CHAPTER 169
HB 318 – FINAL VERSION
05Apr2007… 0605h
2007 SESSION
08/03
HOUSE BILL 318
COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development
This bill limits the withdrawal of groundwater to the cumulative amount of 57,600 gallons from a single property or place of business, regardless of the number of wells on that property.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
05Apr2007… 0605h
07-0802
08/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to large groundwater withdrawals.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
169:1 Approval for Large Groundwater Withdrawals. Amend RSA 485-C:21, I to read as follows:
I. No person may withdraw more than a total of 57,600 gallons [or more] of water in any 24-hour period from [a well sited after the effective date of this section] a well or wells sited at a single property or place of business after the effective date of this section, regardless of the number of wells sited on the property or business, without the prior approval of the department.
169:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 18, 2007
Effective: August 17, 2007