Bill Text - SB79 (2020)

Relative to required reporting on waste reduction.


Revision: Jan. 17, 2019, 5:21 p.m.

SB 79  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-1085

08/06

 

SENATE BILL 79

 

AN ACT relative to required reporting on waste reduction.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Feltes, Dist 15

 

COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires towns to report certain information to the department of environmental services relative to solid waste reduction.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-1085

08/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to required reporting on waste reduction.

 

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

 

1  New Section; State Waste Reduction Goal; Town Annual Reporting.  Amend RSA 149-M by inserting after section 23 the following new section:

149-M:23-a  Minimum Plan Requirements; Town Annual Reporting.  

I.  In furtherance of the solid waste management planning requirements of RSA 149-M:23, all towns shall annually report to the department no later than November 1 whether and to what extent the town has met the state’s goal of achieving a 40 percent minimum weight diversion of solid waste away from landfilling or incineration on a per capita basis, as set forth in RSA 149-M:2.  Each annual report shall include:

(a)  On a per capita basis, the weight of all municipal solid waste collected by the town from its residents during the 12 months prior to the report.

(b)  On a per capita basis, the weight of municipal solid waste generated by residents diverted to recycling, composting, and reuse during the 12 months prior to the report.

(c)  On a per capita basis, the weight of municipal solid waste collected for recycling that was sent to a landfill or incinerator during the 12 months prior to the report.

(d)  The data contained in subparagraphs (a) through (c) for every previous annual report to enable year-to-year comparisons and trends.

(e)  A description of programs including Pay-As-You-Throw programs that the town has implemented or is in the process of developing to achieve source reduction, recycling, reuse, and composting.  In describing recycling programs in particular, towns shall specify whether:

(1)  The town is implementing single-stream or multi-stream recycling;

(2)  The town is paying or being paid to have materials taken to be recycled; and

(3)  The town is sending materials collected for recycling to a landfill or incinerator.

II.  The first annual report shall be filed no later than November 1, 2019.  For the first annual report, if all data required in paragraph I is not available for any or some of the preceding 12 months, towns shall provide any data that is available and make good faith estimates for the preceding 12 months.  

III.  Towns that are part of a solid waste management district may, at their discretion, rely on the district to provide the town’s annual report, provided such report provides the data required by paragraph I for the town.  

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