The Kansas Department of Agriculture has presented draft regulations pertaining to the initiation and review of Intensive Groundwater Use Control Areas (IGUCA).  Click on the following link to both examine and make comments regarding these draft regulations http://www.ksda.gov/dwr/statutes/id/170. 

Comments will be accepted now until the public hearing which will be held on February 12, 2009 in Topeka.  You can also view a summary of the proposed regulations by visiting this website http://www.ksda.gov/dwr/content/308/cid/1496. 

Kansas Farm Bureau has actively been engaged in helping to craft IGUCA regulations in an effort to implement policy developed by our members on this topic during our 2007 annual meeting.