Revision: Nov. 22, 2023, 9 a.m.
2024 SESSION
24-2131.1
10/08
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT prohibiting the private ownership of landfills.
SPONSORS: [sponsors]
COMMITTEE: [committee]
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits new solid waste landfill permits in the state for facilities owned by any person other than the state of New Hampshire or a political subdivision thereof.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2131.1
10/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT prohibiting the private ownership of landfills.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Solid Waste Management; Limitation on Landfill Ownership. Amend RSA 149-M by inserting after section 10 the following new section:
149-M:10-a Limitation on Ownership of Landfill Facilities.
I. After the effective date of this section, no new landfill permits in the state shall be granted for facilities owned by any person other than the state of New Hampshire or a political subdivision thereof.
II. Any landfill owned by the state shall be contracted for management and operations by a private operator. Any landfill owned by a political subdivision may be contracted for management and operations by a private operator.
III. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit continued ownership and the expansion or modification of any landfill facilities on any site on which, as of December 1, 2023, a RCRA Subtitle D landfill exists that has been fully permitted and that is actively accepting waste. For the purposes of this section, the term “site” shall mean a single parcel or adjacent parcels, owned in its entirety by a landfill operator or its affiliates as of December 1, 2023, including a site where one or more public utility easements traverse the site; perennial water bodies traversing a footprint shall still be monitored in accordance with or exceeding United States Environmental Protection Agency regulations and guidelines.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.