Sec. 36.414.  CONSOLIDATED HEARING ON APPLICATIONS.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), a district shall process applications from a single applicant under  consolidated notice and hearing procedures on written request by the applicant if the district requires a separate permit or permit amendment application for:
(1)  drilling, equipping, operating, or completing a well or substantially altering the size of a well or well pump under Section 36.113;
(2)  the spacing of water wells or the production of groundwater under Section 36.116; or
(3)  transferring groundwater out of a district under Section 36.122.
(b)  A district is not required to use consolidated notice and hearing procedures to process separate permit or permit amendment applications from a single applicant if the board cannot adequately evaluate one application until it has acted on another application.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 970 (H.B. 1763), Sec. 17, eff. September 1, 2005.