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IN SB0417
Bill
Status
1/30/2018
Primary Sponsor
Blake Doriot
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AI Summary
SB 417 Summary
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Natural Resources Commission and State Board of Health must adopt joint rules establishing a minimum distance between residential septic systems and water well drilling locations, along with other requirements to prevent well water contamination.
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Water well drillers who violate the septic system distance rules may receive a verbal or written reprimand from the director for a first violation.
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A second or subsequent violation of the septic system distance rules after a reprimand constitutes a Class B infraction.
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The director may revoke a water well driller's license after a third violation (following a prior reprimand and Class B infraction conviction).
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Effective July 1, 2018; applies to wells drilled after December 31, 1987.
Legislative Description
Distance between water well and septic system. Requires the natural resources commission and the state board of health to adopt joint rules establishing a minimum distance that must exist between a residential septic system and the location in which a water well is drilled. Provides that the holder of a water well driller's license may be reprimanded by the director of the department of natural resources (director) for a first violation of these rules, that the holder of a water well driller's license who commits a second or subsequent violation of these rules commits a Class B infraction, and that
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
2/6/2018