Bill Text: IA HF592 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act requiring an environmental impact assessment prior to the granting of a permit to construct, maintain, or operate a hazardous liquid pipeline or underground storage facility.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-11 - Introduced, referred to Commerce. H.J. 545. [HF592 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF592-Introduced.html

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House File 592 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  KELLEY

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring an environmental impact assessment prior to
  2    the granting of a permit to construct, maintain, or operate
  3    a hazardous liquid pipeline or underground storage facility.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 479B.5, Code 2015, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  10.  An assessment of the environmental
  1  4 impact estimated to result from the construction, maintenance,
  1  5 and operation of the pipeline or underground storage facility.
  1  6 The assessment shall be prepared or conducted by a third
  1  7 party contracted with by the applicant and identified by the
  1  8 applicant in the petition.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  Section 479B.9, Code 2015, is amended to read as
  1 10 follows:
  1 11    479B.9  Final order == condition conditions.
  1 12    1.  The board may grant a permit in whole or in part upon
  1 13 terms, conditions, and restrictions as to location and route as
  1 14 it determines to be just and proper.
  1 15    2.  A permit shall not be granted to a pipeline company
  1 16 unless the board determines that the proposed services will
  1 17 promote the public convenience and necessity, and unless the
  1 18 environmental impact assessment submitted pursuant to section
  1 19 479B.5, subsection 10, estimates that the environmental impact
  1 20 resulting from constructing, maintaining, and operating the
  1 21 pipeline or underground storage facility will be minimal.
  1 22    Sec. 3.  Section 479B.10, Code 2015, is amended to read as
  1 23 follows:
  1 24    479B.10  Costs and fees.
  1 25    The applicant shall pay all costs of the informational
  1 26 meetings, environmental impact assessment, hearing, and
  1 27 necessary preliminary investigation including the cost
  1 28 of publishing notice of hearing, and shall pay the actual
  1 29 unrecovered costs directly attributable to inspections
  1 30 conducted by the board.
  1 31                           EXPLANATION
  1 32 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 33 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 34    This bill requires an applicant for a permit for the
  1 35 construction, maintenance, and operation of a hazardous
  2  1 liquid pipeline or underground storage facility to submit an
  2  2 assessment of the resulting environmental impact.  The bill
  2  3 provides that the assessment shall be prepared or conducted by
  2  4 a third party contracted with by the applicant and identified
  2  5 by the applicant in the petition for a permit.  The bill
  2  6 provides that a permit shall not be granted by the Iowa
  2  7 utilities board unless the environmental impact is estimated to
  2  8 be minimal.  The bill requires that the applicant pay the costs
  2  9 associated with conducting the assessment.
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