Revision: Jan. 11, 2010, midnight
CHAPTER 278
HB 319 – FINAL VERSION
27Mar2007… 0566h
05/31/07 1787s
2007 SESSION
08/03
HOUSE BILL 319
AN ACT relative to permits for projects funded through the Emergency Watershed Protection Program.
COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development
This bill allows the department of environmental services to issue permits for certain necessary projects.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
27Mar2007… 0566h
05/31/07 1787s
07-0803
08/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to permits for projects funded through the Emergency Watershed Protection Program.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
278:1 New Paragraph; Fill and Dredge in Wetlands; Administrative Provisions. Amend RSA 482-A:11 by inserting after paragraph IX the following new paragraph:
X. The department shall have the authority to grant permits, in accordance with the rules adopted under RSA 482-A:11, VI for expedited application and permitting, for any projects funded through the Emergency Watershed Protection Program of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, when such projects are necessary to safeguard lives and property from floods and the products of erosion when a natural disaster is causing or has caused a sudden impairment of the watershed.
278:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 3, 2007
Effective: September 1, 2007