Bill Text: AZ HB2321 | 2011 | Fiftieth Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water quality; technical correction

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - Introduced [HB2321 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2011-HB2321-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: water quality; technical correction

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fiftieth Legislature

First Regular Session

2011

 

 

HB 2321

 

Introduced by

Representative Jones

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 49-286, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the environment.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 49-286, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE49-286.  Mitigation of nonhazardous releases

A.  If the director determines that a drinking water source is being or is about to be rendered unusable without treatment as a drinking water source by a non-hazardous nonhazardous substance that was disposed before the effective date of this chapter August 13, 1986 by a person that would be a responsible party under section 49‑283 if the substance were a hazardous substance, the director may order that person to perform one or more of the following mitigation measures:

1.  Providing an alternative water supply.

2.  Mixing or blending if economically practicable.

3.  Economically and technically practicable treatment before ingesting the water.

4.  Such other mutually agreeable mitigation measures as are necessary to achieve the purposes of this section.

B.  The director's selection of mitigation measures shall balance the short-term and long-term public benefits of mitigation with the cost of each alternative measure.  The director may only require the least costly alternative if more than one alternative may render water usable as a drinking water source.

C.  A mitigation order issued under this section is enforceable under sections 49‑261 and 49‑264. END_STATUTE