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HB 1028 - Landfills - Providing Notice of Dangerous Releases
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Tracking Level: Support
Sponsor: Werkheiser, Bill 157th
Last Action: 7/1/2016 - Effective Date
House Committee: NR&E
Senate Committee: NR&E
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Staff Analysis of the Legislation

This legislation requires the owner of a municipal solid waste landfill to notify (within 14 days of confirmation by the state Environmental Protection Division) the governing authority of the county or city where the landfill is of any confirmed release from the landfill site of a contaminant that is likely to pose a danger to human health. The landfill owner must also post notice in the legal organ of the county in which the landfill is located.    


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