1. 1. If the State Engineer designates a basin as a critical management area pursuant to subsection 7 of NRS 534.110, the State Engineer shall, in the order designating the critical management area, affirm or modify the perennial yield of the designated basin.
2. 2. The State Engineer may, by order, modify the perennial yield of a basin set forth in the order designating the critical management area pursuant to subsection 1 if the State Engineer determines, after consideration of the best available science, that the perennial yield of the basin is different from the perennial yield set forth in such order.
3. 3. The State Engineer shall, before reviewing the results of a groundwater management plan pursuant to subsection 8 of NRS 534.037, review the perennial yield of the basin set forth in the order pursuant to subsection 1 and may modify the perennial yield of the basin pursuant to subsection 2 if the State Engineer determines the perennial yield has changed.

(Added to NRS by 2023, 842)