Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 785 - Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Chapter 1 - Organization and Procedure of Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Subchapter 3 - Organization, Meetings and Comprehensive Water Plan
Section 785:1-3-6 - Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan

(a) Under the provisions of 82 O.S. 1981, §§1086.1 and 1086.2, the Board has promulgated, adopted and approved the "Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan", Board publication 94 dated April 1, 1980. Pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution No. 1004 approved and adopted by the Thirty-Eighth Oklahoma Legislature, First Regular Session, 1981, the "Plan" has been received, approved and adopted, in principle, by the Oklahoma Legislature.

(b) As provided and contemplated by law, the Plan is a general guide to be utilized in providing for and matching the future water needs and supplies of the State of Oklahoma and adoption of the Plan shall not be deemed to preclude the implementation of alternatives consistent with the basic and overall goals and objectives set forth in the Plan.

(c) The Board shall proceed in the performance of its water resource management, administration and planning efforts and activities in such a manner as shall be consistent with and in furtherance of the basic and overall goals, objectives, policies and recommendations set forth in the Plan.

(d) Under House Bill 2036 of the Second Session of the Forty-Third Legislature, the Board shall prepare decennial updates of the Plan, with the first decennial update to be prepared and submitted to the Legislature no later than September 1, 1995, and updates thereafter prepared and likewise submitted no later than September 1 of the fifth year following the taking of the Federal Decennial Census.