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.

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

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

• Plan must identify financial needs, funding mechanisms, and financing strategies to assist with cesspool conversions throughout the county.

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