Revision: March 24, 2009, midnight
HB 314-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
06/05
HOUSE BILL 314-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to municipalities contracting for impact studies for large groundwater withdrawals.
SPONSORS: Rep. M. Allen, Rock 11; Rep. DiFruscia, Rock 4; Rep. Major, Rock 8; Rep. Rodeschin, Sull 2; Rep. Sedensky, Rock 8
COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development
This bill permits individuals and municipalities to submit impact studies for large groundwater withdrawals within 60 days of notification by the department of environmental services that an application for such withdrawal has been filed.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0496
06/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT relative to municipalities contracting for impact studies for large groundwater withdrawals.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Impact Statements. Amend RSA 485-C:21, II to read as follows:
II. Applications for approval of water withdrawals of 57,600 gallons or more per day shall be filed with the department on a form approved by the department. A preliminary report submitted by a public water system pursuant to department rules shall be an application for purposes of this section. Upon receipt of such application the department shall notify the municipality and the applicant that they shall have 60 days from the date the application was filed to submit an impact statement, at the applicant’s expense, for an area not to exceed a one-mile radius from the location of the proposed withdrawal. If such impact study is not submitted within 60 days, the department may proceed with a public hearing under paragraph III and the municipality and the applicant shall forfeit any right to submit such statement. Copies of the application and any subsequent materials submitted to the department shall be forwarded by certified mail by the applicant to the governing bodies of each municipality and each supplier of water within the potential impact area of the proposed withdrawal as defined in RSA 485-C:21, V-e. The department shall provide the governing body of each municipality with copies of any mailed correspondence sent to the applicant. The department shall provide the applicant with copies of any mailed correspondence sent to or received from the governing body of a municipality.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.