Bill Text: NH HB244 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the permissible level of methyl tertiary butyl ether in drinking water.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted DV 242-32; House Journal 26, PG. 1270 [HB244 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2015-HB244-Introduced.html

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HB 244-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED

2015 SESSION

15-0197

06/03

HOUSE BILL 244-LOCAL

AN ACT relative to the permissible level of methyl tertiary butyl ether in drinking water.

SPONSORS: Rep. McConnell, Ches 12; Rep. Rappaport, Coos 1; Rep. B. Tilton, Ches 12

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

ANALYSIS

This bill sets the permissible level of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in drinking water at 0 parts per billion.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15-0197

06/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen

AN ACT relative to the permissible level of methyl tertiary butyl ether in drinking water.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE); Drinking Water Standards. RSA 485:16-a is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

485:16-a Drinking Water Standards. No public water system shall deliver water with greater than 0 parts per billion methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE).

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.