ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

House: NREW DPA/SE 10-0-0-0

HB 2106: ~~technical correction; supplemental environmental project~~

S/E title: establishment; advanced water purification permit

Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19

Caucus & COW

Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment to HB 2106

Overview

Establishes the Advanced Water Purification Permit Program (Program).

History

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ)'s Water Quality Division preserves and bolsters the environment and public health through ensuring healthy drinking water if provided by public water systems. This is done via:

1) regulation of the treatment and discharge of wastewater;

2) controlling current and future sources of surface and groundwater pollution;

3) monitoring and assessing the quality of surface and groundwater; and

4) issuing permits to protect Arizona water from sources of pollution (ADEQ).

Provisions

1. Mandates the Director of ADEQ to establish by rule permit fees to administer an Advanced Water Purification Permit Program. (Sec. 3)

2. Requires monies from the program be deposited into the Water Quality Fee Fund. (Sec. 3)

3. Requires the rules to:

a) establish permitting standards and application processes; and

b) mandate an applicant engage in source control of pollutants. (Sec. 3)

4. Prohibits a person from introducing a pollutant into a sewage collection system that interferes with the operation of advanced water treatment facilities or that endangers public health. (Sec. 3)

5. Defines:

a) sewage collection system;

b) source control; and

c) treated wastewater. (Sec. 3)

6. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1 and 2)

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