SB 246 – AS INTRODUCED
2007 SESSION
06/10
SENATE BILL 246
AN ACT relative to a temporary moratorium on the issuance of large groundwater withdrawal permits and on large groundwater withdrawals from bedrock aquifers if withdrawal has not commenced.
SPONSORS: Sen. Barnes, Dist 17; Sen. Hassan, Dist 23; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 24
COMMITTEE: Energy, Environment and Economic Development
This bill places a moratorium on the issuance of large groundwater withdrawal permits and on large groundwater withdrawals from bedrock aquifers if the withdrawal has not commenced, until the commission to study issues relative to groundwater withdrawals issues its final report. Permits for public water supply needs and agricultural needs are exempt from this moratorium.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-1305
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to a temporary moratorium on the issuance of large groundwater withdrawal permits and on large groundwater withdrawals from bedrock aquifers if withdrawal has not commenced.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Moratorium on the Issue of New Large Groundwater Withdrawal Permits from Bedrock Aquifers. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, there is hereby established a moratorium on the issuance of large groundwater withdrawal permits, which shall be in effect from the effective date of this act until 90 days after the date the commission to study issues relative to groundwater withdrawals, established by 2003, 305 and amended by 2005, 287, issues its final report.
2 Moratorium on Large Groundwater Withdrawals from Bedrock Aquifers. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, there is hereby established a moratorium on large groundwater withdrawals from bedrock aquifers, which shall apply to any holder of a large groundwater withdrawal permit who has not yet begun to withdraw water under the permit. The moratorium shall be in effect from the effective date of this act until 90 days after the date the commission to study issues relative to groundwater withdrawals, established by 2003, 305 and amended by 2005, 287, issues its final report.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.