WITNESS LIST
Natural Resources Committee
April 9, 2025 - 8:00 AM
For:
Holcomb, Kelley (Angelina & Neches River Authority)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Keslar, Chris (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Oliver, Austin (Sunset)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Hall, Scott (Lower Neches Valley Authority)
Keslar, Chris (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Kuhl, Annie (Sunset Advisory Commission)
For:
Montagne, David (Sabine River Authority of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Keslar, Chris (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ward, Kevin (Trinity River Authority of Texas)
On:
Durain, Katherine (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Keslar, Chris (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Against:
Costello, Stephen (Self)
Garcia, Commissioner Adrian (Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner)
On:
Petersen, Tina (Harris County Commissioners Court and Harris County Flood Control District)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Aragonez, Alexa (City of Houston)
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Against:
Briones, Lesley (Harris County Precinct 4)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Thompson, Rick (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
On:
Pena, Jessica (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Aragonez, Alexa (City of Houston)
Flippin, Kenneth (CHISPA)
Fowler, Perry (Self; Texas water infrastructure network)
Garcia, Buddy (Brownsville Public Utilities Board)
Gutierrez, Spencer (City of Sugar Land, Texas)
Hanes, Rachel (Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance)
Harward, Heather (Texas Water Supply Partners)
Harward, Heather (Upper Trinity Regional Water District)
Miller, Scott (City of Buda)
Ramirez, Rick (City of Austin)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Wright, Christine (City of San Antonio)
Yanas, Christine (Methodist Healthcare Ministries)
For:
Hanes, Rachel (Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance)
Smith, Walt (Self)
On:
Hale, J.D. (Texas Association of Builders)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ellis, Gregory (Self; Groundwater conservation district clients of the firm)
Entsminger, Tom (NWF)
Flippin, Kenneth (CHISPA)
Floerke, Sarah (Lower Colorado River Authority)
Garcia, Buddy (Self)
Giesinger, Ross (Environmental Defense Action Fund)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Metzger, Luke (Self; Environment Texas)
Nahrgang, Julie (Self; Water Environment Association of Texas)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Thompson, Rick (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Lary, Trey (Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP)
Pincoffs, Peter (PMB Capital Investments and PMB Rolling V Land LP)
Spence, Logan (Texas water supply)
On:
Nygren, Kim (TCEQ)
For:
Jones, Marvin (Self)
Against:
Ellis, Gregory (Self; Groundwater conservation district clients of the firm)
Embrey, Ty (Middle Trinity GCD; North Texas GCD; Northern Trinity GCD; Middle Pecos
GCD; Clearwater UWCD)
Foster, Adam (Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts)
Sledge, Brian (Prairielands GCD, Upper Trinity GCD, Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer
Conservation District)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bender, John (Texas Corn Producers Association)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Dorazio, Mark (Self)
Garcia, Buddy (Self)
Howe, Billy (Texas Farm Bureau)
Schumann, Peyton (Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)
Against:
Cacheaux, Lauren (West Texas Regional Groundwater Management Alliance)
Howard, Robert (Self)
Shaw, Doug (Upper Trinity GCD)
For:
Kirkle, Sarah (Texas Water Association)
Nichols, Darrell (Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority)
On:
Pena, Jessica (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Aragonez, Alexa (City of Houston)
Ellmer, Mindy (Tarrant Regional Water District)
Fowler, Perry (Self; Texas water infrastructure network)
Garcia, Buddy (Brownsville Public Utilities Board)
Harward, Heather (Texas Water Supply Partners)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Harward, Heather (Upper Trinity Regional Water District)
Hogan, Kristen (West Harris County Regional Water Authority)
Hogan, Kristen (North Fort Bend Water Authority)
Kelly, David (North Texas Municipal Water District)
Lary, Trey (Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP)
Lucio, Eddie (North Harris County Regional Water Authority)
McKaughan, Mary Alice (Texas Rural Water Association)
Phillips, Matt (Brazos River Authority)
Ramirez, Rick (City of Austin)
Wright, Christine (City of San Antonio)
Against:
Hjorth, Tyler (San Marcos TX Utilities)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Borer, Taylor (City of Garland)
Miller, Scott (City of Buda)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving)
Wells, Hope (San Antonio Water System)
On:
Clark, Leah (City of Georgetown)
For:
Black, Amanda (Self; City of Paradise)
Blackwood, James (Self; Walnut creek sud)
Clark, J.D. (Self; Wise County)
Dolan, Bryan (Self; City of Aurora Texas)
Holmes, Rodney (City of Boyd)
McDonald, James (Self; Wise County Chamber of Commerce)
Pellegrini, Ron (Self; Aurora City Council)
Shaw, Doug (Upper Trinity GCD)
Against:
Pincoffs, Peter (PMB Capital Investments and PMB Rolling V Land LP)
Scott, Natalie (Coats Rose Pc)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bourgeois, John (Self; City of Boyd)
Burns, Kevin (Self; Wise County Commissioners Court, Texas Association of Watershed
Sponsors Chair, National Watershed Coalition past Chair)
Cabrales Jr., John (Self; City of New Fairview)
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For:
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Shawn, Colby (Self)
Sledge, Brian (Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District)
Taylor, William (Self; City of Boyd)
Against:
Lary, Trey (Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP)
For:
Donley, Jr., Dennis W. (Self)
Fowler, Grace (Self)
Manning, Nan Robertson (Camp Longhorn)
Ortiz, Fermin (Self)
Sifleet, Todd (Self)
On:
Anderson, Joel (TCEQ)
Oney, Tom (Lower Colorado River Authority)
Sadlier, Robert (TCEQ)
Short, Sam (TCEQ)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cannon, Thure (Self)
Entsminger, Tom (NWF)
Fowler, Perry (Self; Texas water infrastructure network)
Golding, William (Self)
Hanes, Rachel (Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance)
Johnson, Leslie (Self)
Lary, Trey (Self)
Metzger, Luke (Self; Environment Texas)
Morehead, Tracy (Camping Association for Mutual Progress (C.A.M.P.))
Nahrgang, Julie (Self)
Shannon, Fred (Self)
Tips, Robert (Self)
Against:
Albright, Steven (AGC of Texas)
Grimes, Michael (Texas Aggregate and Concrete Association)
On:
Browning, Amy (TCEQ)
Mills, Kelly (TCEQ)
For:
Hodges, Clay (Cash Special Utility District)
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For:
Segura, Rodolfo (Texas Rural Water Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Carlton, John (Jonah Water Special Utility District)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Garcia, Buddy (Self)
On:
Kowal, Kendal (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
McKaughan, Mary Alice (Texas Rural Water Association)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
For:
Calderon, Jorge (Self; Webb County)
Galo, John (Webb County)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Medford, Leroy (Webb county)
Romo, Joel (Nueces County)
Yanas, Christine (Methodist Healthcare Ministries)
On:
Reynolds, Joey (Texas Water Development Board)
For:
Cheney, Denise (Texas Real Estate and Probate Institute (T-REP))
On:
Nygren, Kim (TCEQ)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Flippin, Kenneth (CHISPA)
Flippin, Kenneth (Self; Texas chapter of US Green Building Council)
Mccarthy, Ed (Self)
For:
Fuentes, David (Self; Hidalgo county commissioners court and hidalgo county drainagre
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For:
district no. 1)
McCarthy, Ed (Hildalgo county Drainage District No. 1)
Sesin, Raul (Hidalgo county drainage district no. 1)
On:
Pena, Jessica (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Camino, Marie (The Nature Conservancy in Texas)
Flippin, Kenneth (Self; Texas chapter of US Green Building Council)
Fowler, Perry (Self; Texas water infrastructure network)
Garcia, Buddy (Brownsville Public Utilities Board)
Hanes, Rachel (Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance)
Howe, Billy (Texas Farm Bureau)
Juergens, Seth (Texas Realtors)
Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Mazur, Jeremy (Texas 2036)
McKaughan, Mary Alice (Texas Rural Water Association)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Romo, Joel (Nueces County)
Stewart, Scott (American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas)
Yanas, Christine (Methodist Healthcare Ministries)
For:
Hanes, Rachel (Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance)
Smith, Walt (Self)
Against:
Norman, Jr., M. Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Flippin, Kenneth (CHISPA)
Flippin, Kenneth (Self; Texas chapter of US Green Building Council)
Giesinger, Ross (Environmental Defense Action Fund)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Metzger, Luke (Self; Environment Texas)
Nahrgang, Julie (Self; Water Environment Association of Texas)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
Against:
Albright, Steven (AGC of Texas)
Boyda, Mira (Texas land developers association)
Hale, J.D. (Texas Association of Builders)
Lary, Trey (Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Pincoffs, Peter (PMB Capital Investments and PMB Rolling V Land LP)
On:
Pena, Jessica (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Harward, Heather (Texas Water Supply Partners)
Harward, Heather (Upper Trinity Regional Water District)
For:
Andruss, Tim (Texana Groundwater Conservation District)
For:
Galvan, Michael (City of Palm Valley)
Garcia, Oscar (City of Harlingen)
Guerra, Ricardo (City of San Benito)
Jennings, Steve (Self; Cameron County Drain Dist 5)
Sandoval, Fred (City of San Benito)
Sepulveda, Norma (City of Harlingen)
Vela, Rolando (Cameron County Drainage District No. 5)
On:
Nelson, Matt (Texas Water Development Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Flippin, Kenneth (Self; Texas chapter of US Green Building Council)
Garcia, Buddy (Brownsville Public Utilities Board)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone star chapter sierra club)
For:
Galvan, Michael (City of Palm Valley)
Guerra, Ricardo (City of San Benito)
Jennings, Steve (Self; Cameron County Drain Dist 5)
Sandoval, Fred (City of San Benito)
Vela, Rolando (Cameron County Drainage District No. 5)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Garcia, Buddy (Brownsville Public Utilities Board)
Garcia, Oscar (City of Harlingen)
Sepulveda, Norma (City of Harlingen)
On:
Flippin, Kenneth (Self; Texas chapter of US Green Building Council)
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