SB 6802 - DIGEST

 

     Provides that the department and the attorney general shall intervene in or initiate as necessary any action or proceeding in or with an adjoining state, adjoining province, or agency or legal subdivision of an adjoining state or adjoining province, upon the request of a municipality of this state, to protect the requesting municipality's interests relating to the allocation of the use of water or water quality of such aquifer, aquifers, or any interstate or international nonmarine body of water.  Such action may include litigation and negotiation through appropriate processes of interstate compacts or other available means of legal redress.