Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF0423

2E Relating to environment

ARTICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Authorizing
clean water fund money to be used to leverage federal funds through formal
project partnership agreements execution; establishing certain wastewater
laboratory certification requirements; modifying pollution control agency (PCA),
commissioner of agriculture, emergency response commission, and municipal
landfill abatement reporting requirements; modifying petroleum tank fund
property acquisition expenditure requirements; providing for disposition of
property acquired for corrective action; modifying PCA storage tank affidavit
requirements; repealing obsolete state agency rules

ARTICLE 2 - SANITARY
DISTRICTS

Authorizing the restructuring of sanitary districts; establishing
the creation of sanitary districts as special taxing districts; defining certain
terms; specifying applicability to current sanitary districts; establishing
certain procedures and authority of the sanitary districts; providing for the
filing of maps in sanitary district proceedings; authorizing sanitary district
annexation, detachment and dissolution under certain circumstances, specifying
proceedings for sanitary district annexation, detachment and dissolution
authorizing the utilization of a joint petition under certain circumstances,
requiring the administrative law judge to publish notice of intent for sanitary
district annexation, detachment or dissolution and designate a hearing time and
place, requiring the administrative law judge to consider relevant factors when
arriving at an decision, specifying role of administrative law judge in denying
and authorizing an annexation, detachment or dissolution establishing certain
filing requirements; requiring a joint public informational meeting of local
government creation, annexation, detachment or dissolution; authorizing the
pollution control agency to annex a sanitary district under certain
circumstances; specifying petitioner is responsible for certain expenses;
establishing certain time limits for orders and specifying appeals process and
the utilization of uniform procedures; establishing a sanitary district board of
managers, specifying board composition, terms, election of board, specifying the
designation of a central governing body under certain circumstances, permitting
nominations for board members to be made by petitions, specifying the procedure
when electing a single government body and multiple governing bodies, specifying
the filling of vacancies, prescribing the certification of the election and
temporary chair designation; establishing sanitation board organization and
procedures; specifying the district status as a public corporation and a
governmental subdivision and the district powers, authorizing certain specific
powers such as pollution prevention, sewage disposal, garbage and refuse
disposal, water supply procurement, and road repair; specifying provisions
relating to district facilities and projects with one or more governmental
subdivisions; establishing district control and regulation of sanitary
facilities; authorizing the district to develop programs, surveys, studies and
investigations; authorizing district to have general and statutory powers
awarded to cities; establishing powers of the district board; authorizing the
district board to levy taxes, assessments and service charges; authorizing the
district board to have borrowing and bond issuance powers; requiring the deposit
of all tax levies, assessments and other charges into the district treasury;
authorizing ordinances authorized by the district to supersede other ordinances
of a related governmental unit, prohibiting the duplication of facilities with
any other governmental subdivision or public agency except upon approval by the
district board; specifying the creation of the sanitary districts do not
supersede the authority of the pollution control agency (PCA) or the department
of health; specifying certain powers of the administrative law judge in relation
to the sanitary districts; repealing obsolete provisions relating to sanitary
districts
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