HB 1374-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
06/10
HOUSE BILL 1374-FN
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
This bill requires the state to pay the costs of closing or remediating a landfill when the security required by the department of environmental services is inadequate to cover the costs, or the permitee fails to perform its obligations.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter
removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-2305
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT requiring the department of environmental services to bear certain clean-up costs.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; State Indemnification. Amend RSA 149-M:9 by inserting after paragraph X the following new paragraph:
X-a In the event the security guaranteeing the cost of facility closure is inadequate or the permitee fails to perform its obligations the state shall indemnify the municipality against costs associated with the closure or remediation of environmental harm occasioned by the solid waste facility and shall pay the costs of any such closure or remedial action.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
01-2305
9/19/01
HB 1374-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT requiring the department of environmental services to bear certain clean-up costs.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from an agency.