WITNESS LIST
Natural Resources Committee
April 9, 2019 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
For:
Bishop, Karen (San Antonio River Authority)
Metzger, Luke (Environment Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Embrey, Ty (Water Environment Association of Texas)
Flippin, Kenneth (Self)
Franco, Brie (City of Austin)
Haverlah, Sandra (Environmental Defense Fund)
Lieberknecht, Chloe (The Nature Conservancy)
Matiella, David (Self; U.S. Green Building Council)
Mullins, Chris (Self; Save Our Springs Alliance)
Parenteau, Julia (Texas Realtors)
Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Reed, Ender (Harris County Commissioner Court)
Rounds, Shaylan (U.S. Green Building Council)
Shelley, Adrian (Public Citizen)
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (Texas Nursery & Landscape Association)
Tatum, Alexis (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Womack, Daniel (Dow)
For:
Wilson, Phil (Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA))
Against:
Gangnes, Michele (Self; Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund and Neighbors for Neighbors)
Murphy, James Lee (Self; League of Independent Voters)
Wier, Andrew (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)
Brown, Kirby (Lower Colorado River Basin Coalition)
Geske, Matthew (Austin Chamber of Commerce)
Hodges, Mike (Texas Press Association)
Oney, Tom (Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA))
Reed, Cyrus (Lone Star Chapter, Sierra Club)
Against:
Curtis, Linda (Self; League of independent voters of texas)
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On:
Fajardo, Erick (Sunset Advisory Commission (staff))
For:
Webb, Summer (Culberson County Groundwater Conservation District)
Against:
Brown, Mark (Self)
Kenney, James (Self)
Patterson, Bill (Wise Asset No. 8, Ltd.)
On:
Mathews, Greg (Chevron)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Cocanougher, Robert (Wise asset #11)
Cowden, Jax (Self; 9K Ranch LLC)
Morrison, Louis (DFRanch)
On:
Hatter, Robert (Texas General Land Office)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cohen, Howard (Schwartz, Page & Harding, L.L.P.)
Patel, Kirti (Richfield Ranch Investments, LLC)
For:
Flippin, Kenneth (Self)
Matiella, David (Self; U.S. Green Building Council)
Metzger, Luke (Environment Texas)
Vasquez, Lisa (Self)
Against:
Colangelo, Laura (Texas Private Schools Association)
On:
Chauvin, Gary (TCEQ)
La Caille, Cari-Michel (TCEQ)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)
Curtis, Linda (Self; League of independent voters of texas)
Gangnes, Michele (Self; Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund and Neighbors for Neighbors)
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For:
Griffith, Idona (Self)
Hodges, Mike (Texas Press Association)
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Kelman, Clemence (TexPIRG)
Kennon, Suzi (Texas PTA)
Montellano, Alex (Self)
Mullins, Chris (Self; Save Our Springs Alliance)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Rivera, Warlan Dominic (Self)
Rounds, Shaylan (U.S. Green Building Council)
Shelley, Adrian (Public Citizen)
Thielman, Sam (Self)
Travis, Clayton (Texas Pediatric Society)
Williams, Paige (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Against:
Campbell, Grover (Texas Association of School Boards)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cohen, Howard (Schwartz, Page & Harding, L.L.P.)
Yager III, Sam (IMS Capital Inc.)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Mims, Con (Nueces River Authority)
Nasr, Danielle (Sunset Advisory Commission)
On:
Chenoweth, Todd (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Against:
Mendes, Paul (City of Magnolia)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Wall, Scot (Self)
For:
Gates, Gary (Self; Gatesco, Inc.)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Jackson, Kyle (Texas Apartment Association)
Against:
Embrey, Ty (City of Garland)
For:
Kelley, Terry (Johnson County Special Utility District)
Lary, Trey (Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP)
Zent, Lara (Texas Rural Water Association)
On:
Benter, Tammy (Public utility commission of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cammack, Kerry (SouthWest Water Company)
Carlton, John (Texas state association of fire and emergency districts)
Heckler, Jeff (Green Valley Special Utility District)
Heckler, Jeff (Sharyland Water Suppy Corporation)
Johnson, Morgan (San Jose Water)
Morris, Joe (Aqua Water Supply Corporation)
Norman, Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
For:
Dies, Martin (Orange County Drainage District)
On:
Green, David (GLO)
Kelley, Phil (Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Sims, Allen (Self; Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7)
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For:
Embrey, Ty (Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District; Middle Pecos GCD)
Harward, Heather (Brazos Valley GCD)
Harward, Heather (Texas Water Supply Partners)
On:
Mace, Robert (The Meadows Center on Water and the Environment at Texas State University)
Murphy, James Lee (Self; League of Independent Voters)
Wier, Andrew (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cubriel, Randy (Nucor)
Lieberknecht, Chloe (The Nature Conservancy)
Lilly, Hillary (San Antonio River Authority)
Martinsson, Leah (Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts)
Oney, Tom (Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA))
Phillips, Matt (Brazos River Authority)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Tatum, Alexis (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Turner, Robert (Self; West texas alliance of ground water management districts)
Wisdom, Christina (Occidental Petroleum)
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League)
Yancy, Justin (Texas Business Leadership Council)
Against:
Curtis, Linda (Self; League of independent voters of texas)
On:
Chenoweth, Todd (Texas Water Development Board)
Gangnes, Michele (Self; Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund and Neighbors for Neighbors)
On:
Nasr, Danielle (Sunset Advisory Commission)
For:
Patteson, Kevin (Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority)
On:
Poe, Sherry (Friends of Lakewood)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Miller, Scott (Alliance Regional Water Authority)
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Against:
Murphy, James Lee (Self; League of Independent Voters)
On:
Nasr, Danielle (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cohen, Howard (Schwartz, Page & Harding, L.L.P.)
Patel, Kirti (Terra Investments, LP; Prima Terra LLC; Primewood Investments, LP)
Against:
Curtis, Linda (Self; League of independent voters of texas)
For:
Langford, Ivan (Gulf Coast Water Authority)
Against:
Murphy, James Lee (Self; League of Independent Voters)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bounds, Scott (Gulf Coast Water Authority)
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