Bill Text: MO HB1046 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Changes the laws regarding state park designated swim beaches
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-09 - Referred: Tourism and Natural Resources(H) [HB1046 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB1046-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE MILLER.
4046L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 640.080, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to state park designated swim beaches.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 640.080, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 640.080, to read as follows:
640.080. 1. For Missouri state parks' designated swim beaches, a standard that measures E. coli using the Environmental Protection Agency's Method 1603, or any other equivalent method that measures culturable E. coli, with the geometric mean (GM) of weekly sampling of one hundred ninety colony forming units per one hundred milliliters shall be utilized.
2. If beaches exceed the GM standard established in subsection 1 of this section, the department of natural resources shall post the beach with signs that state "Swimming is Not Recommended".
3. The department reserves the right to close a beach in the event of a documented health risk including things such as but not limited to wastewater bypass, extremely high sampling E. coli values that exceed one thousand two hundred sixty colony forming units per one hundred milliliters, spills of hazardous chemicals, or localized outbreaks of an infectious disease.
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