A water user that transfers surface water pursuant to this article may not replace that water with groundwater unless the groundwater use is either of the following:
- (a) Consistent with a groundwater management plan adopted pursuant to state law for the affected area.
- (b) Approved by the water supplier from whose service area the water is to be transferred and that water supplier, if a groundwater management plan has not been adopted, determines that the transfer will not create, or contribute to, conditions of long-term overdraft in the affected groundwater basin.