CHAPTER 287
HB 812 – FINAL VERSION
28Mar2007… 0514h
06/07/07 2100s
2007 SESSION
08/10
HOUSE BILL 812
AN ACT relative to certain exceptions to limits on land application of septage and sludge.
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
This bill permanently exempts certain uses of land application of septage and sludge within certain distances of natural, rural, rural-community, and community rivers.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
28Mar2007… 0514h
06/07/07 2100s
07-0618
08/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to certain exceptions to limits on land application of septage and sludge.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
287:1 Temporary Use Authorization; Time Extended. Amend 1998, 56:6 as amended by 2003, 43:14, 2003, 302:3, and 2005, 141:2 to read as follows:
56:6 Temporary Use Authorization. The septage and sludge land application restrictions contained in RSA 483:9, VI(c), RSA 483:9-a, VII(b), RSA 483:9-aa, VII(b), and RSA 483:9-b, VII(b) shall not apply until [July 1, 2007] January 1, 2012 to any land upon which septage or sludge has been spread in accordance with all applicable rules adopted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New Hampshire department of environmental services, during any portion of the 3-year period prior to January 1, 1998. In addition, there shall be no termination of this restriction exemption for qualifying land that is used for scientific research on septage or sludge. Any continued application of septage and sludge pursuant to this section shall comply with all applicable federal and state laws and any best management practices published by the university of New Hampshire cooperative extension.
287:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
Approved: July 3, 2007
Effective: July 1, 2007