PUBLIC HEARING ON APPLICATION FOR PRODUCTION PERMIT FOR

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PUBLIC HEARING ON APPLICATION FOR PRODUCTION PERMIT FOR PECOS COUNTY FOR ROONEY PARK? Call to order at 10:08 a.m. the public hearing on application for a production permit for Pecos County Rooney Park. Party representing application: Pecos County Judge Shuster Protestant to application: None Page 2 of 6 ———————xxxx rrr rrr Minutes of 09-16-2025 Public Comment: None President Janet Groth declared the application uncontested. General Manager Ty Edwards and Judge Shuster were sworn in. General Manager Ty Edwards presented the application to the Board, with additional remarks from Judge Shuster. Pecos County has made an application for a Production Permit with the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District for 1 well located at 202 US Highway 285 South. The application requests authorization to produce 250 acre-feet/year for Irrigation Use from the Edwards Trinity Aquifer for Rooney Park. The County drilled the irrigation well on July 1-2, 2025. An 8-hour pump test was conducted on July 14-17, 2025, at 350 gallons per minute. The District will continue to monitor the water levels each month and keep the Board up to date on any changes. The application is administratively complete. ll Adjourn hearing and consider and/or act on application for production permit for Pecos County. President Janet Groth recessed the hearing at 10:20 a.m. Wayne Tinkler made a motion to approve the production permit application as presented from the Edwards Trinity Aquifer. Motion seconded by Vanessa Cardwell. Motion passed. Vote: 9FOR. -0-Oppose 2Absent 0 Abstain REGULAR BOARD MEETING — CONTINUED Vi Update on Texas Legislature’s 89'" regular and special sessions. General Manager Edwards gave an update on the second special session. None of the groundwater related bills passed. Vil 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 filed on October 11, 2024. e On August 19, 2025 Judge Laurie Eiserloh issued her decision finding plaintiff has failed to establish jurisdiction and granting defendants’ request to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. e The District has met with TCEQ’s senior management and program staff and discussed the new grant program to plug wells in Pecos County. TCEQ held a Rulemaking hearing on January 29, 2025. The District attended the hearing and made comments. TCEQ held a workshop on 02-20-2025 to discuss and solicit feedback about eligible and ineligible expenses and the Page 3 of 6 —_—_—_—_———————————————_—__—_—_—_—_—_—————____— Minutes of 09-16-2025 definition of administrative costs, how the LWWGP will fund eligible projects and how TCEQ expects to apply the prioritization criteria that will be specified in the rule and what further refinements to the prioritization criteria might be included in the RFGA. The District is awaiting a direct award grant contract. TCEQ staff anticipates releasing the draft contract at the end of October 2025. Vill | Update on Fort Stockton Holdings, L.P. (FSH)-MPGCD Joint Study, Threshold Water Level Update and Drilling of New Rustler Monitor on Williams Farms. The Board and General Manager discussed the ongoing groundwater monitoring of the FSH threshold water levels. All wells are working and operating properly, and no wells are near any threshold water levels that would trigger cutbacks according to the FSH special permit conditions. A link to the FSH threshold water levels is available at https://mpgcd.halff.com/Dashboard. General Manager Ty Edwards screen-shared and provided an overview of current data. Williams Farms and Fort Stockton Holdings have approved the drilling of the Rustler Monitor Well. The seismic study was conducted the week of April 29- May 2, 2025. Raymond Straub briefed the board on the current drilling activities. The well is currently at 250 ft with the 17 % in bit and working towards finishing the surface casing by

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