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South Dakota Conservancy District (South Dakota Codified Laws: Title 46A Water Management; Chapter 46A-2)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
South Dakota
Document type
Legislation
Date
2018
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Water conservation zone Governance Institution Water abstraction Waterworks Hydropower generation
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter of South Dakota Codified Laws concerns the South Dakota Conservancy District. It provides that there is hereby created within the State of South Dakota, a conservancy district, to be known as the "South Dakota Conservancy District." The boundaries of the district shall coincide in all particulars with the boundaries of the State of South Dakota. Such district is a governmental agency, body politic and corporate with authority to exercise the powers specified in this chapter. The limited supply of, and increasing demand for water available within this state and the United States for agricultural and other beneficial uses and the more effective development and utilization of the land and water resources of this state makes necessary the fullest use of waters available to South Dakota and its citizens for the protection and preservation of the benefits therefrom, including opportunity for greater economic security, protection of health, property, and enterprise, and promotion of the prosperity and general welfare of the people of South Dakota. This involves and requires the exercise of the sovereign powers of the state and a public purpose, the accomplishment of which, among other things, demands, and is necessary, that the South Dakota Conservancy District be created in the manner herein provided so that construction of water resource facilities for the conservation, storage, distribution, and utilization of water for multiple purposes may commence. It is a matter of public policy that the district shall insofar as prudently possible market the power generated from hydroelectric projects constructed by reason of this chapter in such a manner as to afford all of the citizens of the State of South Dakota equal and nondiscriminatory rights to share in such power. To the extent prudently possible all of the citizens of the State of South Dakota who are customers of all electric suppliers shall be treated equally with no preferential right being given which would discriminate in the cost of such power being used by such citizens of this state. It is also a matter of public policy that to the extent reasonably prudent that power generated under the authority of this chapter shall be used within the State of South Dakota before being sold outside the State of South Dakota.

Full text
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Website
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