PUBLIC HEARING ON PRODUCTION PERMIT

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PUBLIC HEARING ON PRODUCTION PERMIT APPLICATION FOR LONGFELLOWRANCH PARTNERS LP Call to order at 10:11 a.m. the public hearing on Application for a Production Permit for Longfellow Partners LP. Party representing application: Eddie McCarthy, Mike Thornhill, Kristie Duchesne and Rode Mills. Protestant to application: None Public Comment: None President McGuairt declared the application uncontested. Page 2 of 8 re Minutes of 04-15-2025 General Manager Ty Edwards presented the application to the board. Longfellow Ranch Partners, LP has made application for a Production Permit with the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District for a 2 well system approximately 25 miles South of Fort Stockton on US Highway 285 and 1 % mile North of Century Gas Plant on the North Side of Puckett Rd, in Pecos County, Texas. The application requests authorization to produce 322.6 acre-feet/year for Irrigation Use from the Rustler Aquifer. A 12-hour specific capacity pumping test was conducted on Well 9-1 on February 5! 2025, in accordance with District Rule 11.9.2(a). Based on the pump test data a calculated specific capacity of 2.72 gallons per minute per foot after 12 hours of pumping at an average rate of 243 gallons per minute. During the pump test we did not see any response to water levels in the Edwards Trinity Aquifer. The District will continue to monitor well 9-1 and add the well to its monthly monitor well route. ll Adjourn Hearing and consider and/or act on Application for a Production Permit for Longfellow Ranch Partners LP. President Jerry McGuairt recessed the hearing at 10:31 a.m. Jeff Sims made a motion to approve the production permit application as presented from the Rustler Aquifer. Motion seconded by Billy Jackson. Motion passed. Vote: 8FOR. -0-Oppose 3Absent 0 Abstain REGULAR BOARD MEETING — CONTINUED at 10:32 a.m. Vi Consider and/or act upon allocating Transport Fees into one or more Mitigation and Well Plugging Funds and approved revenue line item(s) for accounting. The Board discussed the District's current export fees and the idea of having a mitigation fund set up separate from our general operating account. Effective January 1, 2024, the maximum allowable rate the District may impose for an export fee under Rule 16.1(a)(2) shall increase for calendar year 2024 in accordance with the applicable subsections of Section 36.122 of the Texas Water Code. An increase in the export fee is not valid unless it is approved by the Board after a

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