House of Representatives

HB 2205

environment; hazardous waste site; notice

Sponsors: Rep. Gullett

DP	Committee on Environment
W/D	Committee on Energy, Utilities & Technology
x	Caucus and COW
	As Passed the House

HB 2205 requires that political subdivisions give additional notice for any public hearing regarding a hazardous waste site.

History

49-941 states that any agency or political subdivision which is required to select or permit a possible permanent site for any facility designed to permanently store, treat or dispose of any hazardous substance shall send notice to property owners in the following areas:

· Property owners outside the municipal corporate boundary that are within a three mile radius to the proposed site.

· If the three-mile radius of the proposed site intersects a municipal corporate boundary, property owners inside the municipal corporate boundary within three hundred feet of the outer boundary of the proposed site are to be notified, if the proposed site is in an unincorporated area.

· Property owners within a three hundred foot radius of the outer boundaries of the proposed site if the proposed site is in an incorporated area.

Provisions

· The public notification for a hearing in the area of the proposed hazardous waste site is increased from two weeks to four weeks.

· The bill would require a political subdivision to post on their webpage the hearing time and location four weeks before the hearing.

HB 2205 passed the Environment Committee unamended.

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44th Legislature

Second Regular Session 2 March 1, 2001

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