Oklahoma Water Laws and Regulations
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30 – 4:15 pm
Understanding Oklahoma Groundwater Rights
S. Gibson
Ownership of groundwater
Regulation of groundwater rights
Obtaining groundwater rights
Application and permitting process
Current issues in groundwater rights
Understanding Oklahoma Surface Water Rights
K. Davis-Maddy
Ownership of surface water
Regulation of surface water rights
Obtaining surface water rights
Application and permitting process
Amending surface water rights
Current issues in surface water rights
Healthy Water, Healthy Soil, Healthy People – How Voluntary Programs are Impacting the Environment
J. Fleming
Irrigation
Impact on groundwater
Water quality and agricultural runoff
Oklahoma’s Small Watershed Flood Control Program “Silent Sentinels”
J. Stewart
Introduction to the Small Watershed Program
• Why we have this program, what it does, how it works,and who benefits from it
Different aspects of water, easement, and dam laws and regulations
Discussion on current challenges, court cases, and the futureof the program
Water Utility Regulation
M. Herndon
Types of water utilities
Regulation of utility service areas
Application and permitting process for service areas
Utility construction design standards and approvals
Current issues in utility service area regulation
Credits
Attorneys
7.5 Oklahoma CLE Hours
6.0 Texas CLE Hours
Professional Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Geologists
No-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and is approved for7.5 general Oklahoma CLE hours for attorneys. It qualifies for 6.0 CLE hours for Texas attorneys.
This seminar offers 6.0 PDHs to Oklahoma professional engineers, to whom the subject matter is professionally relevant. Engineers with continuing education requirements in other states will be able to apply the hours from this seminar. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility or contact HalfMoon Education for assistance.
This course offers Oklahoma geologists a non-credit continuing education opportunity.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Kaylee P. Davis-Maddy
Partner and Attorney with Doerner Saunders Daniel & Anderson, LLP, in Oklahoma City, OKMs. Davis-Maddy is a reputable trial lawyer in the commercial, healthcare, environmental and water law sectors. Although primarily a litigator, she practice is full service—assisting her clients and their needs that span the employment, commercial, real property, regulatory and administrative fields. Ms. Davis-Maddy healthcare practice includes advising physicians and other licensed providers regarding corporate, administrative and litigation issues, while her environmental practice focuses on interacting with state and federal agencies to provide her clients with the outcomes they desire. Most recently, She has obtained favorable results for clients in state and federal licensure and certification actions, including with the Department of Environmental Quality and Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision. Ms. Davis-Maddy is an accomplished water attorney, regularly assisting clients in asserting, obtaining and protecting their water rights in court or at state agencies. Her clients include small and large municipalities, corporations, landowners and family farmers.
Jeri Fleming
Oklahoma Water Survey, Oklahoma City
Ms. Fleming is the assistant director/outreach and education coordinator for the Oklahoma Water Survey. Previously Ms. Fleming was the environmental programs manager with the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Her responsibilities included working with volunteers in the Blue Thumb Water Quality Education Program and project management. Prior to joining the Commission,Ms. Fleming worked for the Oklahoma Water Resources Research Institute where she was project manager for the Institutes’s role in updating Oklahoma’s Comprehensive Water Plan. She has a degree in Mass Communications from Northeastern State University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law. In addition to her duties for the Commission, Ms. Fleming teaches Applied Environmental Law for the University of Tulsa’s Masters of Jurisprudence program and serves on the boards of Lake McMurtry Friends, Inc. and Friends of Blue Thumb, Inc.
Sara Gibson
Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Oklahoma CityMs. Gibson currently serves as Deputy General Counsel at the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, where her duties include acting as hearing examiner on behalf of the Board. She attended Oklahoma City University, earning a bachelor of science degree in 2001 and a juris doctorate in 2004. Prior to joining the OWRB, Ms. Gibson worked as an attorney for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department.
Janet Stewart
Oklahoma Conservation Commission, Oklahoma City
Ms. Steward is the general counsel for the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Ms. Stewart graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a B.S. degree in Biology/Chemistry and with her Juris Doctor of Law degree in 1994. She is a member of both the Oklahoma and Texas Bars. Following graduation she worked as an assistant city attorney for the City of Dallas, Texas, for four years and then served as the general counsel for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry from October of 1998 to October 2007.