complete. ll Adjourn Hearing and consider and/or act on Application for a Drilling Permit for Lonestar Dream. President Jerry McGuairt adjourned the hearing at 10:21 a.m. Vanessa Cardwell made a motion to approve the drilling permit application from the Edwards Trinity Aquifer. Motion seconded by Puja Boinpally. Motion passed. Vote: 9FOR -0-Oppose 2Absent 0 Abstain REGULAR BOARD MEETING — CONTINUED at 10:22 a.m. IV Consider and/or act upon Financial Audit for the Year ending 09-30-2021. Rocky Rives with Smith and Rives, PC Certified Public Accountants presented the audit to the Board and answered all questions. The opinion rendered is an unmodified opinion which is the best that can be rendered. The financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental activities, the major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the MPGCD, as of September 30, 2021, and the respective changes in financial position thereof for the year ended in conformity with the ee ::;,, Minutes of 03-22-2022 Page 3 of 6 “GAAP” (generally accepted accounting principles), including those principles generally accepted for government entities in the United States of America. There are no findings that require disclosure or corrective action in the audit report. Vanessa Cardwell made a motion to approve the Financial Audit for year ending 09-30-2021 as presented. Motion seconded by Ronnie Cooper. Motion passed. Vote: 9FOR -0-Oppose 2Absent 0 Abstain Vv Consider and/or act upon General Manager's 2021 Annual Report. The annual report was presented to the board last month. Alvaro Mandujano, Jr made a motion to accept the 2021 Annual Report with the Annual Financial Audit. Motion seconded by Jeff Sims. The annual report is available at: https://www.middlepecosged.org/pdf/2021-Annual%20Manager%20Report- Complete.pdf?_t=1644959939 Motion passed. Vote: 9FOR -0-Oppose 2Absent 0 Abstain Vil Consider and/or act upon Treasurer’s Report for the Month Ending February 28, 2022. General Manager Ty Edwards presented the Treasurer's report to the board. Vanessa Cardwell made a motion to approve the Treasurer's Report ending February 28, 2022 as presented. Motion seconded by Ronnie Cooper. Motion passed. Vote: 9FOR -0-Oppose 2Absent 0 Abstain Vil Update on San Andres well-plugging initiative and possible action on legal remedies in District Court in Pecos and/or Travis Counties. District Consultant Raymond L Straub Jr, P.G. of Straub Corporation provided a preliminary verbal report on the laboratory results from the groundwater sampling event that was performed on the Boehmer Lake (Sloane Blair No. 1) Flowing Well on February 14, 2022. The preliminary results from the analyses indicated elevated radionuclide constituents above the EPA Primary Drinking Water Standards were present in the provided sample. Additionally, several water quality consti

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