HB 587 Summary

• Requires each county mayor to submit a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan report to the legislature no later than 20 days before the 2024 regular session convening.

• Report must identify planned connections to centralized public and private treatment systems, locations requiring individual treatment systems, and potential cluster treatment system locations.

• Report must assess individual treatment system needs for homes with cesspools and determine if infrastructure capacity exists to convert all cesspools by January 1, 2050.

• Report must include financial needs, funding mechanisms, and financing strategies to assist with cesspool conversions in each county.

• Acknowledges that approximately 83,000 cesspools exist statewide with conversion costs estimated between $880 million and $5.3 billion, requiring coordinated long-term planning across counties and governmental entities.