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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