Water conservation and management plan requirements for the groundwater withdrawl regulations should also incorporate provisions to 1) attempt to preserve those NRCS hydrologic soil group A and B soils which serve as recharge areas within the groundwater management areas; and 2) attempt to preserve riparian buffers along perenial water bodies (streams, lakes, etc.) which are present in groundwater management areas and which also contribute to groundwater recharge.  HSG A and B soil group locations are well documented by federal, state and location GIS toos, County Soil Surveys and the NRCS web soil survey tool, community comprehensive plans, and master plans or site specific development plans which require erosion and sediment control, stormwater management, and/or pollution prevention plans. Reducing withdrawls and requiring water conservation and management plans to lessen demand is great, but if we also destroy the interaction/interface zones where precipitation tries to infiltrate into soils and shallow or deep groundwater zones all across the Commonwealth, then we are also concurrently destroying the feeder systems to our shallow or deeper groundwater aquifers.  One way to accomplish this is to expand Resource Management Area and Resource Protection Area type requirements similar to the Tidewater Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area program to the rest of the state. These types of CBPA protections are well documented to serve not only for reduction in nonpoint source pollution from surface water (runoff) sources but also for groundwater recharge purposes. The mass scale of implementation would have impact to maintain groundwater recharge (sources) instead of a slow strangling off of the contributing source. Thank you.