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<br />(i) Priority Category 1 -- groundwater withdrawal rights orders in the <br />amount of the difference between the RWRD participant's EAA <br />initial or regular permit and the participant's historical maximum <br />annual withdrawal as reflected in the Texas Water Development <br />Board ("TWDB") or equivalent pumping records; <br /> <br />(ii) Priority Category 2 -- groundwater withdrawal rights orders <br />necessary to meet deficits resulting from RWRDG participants' <br />conformance to critical management period restrictions established <br />by law, ordinance or regulation; and <br /> <br />(iii) Priority Category 3 -- all other groundwater withdrawal rights <br />orders. <br /> <br />No RWRDG participant shall be allocated any groundwater withdrawal rights in any <br />priority category if there are any pending orders by any other R WRDG participant for <br />groundwater withdrawal rights in any higher priority category in the same groundwater <br />withdrawal rights acquisition strategy category. <br /> <br />Section 13. Registration of Transferred Edwards Aquifer Groundwater Withdrawal <br />Rights <br /> <br />Agent shall make whatever filings are necessary to perfect or record such transfers, <br />exclusive of filings with the Edwards Aquifer Authority. Administrator shall make <br />whatever filings with the Edwards Aquifer Authority necessary to transfer acquired <br />Edwards Aquifer groundwater rights from the seller/lessor to the Administrator. <br />Administrator shall also make whatever filings with the Edwards Aquifer Authority <br />necessary to transfer acquired Groundwater withdrawal rights from the Administrator to <br />individual R WRDG participants. It shall be the responsibility of the Administrator to <br />notify the Edwards Aquifer Authority of the transfer of any Edwards Aquifer <br />groundwater rights through the R WRDG, to perfect the transfer of those rights with the <br />Edwards Aquifer Authority, and to pay any transfer fees required by the Edwards Aquifer <br />Authority. <br /> <br />Section 14. Deposits for Edwards Aquifer Groundwater Withdrawal Rights Orders <br /> <br />Administrator shall collect a deposit in the amount of ten (10) percent of the estimated <br />total value of an individual RWRDG participant's total semiannual groundwater <br />withdrawal rights orders based on the target price established by the Management <br />Council for each of the groundwater acquisition strategy categories established herein. <br />Administrator shall place all deposits in an earmarked interest bearing account with <br />interest transferring to the operating fund for the RWRDG. No RWRDG participant shall <br />be entitled to any groundwater withdrawal rights acquired by the R WRDG unless the <br />participant has made a prior transfer of the requisite monies to the Administrator. <br />Deposits made by RWRDG participants which withdraw pursuant to Section 2.3 of the <br /> <br />\ \COSER VER\DAT A \LEGWP\PBB\ACQUISIThopes.j99.doc 6 <br />