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SB 1468 Onsite treatment works; provides specific requirements therefor designed by professional engineer.

Introduced by: Frederick M. Quayle | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Department of Health; onsite treatment works; designs by engineers.  Requires the Department of Health to ensure that onsite treatment works designs by professional engineers meet or exceed the discharge standards for systems otherwise permitted pursuant to the Department's regulations and policies. This bill also requires the Board of Health to adopt, within 280 days, regulations establishing performance requirements and horizontal setbacks necessary to protect public health and the environment for alternative systems, and provides that such regulations shall include a requirement for comment period of at least 30 days, and shall contain operation and maintenance requirements consistent with the requirements for alternative onsite sewage systems. This bill is identical to HB 2551.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Department of Health; onsite treatment works; designs by engineers.  Requires the Department of Health to ensure that onsite treatment works design by professional engineers meet or exceed the discharge standards for systems otherwise permitted pursuant to the Department's regulations and policies.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Onsite treatment works; designs by engineers. Provides specific requirements for onsite treatment works designed by professional engineers. Allows such designs either to meet the specifications of current requirements for other onsite treatment works or to adhere to the new standards set out in the bill.