Montana Code 85-2-281. Reporting requirements
85-2-281. (Temporary) Reporting requirements. The department and the water court shall:
Terms Used In Montana Code 85-2-281
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(1)provide quarterly reports to the water policy interim committee in accordance with 5-11-210 on:
(a)the progress of the adjudication on a basin-by-basin basis;
(b)the number of basins for which examination was completed during the reporting period;
(c)the number and type of decrees issued in the preceding year and in each quarter of the current year and an update on summary reports in review;
(d)the number of claims resolved each month in the preceding year;
(e)the percentage of claims resolved by basin, limited to basins under active review by the water court, after issuance of a decree and passage of the deadline of the notices of intent to appear; and
(f)compact status describing compacts approved by the water court and pending compacts;
(2)include a status report on the adjudication in their presentation to the applicable appropriation subcommittees during each legislative session including the number of basins for which examination was completed during the reporting period; and
(3)provide a budget that outlines how each of the entities will be funded in the next biennium, including general fund money and state special revenue funds. (Terminates June 30, 2028–secs. 10, 11, Ch. 269, L. 2015.)