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HOUSE BILL NO. 543

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H0543..............................................by ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
DOMESTIC WATER - Amends existing law to require persons or corporations
maintaining water plants and systems which supply domestic water to give
notice within seventy-two hours to consumers when there is a variation from
the standards established for safe consumption of water.

01/29    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/30    Rpt prt - to Env Aff

Bill Text

H0543


                                                                        
 ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
Fifty-fourth Legislature                 Second Regular Session - 1998
                                                                        

                             IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 543

                            BY ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

 1                                        AN ACT
 2    RELATING TO DOMESTIC WATER SYSTEMS; AMENDING SECTION 37-2102, IDAHO  CODE,  TO
 3        PROVIDE  A TIME LIMIT WITHIN WHICH NOTICE MUST BE GIVEN BY PERSONS OR COR-
 4        PORATIONS MAINTAINING WATER PLANTS AND SYSTEMS TO CONSUMERS OF  THE  WATER
 5        WHEN THERE IS A VARIATION FROM THE STANDARDS ESTABLISHED FOR SAFE CONSUMP-
 6        TION OF THE WATER.

 7    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

 8        SECTION  1.  That  Section 37-2102, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 9    amended to read as follows:

10        37-2102.  DOMESTIC WATER TO BE PROTECTED. Any person or persons,  corpora-
11    tion or corporations, or officers of a municipality, owning or maintaining any
12    plant  or  system for the supply to the inhabitants of this state, or any part
13    thereof, of water for domestic purposes shall protect the  same  and  keep  it
14    free from all impurities and all other foreign substances which tend to injure
15    the health of the ultimate consumers of such water, whether such impurities or
16    foreign  substances  are chemical or bacterial. It shall be the duty of any of
17    the persons or corporations owning or maintaining  such  a  plant  to  provide
18    notices   within seventy-two (72) hours  to those persons consuming
19    such water of any variations from the  standards  established  by  the  United
20    States  environmental  protection  agency.  The  standards for protection from
21    impurities and the standards for chemical and bacterial purity in the state of
22    Idaho shall be promulgated as rules by the state board of health  and  welfare
23    and  shall  be consistent with this section of the drinking water standards of
24    the United States environmental protection agency, which standards  are  suit-
25    able  for  use  in evaluating the quality and safety of water and water supply
26    systems. The director of the department of health and welfare may in his  dis-
27    cretion  issue  reports  and  post  public signs indicating noncompliance with
28    these standards.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

    





                          STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                                 RS07635
                                    
    
    This purpose of this legislation is to amend Section 37-2102 
    of the Idaho Code to provide that persons or corporations 
    maintaining water plants and systems must give 72 hours 
    notice to consumers of the water when there is a variation 
    from the standards established for safe consumption of the 
    water.
    
                              FISCAL IMPACT
    
    None.
    
    CONTACT: Representative 
    Meyer Phone: 332-1000
    
    STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL IMPACT
    
    Bill No. H 543