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IN HB1291
Bill
Status
1/16/2018
Primary Sponsor
Ryan Dvorak
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AI Summary
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Eliminates the exception to water pollution prohibitions for fertilizer runoff from fields during storm events when fertilizer was applied in compliance with state chemist rules, effective July 1, 2020.
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Removes the requirement that the Department of Environmental Management commissioner allow mixing zones in Lake Michigan discharge permits when applicants demonstrate no harm to human health or aquatic life.
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Eliminates the provision requiring commissioners to allow mixing zones in Lake Michigan using submerged, high-rate diffuser outfall structures that provide turbulent initial mixing and minimize organism exposure times.
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All amendments apply retroactively to July 1, 2020, with the modified provisions set to expire July 1, 2020.
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Affects Indiana Code sections IC 13-11-2-149 and IC 13-18-4.
Legislative Description
Fertilizer runoff and Lake Michigan discharges. Amends the water pollution control law effective July 1, 2020, to: (1) eliminate an exception to the prohibition against causing water pollution that applies to fertilizer run off from a field in a storm event if the fertilizer was applied to the land in compliance with rules of the state chemist; (2) eliminate a requirement that the commissioner of the department of environmental management allow for a mixing zone in a permit that involves a discharge into Lake Michigan if the permit applicant can demonstrate that the mixing zone will not cause harm to
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
1/16/2018