2005 Senate Bill 876

Require DEQ review municipal water projects

Introduced in the Senate

Nov. 9, 2005

Introduced by Sen. Patricia Birkholz (R-24)

To require the Department of Environmental Quality to evaluate new public water systems with a capacity greater than 2 million gallons per day for potential averse natural resource impacts and prohibit them unless there is no alternative water source, in which case the DEQ would impose conditions.

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs