No. CS/CS/SB 1474
Filed under Environment & Water.
Biosolids Management; Prohibiting the Department of Environmental Protection from issuing or renewing a permit for certain biosolids land application sites if there is a permitted wastewater treatment facility that accepts septage for higher levels of treatment and which meets specified requirements, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Environmental Protection can no longer issue or renew a permit to spread septage as Class B biosolids on land if a government-run wastewater plant that treats septage to a higher standard sits within 30 miles.
That alternative plant only counts as blocking the permit if it is actually available: not shut down, not repurposed for something else, and not already full.
AIThe department may not issue or renew a permit for land application of septage as Class B biosolids if a permitted wastewater treatment facility that treats septage to a higher standard sits less than 30 miles away and is owned or operated by a federal, state, or local government body.
AIThe nearby government facility only counts against a new land-application permit if it is not defunct, is not being used for some other purpose, and still has capacity to accept the septage; an unavailable facility does not block the permit.