H0707B0732A07088 AJB:AAS 09/10/20 #90 A07088
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 707
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE ZIMMERMAN
Printer's No. 732
Amend Bill, page 1, line 5, by inserting after "definitions"
and for variances and exemptions
Amend Bill, page 2, by inserting between lines 18 and 19
Section 2. Section 6(b) and (c) of the act are amended to
read:
Section 6. Variances and exemptions.
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(b) Variances from treatment technique requirements.--The
department [may] shall authorize variances from a treatment
technique required under the drinking water standards if the
public water system applying for the variance demonstrates to
the satisfaction of the department that the drinking water
quality is in accordance with the current surface water
treatment rules established by the United States environmental
protection agency or the treatment technique is not necessary to
protect the health of persons because of the nature of the raw
water sources of the system.
(c) Department may authorize exemptions.--The department may
exempt any public water system from any requirement of an
applicable drinking water standard upon finding that:
(1) due to compelling factors, the public water system
is unable to comply with such requirements;
(2) the public water system was in operation on the
effective date of such requirement or, for a system that was
not in operation by that date, only if no reasonable
alternative source of drinking water is available to such a
new system; and
(3) the granting of the exemption will not result in an
unreasonable risk to health as assessed through the
recognition of no recorded illnesses derived from microbial
contaminants present in the public water system and no
evidence of microbial contaminants in the public water
system.
All exemptions granted with respect to a contaminant level or
treatment technique prescribed by the Federal regulation shall
expire no later than the dates prescribed in the Federal act.
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Amend Bill, page 2, line 19, by striking out "2" and
inserting
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