Bill Text - HB485 (2018)

(New Title) relative to standards for emerging contaminants in drinking water, and relative to standards for perfluorochemicals in drinking water, ambient groundwater, and surface water.


Revision: Jan. 27, 2017, 8:51 a.m.

HB 485 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0286

08/04

 

HOUSE BILL 485

 

AN ACT relative to standards for emerging contaminants in drinking water.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Messmer, Rock. 24; Rep. Bean, Rock. 21; Rep. Malloy, Rock. 23; Rep. T. Le, Rock. 31; Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Rep. Berrien, Rock. 18; Rep. P. Gordon, Rock. 29; Rep. H. Marsh, Rock. 22; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Innis, Dist 24; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18

 

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the department of environmental services to use exposure scenarios in children and other vulnerable populations to determine criteria for emerging contaminants in drinking water.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0286

08/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to standards for emerging contaminants in drinking water.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Testing for Contaminants in Drinking Water.  Amend RSA 485:3 by inserting after paragraph XIV the following new paragraph:

XV.  The commissioner shall adopt rules relative to developing criteria for emerging contaminants in drinking water that focus on the most conservative approach to exposure for children and other vulnerable populations to determine emerging contaminant criteria in drinking water.  The commissioner shall re-evaluate emerging contaminant criteria adopted on an annual basis to include new science and exposure scenarios.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.