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IN SB0404
Bill
AI Summary
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Requires satellite manure storage structure applications to include disclosure statements for each "responsible party" (applicants and officers/directors/senior management of applicant entities) who have faced allegations of material environmental law violations presenting substantial endangerment to human health or the environment.
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Disclosure statements must provide the responsible party's name, business address, experience managing satellite manure storage structures, and details of all pending and settled enforcement actions (administrative, civil, or criminal) involving material environmental violations in the United States and foreign countries within the past five years.
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Requires disclosure of denied environmental permit applications and revoked environmental permits held by the responsible party, with statements executed under oath and subject to perjury penalties under IC 35-44.1-2-1.
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Applies to allegations by state, federal, or foreign officials of acts or omissions constituting material violations of state, federal, or foreign environmental law, provided the violation presented substantial endangerment to human health or the environment.
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Effective July 1, 2015; authorizes the Department of Environmental Management to investigate and verify information in submitted disclosure statements.
Legislative Description
Manure structure approval disclosure requirements. Provides that an application to the department of environmental management for approval of the construction or expansion of a satellite manure storage structure must include a disclosure statement providing certain information about each "responsible party" (each individual who is an applicant or an officer, director, or senior management official of an entity that is an applicant) about whom there has been an allegation of an act or omission constituting a material violation of state, federal, or foreign environmental law that presented a substantial endangerment to human health or the environment.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
1/12/2015