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HOUSE BILL NO. 164 – Environmentl Qlty Dept, tech corr

HOUSE BILL NO. 164

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H0164..............................................by ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY - Amends existing law to provide that
the Department of Environmental Quality and the Board of Environmental
Quality shall have the authority to regulate matters relating to
environmental protection; and to provide technical cleanup for Senate Bill
No. 1426 of the 2000 Legislature.
                                                                        
02/07    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/08    Rpt prt - to Env Aff
02/13    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/14    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/16    3rd rdg - PASSED - 66-0-4
      AYES -- Barraclough, Barrett, Bedke, Bell, Bieter, Bolz, Bradford,
      Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase, Clark, Collins, Crow, Cuddy,
      Deal, Denney, Ellis, Ellsworth, Eskridge, Field(13), Field(20),
      Gagner, Gould, Hadley, Hammond, Harwood, Henbest, Higgins, Hornbeck,
      Jaquet, Jones, Kellogg, Kendell, Kunz, Lake, Langford, Loertscher,
      Mader, McKague, Meyer, Montgomery, Mortensen, Moss, Moyle, Pearce,
      Pischner, Pomeroy, Raybould, Ridinger, Roberts, Robison, Sali,
      Schaefer, Sellman, Shepherd, Smith, Smylie, Stevenson, Stone, Swan,
      Tilman, Trail, Wood, Young, Mr. Speaker
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Black, Boe, Marley, Wheeler
    Floor Sponsor -- Barraclough
    Title apvd - to Senate
02/19    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Health/Wel
02/23    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/26    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/16    3rd rdg - PASSED - 34-0-1
      AYES -- Andreason, Branch(Bartlett), Boatright, Brandt, Bunderson,
      Burtenshaw, Cameron, Danielson, Darrington, Davis, Deide, Dunklin,
      Frasure, Geddes, Goedde, Hawkins, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough,
      King-Barrutia, Lee, Lodge, Noh, Richardson, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder,
      Sims, Sorensen, Stegner, Stennett, Thorne, Wheeler, Whitworth
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Williams
    Floor Sponsor -- Stennett
    Title apvd - to House
03/19    To enrol
03/20    Rpt enrol - Sp signed
03/21    Pres signed - to Governor
03/22    Governor signed
         Session Law Chapter 103
         Effective: 07/01/01

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  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-sixth Legislature                  First Regular Session - 2001
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 164
                                                                        
                             BY ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION  9-340F,
  3        IDAHO  CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUAL-
  4        ITY; AMENDING SECTION 9-342A, IDAHO CODE,  TO  PROVIDE  REFERENCE  TO  THE
  5        DEPARTMENT  OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT
  6        OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING  SEC-
  7        TION  18-6015, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVI-
  8        RONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 22-3413, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFER-
  9        ENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO  MAKE  A  TECHNICAL
 10        CORRECTION;  AMENDING SECTIONS 22-4801 AND 22-4802, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
 11        REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTION
 12        22-4902, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMEN-
 13        TAL  QUALITY  AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 22-4903,
 14        IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL  QUAL-
 15        ITY  AND TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO
 16        MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION 22-4905, IDAHO CODE, TO PRO-
 17        VIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;  AMENDING  SEC-
 18        TION  31-4405,  IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCES TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRON-
 19        MENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 36-1905, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE
 20        TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE  TECHNICAL  CORREC-
 21        TIONS;  AMENDING  SECTION 36-2404, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE
 22        DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING THE HEADING  TO  CHAPTER  1,
 23        TITLE  39,  IDAHO  CODE;  AMENDING SECTION 39-104A, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
 24        REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTION
 25        39-166,  IDAHO  CODE, AS ADDED BY SECTION 1, CHAPTER 204, LAWS OF 1996, TO
 26        REDESIGNATE THE SECTION, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVI-
 27        RONMENTAL  QUALITY  AND  TO  MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION
 28        39-167, IDAHO CODE, AS ADDED BY SECTION 2, CHAPTER 204, LAWS OF  1996,  TO
 29        REDESIGNATE  THE  SECTION,  TO  FURTHER DEFINE TERMS AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL
 30        CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-168, IDAHO CODE, AS ADDED BY  SECTION  3,
 31        CHAPTER 204, LAWS OF 1996, TO REDESIGNATE THE SECTION, TO DELETE REFERENCE
 32        TO  PUBLIC  HEALTH DISTRICTS AND TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
 33        ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-169, IDAHO CODE,  AS  ADDED  BY
 34        SECTION 4, CHAPTER 204, LAWS OF 1996, TO REDESIGNATE THE SECTION; AMENDING
 35        SECTION  39-3003,  IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCES TO THE BOARD OF ENVI-
 36        RONMENTAL QUALITY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO  MAKE
 37        TECHNICAL  CORRECTIONS;  AMENDING  SECTION 39-3005, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
 38        REFERENCES TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY  AND  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
 39        ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION
 40        39-3006, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCES TO THE BOARD  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL
 41        QUALITY  AND  TO  MAKE  TECHNICAL  CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTIONS 39-3007,
 42        39-3008, 39-3011, 39-3012 AND 39-3017, IDAHO CODE, TO MAKE TECHNICAL  COR-
 43        RECTIONS;  AMENDING  SECTION  39-3018, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO
 44        THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS;
 45        AMENDING SECTION 39-3019, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF
 46        ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING  SECTION
                                                                        
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  1        39-3026,  IDAHO  CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCES TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL
  2        QUALITY AND THE DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTION
  3        39-3601, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMEN-
  4        TAL QUALITY AND TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
  5        AND  TO  MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-3602, IDAHO CODE,
  6        TO FURTHER DEFINE TERMS AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING  SEC-
  7        TION  39-3613, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVI-
  8        RONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-3617, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFER-
  9        ENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO THE BOARD OF  ENVI-
 10        RONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-3620, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFER-
 11        ENCE  TO  THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORREC-
 12        TIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-3624, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE  TO  THE
 13        DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY  AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS;
 14        AMENDING SECTION 39-3625, IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER  DEFINE  TERMS;  AMENDING
 15        SECTION 39-3626, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRON-
 16        MENTAL  QUALITY AND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE
 17        TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-3627, IDAHO  CODE,  TO  PROVIDE
 18        REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL COR-
 19        RECTIONS;  AMENDING  SECTION  39-3631, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO
 20        THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS;
 21        AMENDING SECTION 39-3632, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF
 22        ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING  SECTION
 23        39-3633,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL
 24        QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-3635, IDAHO
 25        CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY  AND
 26        TO  MAKE  TECHNICAL  CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-3637, IDAHO CODE, TO
 27        PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO THE DEPART-
 28        MENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TO PROVIDE THAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPART-
 29        MENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SHALL MAINTAIN A SITE INVENTORY OF  EXISTING
 30        SEWAGE  DISPOSAL SYSTEMS AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SEC-
 31        TION 39-3638, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF  ENVI-
 32        RONMENTAL  QUALITY  AND  TO  MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION
 33        39-4403, IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER DEFINE TERMS AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORREC-
 34        TIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-4426, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE  TO  THE
 35        DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-4428, IDAHO CODE,
 36        TO  PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING
 37        SECTION 39-4429, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
 38        ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION
 39        39-4431, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMEN-
 40        TAL  QUALITY  AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-5803,
 41        IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER DEFINE TERMS; AMENDING SECTION 39-5805, IDAHO CODE,
 42        TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY  AND  TO
 43        MAKE  TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-5806, IDAHO CODE, TO PRO-
 44        VIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;  AMENDING  SEC-
 45        TION  39-5812, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVI-
 46        RONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-6203, IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER DEFINE
 47        TERMS; AMENDING SECTION 39-6404, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE  TO  THE
 48        DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-6407, IDAHO CODE,
 49        TO  PROVIDE  THAT  A  REPRESENTATIVE  FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
 50        QUALITY SHALL SERVE ON THE REGIONAL CLEAN LAKES TECHNICAL ADVISORY  GROUP;
 51        AMENDING  SECTION  39-6501,  IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER DEFINE TERMS; AMENDING
 52        SECTION 39-6503, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
 53        ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTION 39-6504, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
 54        REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO THE  BOARD  OF
 55        ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION
                                                                        
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  1        39-6506, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE  BOARD  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL
  2        QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-6603, IDAHO
  3        CODE,  TO  PROVIDE  REFERENCE  TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;
  4        AMENDING SECTION 39-6609, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE  DEPART-
  5        MENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE A GRAMMATICAL CORRECTION; AMEND-
  6        ING SECTION 39-7002, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
  7        ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTION 39-7108, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
  8        REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTION
  9        39-7114, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMEN-
 10        TAL  QUALITY AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION 39-7203,
 11        IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER DEFINE TERMS; AMENDING SECTION 39-7401, IDAHO CODE,
 12        TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;  AMENDING
 13        SECTION  39-7402,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
 14        ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION
 15        39-7403, IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER DEFINE TERMS AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORREC-
 16        TIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-7408B, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO  THE
 17        DIRECTOR  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION
 18        39-7602, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMEN-
 19        TAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING  SECTION  39-7902,
 20        IDAHO  CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUAL-
 21        ITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-7903, IDAHO CODE, TO FURTHER DEFINE TERMS AND  TO
 22        MAKE  TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 39-7908, IDAHO CODE, TO PRO-
 23        VIDE REFERENCE TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;
 24        AMENDING SECTION 39-7911, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE  DEPART-
 25        MENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 39-7914, IDAHO CODE, TO
 26        PROVIDE REFERENCE TO RULES OF THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;
 27        AMENDING  SECTION 41-4911, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPART-
 28        MENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS;  AMENDING
 29        SECTION  41-4947,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
 30        ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 42-227,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO  PROVIDE
 31        REFERENCE  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION
 32        42-1503, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMEN-
 33        TAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING  SECTION  42-1711,
 34        IDAHO  CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUAL-
 35        ITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS;  AMENDING  SECTION  42-1734,  IDAHO
 36        CODE,  TO  PROVIDE  REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO
 37        MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 42-1805, IDAHO CODE, TO  PRO-
 38        VIDE  REFERENCE  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO THE
 39        DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE  TECHNICAL
 40        CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 42-3902, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO
 41        THE  BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 42-3910, IDAHO CODE,
 42        TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING  SEC-
 43        TION  46-1019,  IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT
 44        OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SHALL SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE
 45        COMMISSION; AMENDING SECTION 47-1315, IDAHO CODE, TO  PROVIDE  THAT  WATER
 46        USED  IN  MINING  PROCESSES MUST CONFORM TO THE STANDARDS AND RULES OF THE
 47        DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 47-1513, IDAHO CODE,
 48        TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING  SEC-
 49        TION  49-2203, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVI-
 50        RONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 50-1326, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFER-
 51        ENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 50-1327,
 52        IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL  QUAL-
 53        ITY;  AMENDING  SECTION  50-1328,  IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE
 54        BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION;  AMEND-
 55        ING SECTION 50-1329, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
                                                                        
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  1        ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTION 50-1703, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
  2        REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTIONS
  3        55-2014 AND 55-2714, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
  4        ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;  AMENDING  SECTIONS  63-3022C  AND 63-3024B, IDAHO
  5        CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  QUALITY;
  6        AMENDING  SECTION  67-818, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPART-
  7        MENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING SECTION 67-2917,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO
  8        PROVIDE  REFERENCE  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; AMENDING
  9        SECTION 67-5303, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT  DIVISION  ADMINISTRATORS  IN
 10        THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ARE NONCLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES AND TO
 11        MAKE  TECHNICAL  CORRECTIONS; AND AMENDING SECTION 67-7502, IDAHO CODE, TO
 12        PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO MAKE A
 13        TECHNICAL CORRECTION.
                                                                        
 14    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
 15        SECTION 1.  That Section 9-340F, Idaho Code, be, and the  same  is  hereby
 16    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 17        9-340F.  RECORDS  EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE -- DRAFT LEGISLATION AND SUPPORT-
 18    ING MATERIALS, TAX COMMISSION, PETROLEUM CLEAN WATER TRUST FUND. The following
 19    records are exempt from disclosure:
 20        (1)  Records consisting of draft legislation  and  documents  specifically
 21    related to such draft legislation or research requests submitted to the legis-
 22    lative services office by a member of the Idaho legislature for the purpose of
 23    placing  such draft legislation into a form suitable for introduction as offi-
 24    cial proposed legislation of the legislature of the state of Idaho, unless the
 25    individual legislator having submitted or requested such records  or  research
 26    agrees to waive the provisions of confidentiality provided by this subsection.
 27        (2)  All  papers,  physical  and  electronic records and correspondence or
 28    other supporting materials comprising the work papers in the possession of the
 29    legislative services office or the director of legislative performance evalua-
 30    tions prior to release of the related final audit and  all  other  records  or
 31    materials in the possession of the legislative services office or the director
 32    of  legislative  performance evaluations that would  otherwise be confidential
 33    or exempt from disclosure.
 34        (3)  Records consisting of draft congressional and legislative redistrict-
 35    ing plans and documents specifically related to such draft redistricting plans
 36    or research requests submitted to the commission staff by a member of the com-
 37    mission for reapportionment for the purpose of placing such draft  redistrict-
 38    ing  plan  into  form  suitable for presentation to the full membership of the
 39    commission, unless  the  individual  commission  member  having  submitted  or
 40    requested such plans or research agrees to waive the provisions of confidenti-
 41    ality provided by this subsection.
 42        (4)  Records  that  identify the method by which the Idaho state  tax com-
 43    mission selects tax returns for audit review.
 44        (5)  Underwriting and claims records of the Idaho  petroleum  clean  water
 45    trust fund obtained pursuant to section 41-4904, 41-4908, 41-4910A, 41-4911 or
 46    41-4911A, Idaho Code. Provided however, that this subsection shall not prevent
 47    the Idaho petroleum clean water trust fund's submittal to the Idaho department
 48    of  health and welfare, division of environmental quality, or other regulatory
 49    agencies of information necessary to satisfy an  insured's  corrective  action
 50    requirement  under  applicable  federal  or  state standards in the event of a
 51    release into the environment from a petroleum storage tank; and provided  fur-
 52    ther  that  nothing in this subsection shall prevent the Idaho petroleum clean
                                                                        
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  1    water trust fund from providing auditing, reporting, or actuarial  information
  2    as  otherwise  required  of it pursuant to section 41-4918, 41-4924A, 41-4931,
  3    41-4933, 41-4935, 41-4940 or 41-4941, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
  4        SECTION 2.  That Section 9-342A, Idaho Code, be, and the  same  is  hereby
  5    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  6        9-342A.  ACCESS  TO AIR QUALITY AND HAZARDOUS WASTE RECORDS; -- PROTECTION
  7    OF TRADE SECRETS. (1) To the extent required by the federal clean air act  and
  8    the  resource  conservation  and recovery act for state primacy over any dele-
  9    gated or authorized programs, even if the record is otherwise exempt from dis-
 10    closure under section 9-340 chapter 3, title 9, Idaho  Code,  any  person  may
 11    inspect and copy:
 12        (a)  Air pollution emission data;
 13        (b)  The content of any title V operating permit;
 14        (c)  The  name  and  address of any applicant or permittee for a hazardous
 15        waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility permit pursuant to  chapter
 16        44, title 39, Idaho Code; and
 17        (d)  Any  other  record  required  to  be  provided  to or obtained by the
 18        department of health and welfare, division of environmental quality pursu-
 19        ant to the federal clean air act and the resource conservation and  recov-
 20        ery  act,  and  the  implementing  state statutes, federal regulations and
 21        state rules, unless the record is a trade secret.
 22        (2)  For purposes of this section, a record, or a portion of  the  record,
 23    is  a  "trade  secret"  if  the information contained in the record is a trade
 24    secret within the meaning of the Idaho trade secrets act, sections 48-801,  et
 25    seq., Idaho Code, including commercial or financial information which, if dis-
 26    closed,  could  cause substantial competitive harm to the person from whom the
 27    record was obtained.
 28        (3)  Any record, or portion of a record, provided to or  obtained  by  the
 29    department    of  health  and  welfare, division of environmental quality  and
 30    identified by the person providing the record as a trade secret shall  not  be
 31    disclosed to the public and shall be kept confidential according to the proce-
 32    dures established in this section.
 33        (4)  Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the disclosure
 34    of  a  trade secret by the department of health and welfare, division of envi-
 35    ronmental quality:
 36        (a)  To any officer, employee, or authorized representative of  the  state
 37        or the United States, under a continuing claim of confidentiality, as nec-
 38        essary  to carry out the provisions of state or federal law, or when rele-
 39        vant to any proceeding thereunder;
 40        (b)  As determined necessary by the administrator director of the division
 41        department of environmental quality (under  a  continuing  confidentiality
 42        claim)  to protect the public health and safety from imminent and substan-
 43        tial endangerment;
 44        (c)  As required by state or  federal  law,  including  section  9-343(3),
 45        Idaho  Code,  under  a  continuing claim of confidentiality and subsection
 46        (1), of this section; or
 47        (d)  With the consent of the person from whom the record is obtained.
 48        (5)  It shall be the responsibility of any person providing  a  record  to
 49    the  department  of  health  and welfare, division of environmental quality to
 50    give notice of the existence of a trade secret on each page or  other  portion
 51    of  information at the time of submittal and such person shall have the burden
 52    of demonstrating that the information is a trade secret.
 53        (6)  Notwithstanding the time frames set forth in section 9-339(1),  Idaho
                                                                        
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  1    Code, when a request is made to the department of health and welfare, division
  2    of  environmental  quality  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the
  3    disclosure of information for which a trade secret claim has  been  made,  and
  4    the  information  has not been demonstrated to be a trade secret to the satis-
  5    faction of the administrator director of the division department  of  environ-
  6    mental  quality,  within  three (3) working days of receipt of the request for
  7    the disclosure of the information the  division  department  of  environmental
  8    quality  shall provide a written request for substantiation to the person mak-
  9    ing the confidentiality claim. A response shall be submitted to  the  division
 10    department  of  environmental  quality by the person claiming the trade secret
 11    protection within ten (10) working days after receipt of the request for  sub-
 12    stantiation or the information subject to the claim shall be disclosed without
 13    further  notice. Upon receipt of a timely response to the request for substan-
 14    tiation, the administrator director of the division  department of environmen-
 15    tal quality shall determine whether the information is a trade secret  subject
 16    to protection.
 17        (a)  If  it  is  determined  that  the  information, or any portion of the
 18        information, is a trade  secret,  within  three  (3)  working  days  after
 19        receipt  of  the  response,  the  administrator  director  of the division
 20        department of environmental quality shall notify the person requesting the
 21        information that the request is denied pursuant to sections  9-339(3)  and
 22        (4), Idaho Code.
 23        (b)  If  it  is  determined  that  the  information, or any portion of the
 24        information, is not a trade secret and is, therefore, subject  to  disclo-
 25        sure,  within  three  (3)  working days after receipt of the response, the
 26        administrator director of the division department of environmental quality
 27        shall inform the person making the confidentiality claim of the determina-
 28        tion. The decision shall be a final agency action directly appealable,  de
 29        novo,  to  the district court of the county where the records or some part
 30        thereof are located. An appeal contesting the decision of the  administra-
 31        tor  director  of  the  division  department  of  environmental quality to
 32        release information claimed to be a trade secret shall be filed within ten
 33        (10) working days from the date of receipt of the written notice of  deci-
 34        sion.  The information claimed to be a trade secret shall not be disclosed
 35        until the period for appeal has expired with no appeal being taken,  or  a
 36        court  order  has  been issued finding that the information is not a trade
 37        secret and all appeals of that order have been exhausted.
 38        (7)  In any appeal taken pursuant to this section,  the  court  may  award
 39    reasonable  costs  and attorney's fees to the prevailing party if it finds the
 40    claim of confidentiality or the decision of the administrator director of  the
 41    division  department    of environmental quality to provide records was frivo-
 42    lously pursued.
 43        (8)  By December 31, 1998, tThe department of health and welfare  environ-
 44    mental quality shall adopt rules which include:
 45        (a)  Appropriate  measures  to safeguard and protect against improper dis-
 46        closure of trade secrets, including procedures to train all  employees  on
 47        the proper handling of trade secrets; and
 48        (b)  Any other provisions necessary to carry out this section.
 49        (9)  As  it  relates  to the department of health and welfare, division of
 50    environmental quality, or to agents, contractors, or other representatives  of
 51    the  division  department,  the immunity created in section 9-346, Idaho Code,
 52    shall apply only when disclosure of a trade secret  is  made  consistent  with
 53    this section.
                                                                        
 54        SECTION  3.  That  Section 18-6015, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
                                                                        
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  1    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  2        18-6015.  PROHIBITION ON DISPOSAL  OF  HUMAN  BODY  WASTE  FROM  PASSENGER
  3    TRAINS. (1) As used in this section:
  4        (a)  "Human  body  waste"  means  excrement, feces or other waste material
  5        discharged from the human body.
  6        (b)  "Passenger train" means any train operated by a railroad  company  or
  7        corporation  or operated by an entity created by federal law, for the pri-
  8        mary purpose of transporting passengers.
  9        (c)  "Person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company,  cor-
 10        poration,  partnership,  association,  state,  state  or federal agency or
 11        entity, city, commission, or political subdivision of a state.
 12        (2)  No person operating or controlling any  passenger  train  through  or
 13    within  this  state may knowingly and openly place, throw, release, discharge,
 14    or deposit human body waste from a passenger train upon the right-of-way  over
 15    which it operates.
 16        (3)  Any  person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a
 17    misdemeanor.
 18        (4)  The department of health and welfare environmental  quality  and  the
 19    public health districts shall enforce the provisions of this section.
                                                                        
 20        SECTION  4.  That  Section 22-3413, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 21    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 22        22-3413.  CONTAINER DISPOSAL. Partially full or empty pesticide containers
 23    shall be disposed of as prescribed by the Idaho department of health and  wel-
 24    fare environmental quality and in accordance with the federal regulations.
                                                                        
 25        SECTION  5.  That  Section 22-4801, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 26    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 27        22-4801.  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT. The legislature finds that  the
 28    current  knowledge and technology support the practice of burning crop residue
 29    to control disease, weeds, pests, and to enhance crop  rotations.  It  is  the
 30    intent  of  the legislature to promote agricultural activities. Currently some
 31    of those activities include crop residue burning. The director  of  the  Idaho
 32    department  of agriculture may promulgate rules relating to crop residue burn-
 33    ing under this chapter. Further, the legislature encourages the Idaho  depart-
 34    ment  of  agriculture and the Idaho department of health and welfare, division
 35    of environmental quality to cooperate  with  the  agricultural  community  and
 36    establish  voluntary  smoke  management and crop residue burning programs. The
 37    legislature encourages the Idaho department of agriculture  and  the  agricul-
 38    tural  community to pursue alternative means to crop residue disposal. Nothing
 39    in this chapter shall prohibit the Idaho department  of  health  and  welfare,
 40    division  of environmental quality from enforcing the environmental protection
 41    and health act, chapter 1, title 39, Idaho Code,  and  the  rules  promulgated
 42    pursuant  thereto,  as  they relate to air quality and protection of the state
 43    and national ambient air quality standards.
                                                                        
 44        SECTION 6.  That Section 22-4802, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
 45    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 46        22-4802.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
 47        (1)  "Adequate  smoke  dispersion" means that favorable meteorological and
 48    air quality conditions exist to allow crop residue burning  to  occur  without
                                                                        
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  1    endangering ambient air quality standards.
  2        (2)  "Cereal  grain  field"  means  a field of grass cultivated for edible
  3    seeds such as wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice, maize, grain, sorghum and  proso
  4    millet.
  5        (3)  "Crop  residue"  means any vegetative material remaining in the field
  6    after harvest and shall not include weeds  along  ditch  banks  or  waterways,
  7    orchard prunings, or forest slash piles.
  8        (4)  "Department" means the Idaho department of agriculture.
  9        (5)  "DEQ"  means  the Idaho department of health and welfare, division of
 10    environmental quality.
 11        (6)  "Director" means the director of the Idaho department of agriculture.
 12        (7)  "Field grass" or "forage grass field" means a field  which  has  been
 13    planted  with  one  (1) of the following varieties of grass for the purpose of
 14    producing seed: canary grass, bromegrass,  oat  grass,  Timothy  grass,  wheat
 15    grass, or orchard grass.
 16        (8)  "Person"  means a natural person, individual, firm, partnership, cor-
 17    poration, company, society, association, cooperative, two (2) or more  persons
 18    having  a  joint  or common interest, or any unit or agency of local, state or
 19    federal government.
 20        (9)  "Reasonable efforts" means, but is not limited to, the  obtaining  of
 21    any  available  information on local meteorological and air quality conditions
 22    and observing the smoke plume from small test fires or from other field burns.
 23        (10) "Turf grass field" means a field which has been planted with one  (1)
 24    of  the  following varieties of grass for the purpose of producing seed: blue-
 25    grass, bent grass, fescues or perennial ryegrass.
                                                                        
 26        SECTION 7.  That Section 22-4902, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
 27    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 28        22-4902.  DECLARATION  OF  POLICY AND STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT. (1)
 29    The  legislature  recognizes  the  importance  of  protecting  state   natural
 30    resources  including,  surface water and ground water. It is the intent of the
 31    legislature to protect the quality of these natural resources while  maintain-
 32    ing  an economically viable beef cattle industry in the state. The beef cattle
 33    industry produces manure and process wastewater  which,  when  properly  used,
 34    supplies  valuable  nutrients and organic matter to soils and is protective of
 35    the environment, but may, when improperly stored and managed,  create  adverse
 36    impacts  on natural resources, including waters of the state. This act chapter
 37    is intended to ensure that manure and process wastewater associated with  beef
 38    cattle operations are handled in a manner which protects the natural resources
 39    of the state.
 40        (2)  Further,  the legislature recognizes that the beef cattle industry is
 41    potentially subject to various state and  federal  laws  designed  to  protect
 42    state natural resources and that the Idaho department of agriculture is in the
 43    best  position to administer and implement these various laws. It is therefore
 44    the intent of the legislature that the  administration  of  this  law  by  the
 45    department  of  agriculture fully meets the goals and requirements of the fed-
 46    eral clean water act and state laws designed to further protect  state  waters
 47    and  that administration of this act  chapter by the department of agriculture
 48    shall not be more stringent than or broader in scope than the requirements  of
 49    the  clean  water  act  and  applicable state and federal laws. The department
 50    shall have authority to administer all laws to protect the  quality  of  water
 51    within the confines of a beef cattle animal feeding operation. In carrying out
 52    this  act  chapter the department shall prioritize its resources on operations
 53    which have the greatest potential to significantly impact the environment  and
                                                                        
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  1    ensure  that any requirements imposed under this act chapter upon operators of
  2    beef cattle animal feeding operations  are  cost-effective  and  economically,
  3    environmentally and technologically feasible.
  4        (3)  Successful  implementation  of this act chapter is dependent upon the
  5    department receiving adequate funding from the legislature  and  is  dependent
  6    upon the department executing a memorandum of agreement with the United States
  7    environmental  protection  agency,  the  division  department of environmental
  8    quality and the Idaho cattle association which sets forth a  working  arrange-
  9    ment  between  the  agencies  to  ensure  compliance with this act chapter and
 10    applicable state and federal laws, including  the  federal  clean  water  act.
 11    Moreover,  the  legislature  recognizes  that it is important for the state to
 12    obtain a delegated national pollutant  discharge  elimination  system  (NPDES)
 13    permit program from the EPA under the clean water act.
                                                                        
 14        SECTION  8.  That  Section 22-4903, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 15    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 16        22-4903.  AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF DIRECTOR CONCERNING BEEF  CATTLE  ANIMAL
 17    FEEDING  OPERATIONS. The director of the department of agriculture through the
 18    division of animal industries is authorized to  regulate  beef  cattle  animal
 19    feeding operations to protect state natural resources, including surface water
 20    and ground water. In order to carry out its duties under this act chapter, the
 21    department  shall  be  the  responsible state department to prevent any ground
 22    water contamination from beef cattle animal  feeding  operations  as  provided
 23    under  section  39-120,  Idaho  Code. The director shall have the authority to
 24    exercise any other authorities delegated by the administrator director of  the
 25    division  department  of  environmental  quality  regarding  the protection of
 26    ground water, surface water and other natural resources associated  with  con-
 27    fined  animal  feeding  operations,  and  this  shall be the authority for the
 28    administrator director of the division department of environmental quality  to
 29    so delegate. The administrator director of the division department of environ-
 30    mental  quality  shall consult with the director of the department of agricul-
 31    ture before certifying discharges from beef cattle animal  feeding  operations
 32    as provided under 33 U.S.C. section 1341.
                                                                        
 33        SECTION  9.  That  Section 22-4905, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 34    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 35        22-4905.  DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. Each new  beef  cattle  animal  feeding
 36    operation  and each modified beef cattle animal feeding operation shall design
 37    and construct all new and modified wastewater storage and containment  facili-
 38    ties  in accordance with the engineering standards and specifications provided
 39    by the natural resource conservation service or the American society of  agri-
 40    cultural  engineers  (ASAE)  or other equally  protective standard approved by
 41    the director. The department's review and approval of plans under this section
 42    shall supersede the Idaho department of health and welfare, division of  envi-
 43    ronmental  quality's  implementation  of  plan  and  specification  review and
 44    approval provided under section 39-118, Idaho Code. Such design and  construc-
 45    tion shall be considered a best management practice.
                                                                        
 46        SECTION  10.  That Section 31-4405, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 47    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 48        31-4405.  RULES AND REGULATIONS -- NOTICE OF VIOLATION --  MISDEMEANOR  --
 49    INJUNCTION.  All solid waste disposal systems shall be located, maintained and
                                                                        
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  1    operated according to rules and regulations promulgated  and  adopted  by  the
  2    state board of health and welfare environmental quality. Every person who vio-
  3    lates  any  of the provisions of this act, or of any order, rule or regulation
  4    of the state board of health and welfare environmental quality issued pursuant
  5    thereto, where a copy of the order, rule or regulation has  been  served  upon
  6    said  person  by  certified  mail,  and  said person fails to comply therewith
  7    within the time provided in the order, rule or regulation, or within ten  (10)
  8    days  of  such  service if not otherwise provided, shall be guilty of a misde-
  9    meanor. In the event of a continuing violation, each day  that  the  violation
 10    continues  constitutes  a  separate  and  distinct offense. In addition to the
 11    criminal penalties provided by this act, whenever  it  appears  to  the  state
 12    board  of health and welfare environmental quality that any person has engaged
 13    or is about to engage in any act or practice constituting a violation  of  any
 14    provision  of  this  act  or of any rule or regulation promulgated and adopted
 15    under the provisions of this act, the board may bring an action in  any  court
 16    of  competent jurisdiction to enjoin any such acts or practices and to enforce
 17    compliance with this act or any rule or regulation hereunder. Upon  a  showing
 18    that  a person has engaged or is about to engage in an act or practice consti-
 19    tuting a violation of this act or any rule or regulation hereunder,  a  perma-
 20    nent  or  temporary injunction, restraining order or writ of mandamus shall be
 21    granted. The board of health and welfare environmental quality  shall  not  be
 22    required to furnish bond.
                                                                        
 23        SECTION  11.  That Section 36-1905, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 24    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 25        36-1905.  MYRTLE CREEK PRESERVE. There is hereby created within the bound-
 26    aries of Boundary County, within the state of Idaho, a wildlife preserve to be
 27    known  as  Myrtle  Creek  preserve,   the   boundaries   of   which   are   as
 28    follows:  beginning  at the southwest corner of section 23, township 62 north,
 29    range 1 west of the Boise meridian; thence north along the west line  of  sec-
 30    tion  23  to  the  summit of the ridge between Myrtle Creek and Cascade Creek,
 31    thence northwesterly along this ridge to Burton Peak, then westerly along  the
 32    summit  of  the ridge between Myrtle Creek and Ball Creek to Myrtle Peak, then
 33    southerly around the head of Myrtle Creek following the summit  of  the  ridge
 34    between Myrtle Creek and Two Mouth Creek, to Harrison Peak, then following the
 35    summit  of the ridge between Myrtle Creek and Snow Creek in an easterly direc-
 36    tion to a point approximately 1 mile east of Kootenai Point where  this  ridge
 37    intersects the east line of section 28, township 62 north, range 1 west of the
 38    Boise meridian; thence in a northeasterly direction to the point of beginning.
 39        (a)  Fishing   restricted.  In  addition  to  the  provisions  of  section
 40    36-1902, of this chapter Idaho Code, it shall be unlawful for  any  person  at
 41    any time to fish within the boundaries of the aforesaid Myrtle Creek preserve.
 42    Provided  that the Idaho fish and game commission may, after receiving concur-
 43    rent written approval from the Idaho department of health and welfare environ-
 44    mental quality and the Bonners Ferry city council,  open  certain  waters  and
 45    lands  lying  within the Myrtle Creek preserve to hunting, fishing or trapping
 46    during prescribed seasons. Provided further that any fish  eradication  treat-
 47    ment  of  waters  in the Myrtle Creek preserve by the Idaho department of fish
 48    and game shall be undertaken only with the concurrent  written  permission  of
 49    the  Idaho  department  of  health  and  welfare environmental quality and the
 50    Bonners Ferry city council and under  the  direct  supervision  of  the  Idaho
 51    department of health and welfare environmental quality.
                                                                        
 52        SECTION  12.  That Section 36-2404, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
                                                                        
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  1    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  2        36-2404.  STATE DELISTING MANAGEMENT PLAN REQUIREMENTS. (1) The  delisting
  3    advisory  team shall develop a state management plan for a species in response
  4    to all notification of intent to delist the species by the secretary of  inte-
  5    rior  or secretary of commerce or sooner if deemed appropriate. The state man-
  6    agement plan shall provide for the management and conservation of the  species
  7    once  it is delisted, and contain sufficient safeguards to protect the health,
  8    safety, private property and economic well-being of the citizens of the  state
  9    of Idaho.
 10        (2)  The department of fish and game or the department of parks and recre-
 11    ation,  as appropriate, shall provide the delisting advisory teams, the infor-
 12    mational, technical or other needs and requirements of those teams in the per-
 13    formance of their duties.
 14        (3)  In developing state delisting management plans, the  delisting  advi-
 15    sory   team shall consult with the appropriate state agencies, commissions and
 16    boards. The appropriate state agency for wildlife biological and species  man-
 17    agement  issues  is  the  department  of  fish and game. The appropriate state
 18    agency for plant life biological and species management issues is the  depart-
 19    ment  of parks and recreation. The appropriate state agency for timber harvest
 20    activities, oil and gas exploration activities and for  mining  activities  is
 21    the  department  of  lands.  The  appropriate  state agencies for agricultural
 22    activities are the department of agriculture and the soil conservation commis-
 23    sion. The appropriate state agency for public road construction is the  trans-
 24    portation  department.  The  appropriate  state agency for water rights is the
 25    department of water resources. The appropriate state agency for water  quality
 26    is  the  division  department  of  environmental quality. in the department of
 27    health and welfare. The appropriate state agency for  outfitting  and  guiding
 28    activities is the Idaho outfitters and guides licensing board.
                                                                        
 29        SECTION 13.  That the Heading for Chapter 1, Title 39, Idaho Code, be, and
 30    the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 31                  DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY -- HEALTH AND
 32                                       WELFARE
                                                                        
 33        SECTION  14.  That Section 39-104A, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 34    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 35        39-104A.  AUTHORITY TO MAKE RULES REGULATING LARGE SWINE AND POULTRY FEED-
 36    ING OPERATIONS -- FINANCIAL ASSURANCES. (1) The state of Idaho is experiencing
 37    the development of large swine and poultry feeding operations which are inade-
 38    quately controlled through existing state regulatory mechanisms. If not  prop-
 39    erly  regulated,  these  facilities  pose  a threat to the state's surface and
 40    ground water resources. Due to existing  rulemaking  authority,  the  division
 41    department of environmental quality is in the best position of all state agen-
 42    cies  to modify its present rules and to make new rules to develop an adequate
 43    regulatory framework for large swine and poultry feeding operations.
 44        (2)  The division department of environmental  quality  is  authorized  to
 45    modify  its  existing  administrative  rules  and to make new rules regulating
 46    large swine and poultry feeding operations, as they shall be  defined  by  the
 47    division  department.  The  division department is authorized to work with the
 48    Idaho department of agriculture in the development of such rules.
 49        (3)  Owners and operators of swine  and  poultry  facilities  required  to
 50    obtain  a permit from the division department of environmental quality to con-
                                                                        
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  1    struct, operate, expand or close the facilities shall provide financial assur-
  2    ances demonstrating financial capability to meet  requirements  for  operation
  3    and  closure  of  the  facilities  and remediation. Requirements for financial
  4    assurances shall be determined by the agency as set forth in  rule.  Financial
  5    assurances  may include any mechanism or combination of mechanisms meeting the
  6    requirements established by agency rule including, but not limited to,  surety
  7    bonds,  trust  funds,  irrevocable  letters of credit, insurance and corporate
  8    guarantees. The mechanism(s) used to demonstrate financial capability must  be
  9    legally  valid,  binding  and enforceable under applicable law and must ensure
 10    that the funds necessary to meet the costs of closure and remediation will  be
 11    available  whenever  the  funds  are needed. The director may retain financial
 12    assurances for up to five (5) years after closure  of  a  facility  to  ensure
 13    proper closure and remediation, as defined by rule.
 14        (4)  Nothing  in this section prohibits the boards of county commissioners
 15    of any county or the governing body of any city from adopting regulations that
 16    are more stringent or that require greater  financial  assurances  than  those
 17    imposed by the division department of environmental quality. A board of county
 18    commissioners  of  a  county or a governing body of a city in which a swine or
 19    poultry facility is located may choose to determine whether  the  facility  is
 20    properly closed according to imposed standards or may leave that determination
 21    to  the division department. This choice shall be communicated to the director
 22    in writing when closure begins; provided that determinations of closure  by  a
 23    board  of  county  commissioners  of a county or a governing body of a city in
 24    which the swine or poultry facility is located shall not permit closure  under
 25    less stringent requirements than those imposed by the division department.
 26        (5)  As used in this section:
 27        (a)  "Animal  unit"  means  a  unit equaling two and one-half (2.5) swine,
 28        each weighing over twenty-five (25)  kilograms  (approximately  fifty-five
 29        (55)  pounds),  or  ten (10) weaned swine, each weighing under twenty-five
 30        (25) kilograms, or one hundred (100) poultry. Total animal units are  cal-
 31        culated  by  adding  the  number  of  swine weighing over twenty-five (25)
 32        kilograms multiplied by four-tenths (.4) plus the number of  weaned  swine
 33        weighing  under  twenty-five  (25)  kilograms multiplied by one-tenth (.1)
 34        plus the number of poultry multiplied by one one-hundredth (.01).
 35        (b)  "Facilities" or "facility" means a place, site or  location  or  part
 36        thereof  where  swine  or  poultry  are kept, handled, housed or otherwise
 37        maintained and includes, but is not limited to, buildings, lots, pens  and
 38        animal  waste  management  systems,  and  which has a one-time animal unit
 39        capacity of two thousand (2,000) or more animal units.
 40        (c)  "Large swine and poultry feeding operations" means  swine  facilities
 41        and poultry facilities having a one-time animal unit capacity of two thou-
 42        sand (2,000) or more animal units.
 43        (d)  "One-time  animal  unit  capacity" means the maximum number of animal
 44        units that a facility is capable of housing at any given time.
                                                                        
 45        SECTION 15.  That Section 39-166, Idaho Code, as added by Section 1, Chap-
 46    ter 204, Laws of 1996, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 47        39-16671.  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. The legislature of the  state
 48    of Idaho finds that:
 49        (1)  Wood and mill yard debris is a byproduct of wood processing and manu-
 50    facturing; and
 51        (2)  If  properly  managed,  wood  and mill yard debris can be put to uses
 52    that have economic and environmental benefits; and
 53        (3)  There is a need for guidance about how to manage, store, use or  dis-
                                                                        
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  1    pose  of  wood and mill yard debris so that nuisance and adverse environmental
  2    impacts are minimized; and
  3        (4)  This guidance will enable the department and local units  of  govern-
  4    ment  to  more  effectively regulate the use or disposal of wood and mill yard
  5    debris.
  6        The purpose of this act sections 39-171 through 39-174, Idaho Code, is  to
  7    provide  guidance  for the sound use, storage, management and disposal of wood
  8    and mill yard debris by requiring the director of the department of health and
  9    welfare environmental quality to appoint a committee to study the  issues  and
 10    to  gather  and disseminate information to persons and entities that deal with
 11    wood and mill yard debris.
                                                                        
 12        SECTION 16.  That Section 39-167, Idaho Code, as added by Section 2, Chap-
 13    ter 204, Laws of 1996, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 14        39-1672.  DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this act  sections  39-171  through
 15    39-174, Idaho Code:
 16        (1)  "Committee" means the wood and mill yard debris committee.
 17        (2)  "Director"  means  the director of the Idaho department of health and
 18    welfare environmental quality.
 19        (3)  "Wood or mill yard debris" means solid wood, bark, or wood fiber gen-
 20    erated from the process of manufacturing wood products that may include compo-
 21    nents of soil, rock, or moisture, and for which the use,  management,  storage
 22    or  final disposition is approved pursuant to this act sections 39-171 through
 23    39-174, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 24        SECTION 17.  That Section 39-168, Idaho Code, as added by Section 3, Chap-
 25    ter 204, Laws of 1996, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 26        39-16873.  COMMITTEE -- MEMBERS -- TERMS. The director shall, in  coopera-
 27    tion  with the appropriate public health districts created pursuant to chapter
 28    4, title 39, Idaho Code, appoint a committee to develop guidance on  the  use,
 29    storage,  management  and disposal of mill yard or wood debris. This committee
 30    shall consist of seven (7) individuals and shall include:
 31        (1)  One (1) representative of the division  department  of  environmental
 32    quality, who will provide administrative and other support to the committee.
 33        (2)  Two  (2)  representatives  of  the public health districts which have
 34    mill yard or wood debris within their districts.
 35        (3)  Two (2) representatives from industries generating wood or mill  yard
 36    debris.
 37        (4)  Two  (2)  members  with demonstrated technical knowledge important to
 38    the work of the committee.
 39        Committee members shall be appointed to serve three  (3)  year  terms.  No
 40    member  may  serve more than two (2) full terms. Members serve at the pleasure
 41    of the director.
 42        Members of the committee shall serve without compensation pursuant to sec-
 43    tion 59-509(a), Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 44        SECTION 18.  That Section 39-169, Idaho Code, as added by Section 4, Chap-
 45    ter 204, Laws of 1996, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 46        39-16974.  COMMITTEE DUTIES --  MEETINGS.  The  committee's  duties  shall
 47    include:
 48        (1)  Developing  a manual providing guidance for the use, storage, manage-
 49    ment and disposal of wood or mill yard debris to prevent public nuisances  and
                                                                        
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  1    minimize  or  prevent  harmful environmental impacts. Guidance provided by the
  2    manual may be incorporated or adopted by reference in the rules of the depart-
  3    ment or other appropriate state agencies.
  4        (2)  Considering and developing specific solutions to unforeseen  wood  or
  5    mill yard debris use, storage, management or disposal as needed.
  6        (3)  Developing and sharing knowledge related to the use, storage, manage-
  7    ment and disposal of wood or mill yard debris including ways to constructively
  8    use or reclaim the debris.
  9        (4)  Making  recommendations  for any necessary permits, rules or legisla-
 10    tion related to the use, storage, management or disposal of wood or mill  yard
 11    debris.
 12        The committee shall meet at least two (2) times a year at a time and place
 13    most convenient to the majority of members.
                                                                        
 14        SECTION  19.  That Section 39-3003, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 15    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 16        39-3003.  DEFINITIONS.  (1.)  "By-productByproduct  material"  means   any
 17    radioactive  material  (except  special  nuclear  material) yielded in or made
 18    radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of  producing
 19    or utilizing special nuclear material.
 20        (2.)  "Electronic  product"  means  any  manufactured product or device or
 21    component part of such a product or device  that  has  an  electronic  circuit
 22    which during operation can generate or emit a physical field of radiation.
 23        (3.) (a.)  "General license" means a license effective pursuant to regula-
 24        tions rules promulgated by the state radiation control agency, without the
 25        filing of an application, to transfer, acquire, own, possess, or use quan-
 26        tities  of,  or  devices  or  equipment  utilizing,  by-product byproduct,
 27        source, special nuclear materials, or other radioactive material occurring
 28        naturally or produced artificially.
 29        (b.)  "Specific license" means a license, issued after application to use,
 30        manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, or possess  quanti-
 31        ties  of,  or devices or equipment utilizing by-product byproduct, source,
 32        special nuclear materials, or other radioactive materials occurring  natu-
 33        rally or produced artificially.
 34        (4.)  "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, asso-
 35    ciation,  trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, politi-
 36    cal subdivision of this state, any other state  or  political  subdivision  or
 37    agency  thereof,  and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of
 38    the foregoing, other than the United States atomic energy commission,  or  any
 39    successor thereto.
 40        (5.)  "Source material" means: (a) uranium, thorium, or any other material
 41    which  the  governor  declares by order to be source material after the United
 42    States atomic energy commission, or any successor thereto, has determined  the
 43    material  to  be such; or (b) ores containing one (1) or more of the foregoing
 44    materials, in such concentration as the  governor  declares  by  order  to  be
 45    source  material after the United States atomic energy commission, or any suc-
 46    cessor thereto, has determined the material in such concentration to be source
 47    material.
 48        (6.)  "Special nuclear material" means: (a) plutonium, uranium  233,  ura-
 49    nium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material
 50    which  the governor declares by order to be special nuclear material after the
 51    United States atomic energy commission, or any successor thereto,  has  deter-
 52    mined  the  material  to be such, but does not include source material; or (b)
 53    any material artificially enriched by any  of  the  foregoing,  but  does  not
                                                                        
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  1    include source material.
  2        (7.)  "Registration" means registration with the state board of health and
  3    welfare  environmental  quality by any person possessing a source of radiation
  4    in accordance with rules, regulations and standards adopted by the state board
  5    of health and welfare environmental quality.
  6        (8.)  "Radiation" means:
  7        (a.)  Ionizing radiation including gamma rays, X-rays, alpha and beta par-
  8        ticles, and other atomic or nuclear particles or rays.
  9        (b.)  Any electromagnetic radiation which  can  be  generated  during  the
 10        operation of electronic products.
 11        (c.)  Any sonic, ultrasonic, or infrasonic waves which are emitted from an
 12        electronic  product  as a result of the operation of an electronic circuit
 13        in such product.
 14        (9.)  "Radiation source" means any type of device or  substance  which  is
 15    capable of producing or emitting radiation.
                                                                        
 16        SECTION  20.  That Section 39-3005, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 17    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 18        39-3005.  STATE RADIATION CONTROL AGENCY. (1.)  The  state  department  of
 19    health  and welfare environmental quality is designated as the state radiation
 20    control agency, hereinafter referred to as the agency, and shall be the  state
 21    agency  having  sole  responsibility  for  administration  of  the regulatory,
 22    licensing and radiation control provisions of this chapter.
 23        (2.)  The director of the department of health and  welfare  environmental
 24    quality  shall  be administrator of the agency, hereinafter referred to as the
 25    director, who shall perform the functions vested in the agency pursuant to the
 26    provisions of this chapter.
 27        (3.)  The director shall appoint a state radiation control officer, and in
 28    accordance with the laws of the state, fix his compensation and prescribe  his
 29    powers  and  duties.  Such  officer  shall  be competent to evaluate radiation
 30    health hazards associated with the many uses of radioactive material and other
 31    sources of radiation. He shall  at  least  have  a  baccalaureate  degree,  be
 32    trained in the physical and/or life sciences, and shall have had experience in
 33    health physics.
 34        (4.)  In  accordance with the laws of the state, the director may appoint,
 35    fix the compensation, and prescribe the powers and duties of such other  indi-
 36    viduals, including consultants, advisory councils, emergency teams and commit-
 37    tees  as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. The person-
 38    nel engaged in field activities of evaluation and inspection  shall  at  least
 39    have  a  baccalaureate  degree  in  the  physical and/or life sciences, or the
 40    equivalent, and be trained in health physics.
 41        (5.)  The agency shall for the protection of the occupational  and  public
 42    health and safety:
 43        (a.)  Develop  programs  for  evaluation of hazards associated with use of
 44        radiation;
 45        (b.)  Develop programs with due regard for compatibility with federal pro-
 46        grams for regulation of by-product byproduct, source, and special  nuclear
 47        materials;
 48        (c.)  Formulate,  and  with  the  advice of the nuclear energy commission,
 49        recommend that the board  of  health  and  welfare  environmental  quality
 50        adopt,  promulgate,  and  repeal  codes,  rules, regulations and standards
 51        relating to control of sources of radiation;
 52        (d.)  Advise, consult, and cooperate with other agencies of the state, and
 53        federal government, other states and interstate agencies, political subdi-
                                                                        
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  1        visions, and with groups concerned with control of sources of radiation;
  2        (e.)  Encourage,  participate  in,  or  conduct  studies,  investigations,
  3        training, research, and demonstrations relating to control of  sources  of
  4        radiation;
  5        (f.)  Collect  and  disseminate information relating to control of sources
  6        of radiation; including:
  7             (1i)   Maintenance of a file of all license applications,  issuances,
  8             denials, amendments, transfers, renewals, modifications, suspensions,
  9             and revocations;
 10             (2ii)  Maintenance  of  a  file  of registrants possessing sources of
 11             radiation requiring registration under the provisions of this act and
 12             any administrative or judicial action pertaining thereto; and
 13             (3iii) Maintenance of a file of all rules and regulations relating to
 14             regulations of sources of radiation, pending or promulgated, and pro-
 15             ceedings thereon.
 16        (g.)  Have the authority to accept and administer loans, grants, or  other
 17        funds  or gifts, conditional or otherwise, in furtherance of its functions
 18        from the federal government and from other sources, public or private.
 19        (h.)  Submit an annual report to the governor and to the legislature  con-
 20        cerning the control of sources of radiation and atomic energy.
 21        (i.)  Issue  subpoenas in order to compel the attendance of necessary wit-
 22        nesses and/or the production of records and documents.
                                                                        
 23        SECTION 21.  That Section 39-3006, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 24    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 25        39-3006.  RULES AND REGULATIONS -- LICENSING REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURE --
 26    REGISTRATION  OF  SOURCES  OF  RADIATION  --  EXEMPTIONS  FROM REGISTRATION OR
 27    LICENSING. (1.) The board of health and welfare  environmental  quality  shall
 28    provide  by rule or regulation for general or specific licensing of by-product
 29    byproduct, source, special nuclear materials, or devices or equipment  utiliz-
 30    ing  such materials, or other radioactive material occurring naturally or pro-
 31    duced artificially. Such rule or regulation shall provide for amendment,  sus-
 32    pension,  or  revocation  of  licenses.  Such rule or regulation shall provide
 33    that:
 34        (a.)  Each application for a specific license  shall  be  in  writing  and
 35        shall  state  such  information  as the board, by rule, or regulation, may
 36        determine to be necessary to decide the technical, insurance,  and  finan-
 37        cial  qualifications,  or  any other qualification of the applicant as the
 38        agency may deem reasonable and necessary to protect the  occupational  and
 39        public  health  and safety. The agency may at any time after the filing of
 40        the application, and before the expiration of the license, require further
 41        written statements and shall make such inspections  as  the  agency  deems
 42        necessary  in  order to determine whether the license should be granted or
 43        denied or whether the license should be modified, suspended,  or  revoked.
 44        In no event shall the agency grant a specific license to any applicant who
 45        has  never  possessed  a  specific license issued by a recognized state or
 46        federal authority until the agency has conducted an inspection  or  review
 47        which insures that the applicant can meet the rules, regulations and stan-
 48        dards  adopted pursuant to this act. All applications and statements shall
 49        be signed by the applicant or licensee. The agency may require any  appli-
 50        cations or statements to be made under oath or affirmation;
 51        (b.)  Each license shall be in such form and contain such terms and condi-
 52        tions as the Bboard may by rule or regulation prescribe;
 53        (c.)  No  license  issued  under the authority of this act and no right to
                                                                        
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  1        process or utilize sources of radiation granted by any  license  shall  be
  2        assigned or in any manner disposed of; and
  3        (d.)  The  terms and conditions of all licenses shall be subject to amend-
  4        ment, revision, or modification by rules, regulations or orders issued  in
  5        accordance with the provisions of this act.
  6        (2.)  The  board  of  health and welfare environmental quality may require
  7    licensing of those persons installing or repairing sources of radiation  which
  8    the board has determined to present a potential hazard to the occupational and
  9    public health and safety. Such licensing requirements shall provide that:
 10        (a.)  Each  application  for a license shall be in writing and shall state
 11        such information as the board, by rule, or regulation, may determine to be
 12        necessary to decide the technical,  insurance,  and  financial  qualifica-
 13        tions,  or any other qualification of the applicant as the agency may deem
 14        reasonable and necessary. The agency may at any time after the  filing  of
 15        the application, and before the expiration of the license, require further
 16        written  statements  and  shall  make such inspections as the agency deems
 17        necessary in order to determine whether the license should be  granted  or
 18        denied  or  whether the license should be modified, suspended, or revoked.
 19        All applications and statements shall be signed by the applicant or licen-
 20        see. The agency may require any applications  or  statements  to  be  made
 21        under oath or affirmation;
 22        (b.)  Each license shall be in such form and contain such terms and condi-
 23        tions as the board of health and welfare environmental quality may by rule
 24        or regulation prescribe;
 25        (c.)  No  license  issued  under the authority of this act and no right to
 26        possess or utilize sources of radiation granted by any  license  shall  be
 27        assigned or in any manner disposed of; and
 28        (d.)  The  terms and conditions of all licenses shall be subject to amend-
 29        ment, revision, or modification by rules, regulations or orders issued  in
 30        accordance with the provisions of this act.
 31        (3.)  The  board  of  health and welfare environmental quality may require
 32    registration of all sources of ionizing radiation and other sources of  radia-
 33    tion  which  the  agency  has  determined to present a potential hazard to the
 34    occupational and public health and safety.
 35        (4.)  The board of health and welfare  environmental  quality  may  exempt
 36    certain  sources of ionizing radiation or kinds of uses or users from the reg-
 37    istration or licensing requirements set forth in this section when the  agency
 38    makes a finding, with advice of the nuclear energy commission, that the exemp-
 39    tion  of such sources of ionizing radiation or kinds of uses or users will not
 40    constitute a significant risk to the health and safety of the public.
 41        (5.)  In promulgating rules and regulations pursuant to this act the board
 42    of health and welfare  environmental  quality  shall,  insofar  as  practical,
 43    strive  to avoid requiring dual licensing, and shall provide for such recogni-
 44    tion of other state or federal licenses as the agency  shall  deem  desirable,
 45    subject  to  such registration requirements as the board of health and welfare
 46    environmental quality may prescribe.
                                                                        
 47        SECTION 22.  That Section 39-3007, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 48    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 49        39-3007.  INSPECTION.  The  agency  or  its duly authorized representative
 50    shall have the power to enter at all reasonable times upon any private or pub-
 51    lic property for the purpose of determining whether or not there is compliance
 52    with or violation of the provisions of this  act  and  rules  and  regulations
 53    issued  thereunder, except that entry into areas under the exclusive jurisdic-
                                                                        
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  1    tion of the federal government, or security areas under the direct or indirect
  2    jurisdiction of the federal government, shall be effected only with  the  con-
  3    currence of the federal government or its duly designated representative.
                                                                        
  4        SECTION  23.  That Section 39-3008, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  5    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  6        39-3008.  RECORDS. (1.) The agency shall require each person who possesses
  7    or uses a source of radiation to maintain necessary records  relating  to  its
  8    receipt,  use,  storage,  transfer,  or disposal and such other records as the
  9    agency may require which will permit the determination of the extent of  occu-
 10    pational  and  public  exposure  from  the  radiation  source. Copies of these
 11    records shall be submitted to the agency on request.  These  requirements  are
 12    subject to such exemptions as may be provided by rules.
 13        (2.)  The  agency may by rule and regulation establish standards requiring
 14    that personnel monitoring be provided for any employee potentially exposed  to
 15    radiation  and  may provide for the reporting to any employee of his radiation
 16    exposure record.
                                                                        
 17        SECTION 24.  That Section 39-3011, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 18    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 19        39-3011.  ADMINISTRATIVE  PROCEDURE.  In any proceeding under this act for
 20    the issuance or modification or repeal of rules and  regulations  relating  to
 21    control of sources of radiation, the agency shall comply with the requirements
 22    of chapter 52, of title 67, Idaho Code.
 23        Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, whenever the agency finds
 24    that  an  emergency  exists  requiring  immediate action to protect the public
 25    health, safety, or general welfare, the agency may, without notice or hearing,
 26    issue a regulation rule or order reciting the existence of such emergency  and
 27    require  that such action be taken as is necessary to meet the emergency. Such
 28    regulations rules or orders shall be effective immediately.
                                                                        
 29        SECTION 25.  That Section 39-3012, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 30    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 31        39-3012.  INJUNCTION  PROCEEDINGS. Notwithstanding the existence or use of
 32    any other remedy, whenever any person has engaged in, or is  about  to  engage
 33    in,  any  acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation of
 34    any provision of this act, or any rule, regulation, or order  issued  thereun-
 35    der, the attorney general upon the request of the agency, after notice to such
 36    person  and  opportunity  to  comply,  may make application to the appropriate
 37    court for an order enjoining such acts or practices, or for an order directing
 38    compliance, and upon a showing by the agency that such person has engaged  in,
 39    or is about to engage in, any such acts or practices, a permanent or temporary
 40    injunction, restraining order, or other order may be granted.
                                                                        
 41        SECTION  26.  That Section 39-3017, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 42    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 43        39-3017.  PENALTIES. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this
 44    act or rules, regulations, or orders  in  effect  pursuant  thereto  shall  be
 45    guilty of a misdemeanor.
                                                                        
 46        SECTION  27.  That Section 39-3018, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
                                                                        
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  1    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  2        39-3018.  CONDUCT OF STUDIES CONCERNING NUCLEAR ENERGY  DEVELOPMENT.  Each
  3    of  the several departments and agencies of this state, including specifically
  4    the state department of health and welfare environmental  quality,  the  state
  5    department  of labor and industrial services, the state industrial commission,
  6    and the division of tourism and industrial development department of  commerce
  7    in the office of the governor, is directed:
  8        (1.)  To  initiate  and  to  pursue continuing studies as may be requested
  9    from time to time by the nuclear energy commission relative to  the  need  for
 10    changes in the laws, regulations and programs administered by it so as to fur-
 11    ther  the development of the peaceful and productive uses of nuclear energy in
 12    this state, and to make such recommendations, on the basis  of  such  studies,
 13    for  the  enactment  of laws or amendments to law administered by it, and such
 14    proposals for amendments to the regulations issued by it, as may appear neces-
 15    sary and appropriate.
 16        (2.)  To otherwise cooperate  with  the  nuclear  energy  commission,  the
 17    office  of  nuclear energy development, and the state radiation control agency
 18    in the performance of their duties as set out in this act.
                                                                        
 19        SECTION 28.  That Section 39-3019, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 20    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 21        39-3019.  EXISTING REGULATIONS RULES REMAIN IN EFFECT. The rules and regu-
 22    lations  and  minimum standards for radiation protection in the state of Idaho
 23    adopted by the state board of health and welfare environmental quality and  in
 24    effect  on  the  effective date of this act may be continued in full force and
 25    effect notwithstanding the other provisions  of  this  act  unless  and  until
 26    superseded or replaced by rules and regulations adopted and promulgated pursu-
 27    ant to the provisions of this act.
                                                                        
 28        SECTION  29.  That Section 39-3026, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 29    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 30        39-3026.  IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLE III. The state  department  of  health
 31    and  welfare  environmental quality, as the designated state radiation control
 32    agency, shall adopt the practices and may impose  the  fees  authorized  under
 33    article  III of the compact, except that the Idaho state police and the public
 34    utilities commission shall retain their existing  enforcement  and  inspection
 35    authority  relating to carriers. The board of health and welfare environmental
 36    quality shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary  to  enable
 37    the  department  of  health and welfare environmental quality to carry out the
 38    provisions of this section.
                                                                        
 39        SECTION 30.  That Section 39-3601, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 40    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 41        39-3601.  DECLARATION  OF  POLICY AND STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The
 42    legislature, recognizing that surface water is one of the state's  most  valu-
 43    able  natural  resources, has approved the adoption of water quality standards
 44    and authorized the administrator director of the division department of  envi-
 45    ronmental  quality  of the department of health and welfare in accordance with
 46    the provisions of this chapter, to implement these  standards.   In  order  to
 47    maintain and achieve existing and designated beneficial uses and to conform to
 48    the  expressed  intent  of congress to control pollution of streams, lakes and
                                                                        
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  1    other surface waters, the legislature declares that it is the purpose of  this
  2    act chapter to enhance and preserve the quality and value of the surface water
  3    resources  of the state of Idaho, and to define the responsibilities of public
  4    agencies in the control, and  monitoring  of  water  pollution,  and,  through
  5    implementation  of  this act chapter, enhance the state's economic well-being.
  6    In consequence of the benefits resulting to the  public  health,  welfare  and
  7    economy,  it is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Idaho to pro-
  8    tect this natural resource by monitoring and controlling water  pollution;  to
  9    support  and  aid  technical  and  planning research leading to the control of
 10    water pollution, and to provide financial and technical assistance to  munici-
 11    palities,  soil  conservation  districts  and other agencies in the control of
 12    water pollution. The director, in cooperation with such other agencies as  may
 13    be  appropriate,  shall  administer  this act chapter. It is the intent of the
 14    legislature that the state of Idaho fully meet the goals and  requirements  of
 15    the  federal  clean  water  act  and that the rules promulgated under this act
 16    chapter not impose requirements beyond those of the federal clean water act.
                                                                        
 17        SECTION 31.  That Section 39-3602, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 18    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 19        39-3602.  DEFINITIONS.  Whenever  used or referred to in this act chapter,
 20    unless a different meaning clearly appears from  the  context,  the  following
 21    terms shall have the following meanings:
 22        (1)  "Applicable  water  quality standard" means those water quality stan-
 23    dards identified in the rules of the department.
 24        (2)  "Best management practice" means practices,  techniques  or  measures
 25    developed, or identified, by the designated agency and identified in the state
 26    water  quality management plan which are determined to be a cost-effective and
 27    practicable means of preventing or reducing pollutants generated from nonpoint
 28    sources to a level compatible with water quality goals.
 29        (3)  "Board" means the board of health and welfare environmental quality.
 30        (4)  "Department" means the department of health and welfare environmental
 31    quality.
 32        (5)  "Designated agency" means the department of lands for timber  harvest
 33    activities, for oil and gas exploration and development and for mining activi-
 34    ties; the soil conservation commission for grazing activities and for agricul-
 35    tural  activities; the transportation department for public road construction;
 36    the department of agriculture for aquaculture; and the  department  of  health
 37    and welfare's division of environmental quality for all other activities.
 38        (6)  "Designated  use  or  designated  beneficial  use"  means  those uses
 39    assigned to waters as identified in the rules of the department whether or not
 40    the uses are being attained. The department may adopt subcategories of a use.
 41        (7)  "Director" means the director of the department of health and welfare
 42    environmental quality, or his or her designee.
 43        (8)  "Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, emitting,  escaping,  leach-
 44    ing,  or  disposing  of a pollutant into the waters of the state. For the pur-
 45    poses of this chapter, discharge shall not include surface water  runoff  from
 46    nonpoint sources or natural soil disturbing events.
 47        (9)  "Existing use" means those surface water uses actually attained on or
 48    after  November  28,  1975,  whether or not they are designated uses. Existing
 49    uses may form the basis for subcategories of designated uses.
 50        (10) "Full protection, full support, or  full  maintenance  of  designated
 51    beneficial uses of water"  means compliance with those levels of water quality
 52    criteria  listed in the appropriate rules of the department, or where there is
 53    no applicable numerical criteria, compliance with  the  reference  streams  or
                                                                        
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  1    conditions approved by the director in consultation with the appropriate basin
  2    advisory group.
  3        (11) "Lower  water  quality" means a measurable adverse change in a chemi-
  4    cal, physical, or biological parameter of water relevant to a designated bene-
  5    ficial use, and which can be expressed numerically.  Measurable adverse change
  6    is determined by a statistically significant difference between  sample  means
  7    using standard methods for analysis and statistical interpretation appropriate
  8    to  the parameter. Statistical significance is defined as the ninety-five per-
  9    cent (95%) confidence limit when significance is not otherwise defined for the
 10    parameter in standard methods or practices.
 11        (12) "National pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES)"  means  the
 12    point  source  permitting  program  established pursuant to section 402 of the
 13    federal clean water act.
 14        (13) "New nonpoint source activity" means a new nonpoint  source  activity
 15    or  a substantially modified existing nonpoint source activity on or adversely
 16    affecting an outstanding resource water which includes, but is not limited to,
 17    new silvicultural activities, new mining activities and substantial  modifica-
 18    tions  to an existing mining permit or approved plan, new recreational activi-
 19    ties and substantial modifications to existing  recreational  activities,  new
 20    residential  or  commercial  development that includes soil disturbing activi-
 21    ties, new grazing activities and substantial modifications to existing grazing
 22    activities, except that reissuance of existing  grazing  permits,  or  grazing
 23    activities  and  practices authorized under an existing permit, is not consid-
 24    ered a new activity. It does not include naturally occurring  events  such  as
 25    floods, landslides, and wildfire including prescribed natural fire.
 26        (14) "Nonpoint  source activities" includes grazing, crop production, sil-
 27    viculture, log storage or rafting, construction,  mining,  recreation,  septic
 28    systems, runoff from storms and other weather related events and other activi-
 29    ties  not subject to regulation under the federal national pollutant discharge
 30    elimination system. Nonpoint source activities on waters  designated  as  out-
 31    standing  resource  waters  do not include issuance of water rights permits or
 32    licenses, allocation of water rights, operation  of  diversions,  or  impound-
 33    ments.
 34        (15) "Nonpoint  source runoff" means water which may carry pollutants from
 35    nonpoint source activities into the waters of the state.
 36        (16) "Outstanding resource water" means a  high  quality  water,  such  as
 37    water  of  national  and  state parks and wildlife refuges and water of excep-
 38    tional recreational or ecological significance, which has been  so  designated
 39    by  the  legislature. It constitutes an outstanding national or state resource
 40    that requires protection from point source and nonpoint source activities that
 41    may lower water quality.
 42        (17) "Person" means any individual, association, partnership, firm, joint
 43    stock company, joint venture, trust, estate, political subdivision, public  or
 44    private  corporation,  state  or  federal  governmental  department, agency or
 45    instrumentality, or any legal entity, which is recognized by law as  the  sub-
 46    ject of rights and duties.
 47        (18) "Point  source" means any discernible, confined, and discrete convey-
 48    ance including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit,
 49    well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal  feeding
 50    operation,  or  vessel  or other floating craft, from which pollutants are, or
 51    may be, discharged. This term does not include  return  flows  from  irrigated
 52    agriculture,  discharges  from dams and hydroelectric generating facilities or
 53    any source or activity considered a nonpoint source by definition.
 54        (19) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid  waste,  incinerator  residue,
 55    sewage,  garbage,  sewage  sludge, munitions, chemical waste, biological mate-
                                                                        
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  1    rials, radioactive materials, heat,  wrecked  or  discarded  equipment,  rock,
  2    sand,  silt,  cellar  dirt;  and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste,
  3    gases entrained in  water;  or  other  materials  which,  when  discharged  or
  4    released  to water in excessive quantities cause or contribute to water pollu-
  5    tion. Provided however, biological materials shall not include live  or  occa-
  6    sional  dead  fish  that  may accidentally escape into the waters of the state
  7    from aquaculture facilities.
  8        (20) "Reference stream or condition" means one (1) of the following:
  9        (a)  The minimum biological, physical and chemical conditions necessary to
 10        fully support the designated beneficial uses; or
 11        (b)  A water body representing natural conditions with  few  impacts  from
 12        human activities and which are representative of the highest level of sup-
 13        port attainable in the basin; or
 14        (c)  A  water body representing minimum conditions necessary to fully sup-
 15        port the designated beneficial uses.
 16    In highly mineralized areas or in the absence of  such  reference  streams  or
 17    water  bodies, the director, in consultation with the basin advisory group and
 18    the technical advisers to it, may define  appropriate  hypothetical  reference
 19    conditions  or  may  use  monitoring  data specific to the site in question to
 20    determine conditions in which the beneficial uses are fully supported.
 21        (21) "Short-term or temporary activity" means an activity which is limited
 22    in scope and is expected to have only  minimal  impact  on  water  quality  as
 23    determined  by  the  director. Short-term or temporary activities include, but
 24    are not limited to, maintenance of existing structures, limited road and trail
 25    reconstruction, soil stabilization measures, and  habitat  enhancement  struc-
 26    tures.
 27        (22) "Silviculture"   means   those   activities   associated   with   the
 28    regeneration,  growing  and  harvesting of trees and timber including, but not
 29    limited to, disposal of logging slash, preparing sites for new stands of trees
 30    to be either planted or allowed to regenerate through natural means, road con-
 31    struction and road maintenance, drainage of surface water which inhibits  tree
 32    growth or logging operations, fertilization, application of herbicides or pes-
 33    ticides, all logging operations, and all forest management techniques employed
 34    to enhance the growth of stands of trees or timber.
 35        (23) "Soil conservation commission" means an agency of state government as
 36    created in section 22-2718, Idaho Code.
 37        (24) "Soil  conservation  district" means an entity of state government as
 38    defined in section 22-2717, Idaho Code.
 39        (25) "State" means the state of Idaho.
 40        (26) "State water quality management plan" means the state management plan
 41    developed and updated by the department in accordance with sections 205,  208,
 42    and 303 of the federal clean water act.
 43        (27) "Total  maximum  daily load (TMDL)" means a plan for a water body not
 44    fully supporting designated beneficial uses and includes the sum of the  indi-
 45    vidual  wasteload allocations for point sources, load allocations for nonpoint
 46    sources, and natural background levels of the pollutant  impacting  the  water
 47    body. Pollutant allocations established through TMDLs shall be at a level nec-
 48    essary  to implement the applicable water quality standards for the identified
 49    pollutants with seasonal variations and a margin  of  safety  to  account  for
 50    uncertainty  concerning  the  relationship  between  the pollutant loading and
 51    water quality standards.
 52        (28) "Waters or water body" means all the accumulations of surface  water,
 53    natural  and artificial, public and private, or parts thereof which are wholly
 54    or partially within, flow through or border upon this state. For the  purposes
 55    of this chapter, water bodies shall not include municipal or industrial waste-
                                                                        
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  1    water  treatment or storage structures or private reservoirs, the operation of
  2    which has no effect on waters of the state.
  3        (29) "Water pollution" is such alteration of the thermal,  chemical,  bio-
  4    logical  or  radioactive  properties  of any waters of the state, or such dis-
  5    charge or release of any contaminant into the waters of the state as  will  or
  6    is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful or detrimental or
  7    injurious  to  public  health,  safety  or welfare or to domestic, commercial,
  8    industrial, recreational, aesthetic or other legitimate uses or to  livestock,
  9    wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life.
 10        (30) "Watersheds" means the land area from which water flows into a stream
 11    or  other body of water which drains the area.  For the purposes of this chap-
 12    ter, the area of watersheds shall be recommended by the basin  advisory  group
 13    described in section 39-3613, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 14        SECTION  32.  That Section 39-3613, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 15    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 16        39-3613.  CREATION OF BASIN ADVISORY GROUPS. (1) The director, in  consul-
 17    tation with the designated agencies, shall name, for each of the state's major
 18    river  basins, no less than one (1) basin advisory group which shall generally
 19    advise the director on water quality objectives for each basin and work  in  a
 20    cooperative  manner  with  the director to achieve these objectives. Each such
 21    group shall establish by majority vote, operating procedures to guide the work
 22    of the group. Members shall be  compensated  pursuant  to  section  59-509(c),
 23    Idaho  Code.  The membership of each basin advisory group shall be representa-
 24    tive of the industries and interests directly affected by  the  implementation
 25    of  water quality programs within the basin and each member of the group shall
 26    either reside within the basin or  represent  persons  with  a  real  property
 27    interest  within the basin. Recognized groups representing those industries or
 28    interests in the basin may nominate members of the group to the director. Each
 29    basin advisory group named by the director shall reflect a balanced  represen-
 30    tation  of  the interests in the basin and shall, where appropriate, include a
 31    representative from each of the following: agriculture,  mining,  nonmunicipal
 32    point  source  discharge  permittees, forest products, local government, live-
 33    stock, Indian tribes (for areas within  reservation  boundaries),  water-based
 34    recreation,  and environmental interests. In addition, the director shall name
 35    one (1) person to represent the public at large who  may  reside  outside  the
 36    basin.   Members  named  to the basin advisory groups shall, in the opinion of
 37    the director, have demonstrated interest or expertise which will be of benefit
 38    to the work of the basin advisory group. The director may also name as may  be
 39    needed  those who have expertise  necessary to assist in the work of the basin
 40    advisory group who shall serve as technical nonvoting advisers  to  the  basin
 41    advisory group.
 42        (2)  The  governor  shall  establish a commission to be known as the Coeur
 43    d'Alene River basin commission whose membership is stated below for the  Coeur
 44    d'Alene River basin, including the north and south forks of the Coeur d' Alene
 45    River,  the  main  stem of the Coeur d'Alene River, Lake Coeur d'Alene and the
 46    Spokane River to replace and fulfill the duties of the  basin  advisory  group
 47    and  the  watershed  advisory group for those rivers and Lake Coeur d'Alene as
 48    stated in this section and sections 39-3614 through 39-3616,  Idaho  Code,  as
 49    these  duties related to heavy metal impacts in the Coeur d'Alene River basin.
 50    At the discretion of the governor, the commission  may  be  asked  to  perform
 51    duties  other  than those specified in sections 39-3613 through 39-3616, Idaho
 52    Code.  For duties related to sections 39-3613 through 39-3616, Idaho Code, the
 53    commission shall report to the director. For all  other  duties  assigned  the
                                                                        
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  1    commission  by  the governor, the commission shall report to the governor, the
  2    speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore  of  the
  3    senate.  The  governor  shall appoint the following members of the commission:
  4    one (1) representative of the governor; one (1) representative of the division
  5    department of environmental quality; of the department of health and  welfare;
  6    one (1) representative of the department of lands; one (1) representative each
  7    of  the  county  governments  of  Benewah county, Kootenai county and Shoshone
  8    county; one (1) representative of the trustees established under  the  settle-
  9    ment  agreement  of May 3, 1986, entered in State of Idaho v. Bunker Hill Co.,
 10    No. 83-3161 (D. Idaho); two (2) representatives of the citizen's advisory com-
 11    mittee of the Coeur d'Alene basin restoration project; one (1)  representative
 12    of  the  mining  industry; and one (1) representative of other affected indus-
 13    tries.
 14        In addition to the governor's appointees, the commission  shall  have  the
 15    following  representatives appointed: one (1) representative of the U.S. envi-
 16    ronmental protection agency appointed by the agency; one (1) representative of
 17    the U.S. department of agriculture and the U.S. department of interior  to  be
 18    appointed  jointly  by those agencies; and one (1) representative of the Coeur
 19    d'Alene tribe appointed by the tribe. The term of a member of  the  commission
 20    shall  be  three (3) years. The governor may remove at his discretion any mem-
 21    bers appointed by him. The commission shall operate by a simple majority  vote
 22    of  the members of the commission. The members of the commission shall elect a
 23    chairperson annually from the members of the commission. Members of  the  com-
 24    mission  who  are not state employees shall be compensated as provided in sec-
 25    tion 59-509(b), Idaho Code, if they are not otherwise  being  compensated  for
 26    travel costs and per diem for serving on the commission.
                                                                        
 27        SECTION  33.  That Section 39-3617, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 28    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 29        39-3617.  DESIGNATION OF  OUTSTANDING  RESOURCE  WATERS.  Any  person  may
 30    request,  in writing to the board of health and welfare environmental quality,
 31    that a stream segment may be considered  for  designation  as  an  outstanding
 32    resource water. The board shall recommend to the legislature those stream seg-
 33    ments  the  board proposes for designation as outstanding resource waters. The
 34    legislature shall determine by law which such stream segments to designate  as
 35    outstanding  resource  waters. Stream segments so designated shall be included
 36    in a list of outstanding resource waters to be compiled  and  updated  by  the
 37    department  of health and welfare environmental quality in its rules governing
 38    water quality standards. Interim status or special protection   shall  not  be
 39    provided  to streams recommended by the board prior to legislative designation
 40    as an outstanding resource water. No state agency shall delay actions, or deny
 41    or delay the processing or approval of any permit for a nonpoint source activ-
 42    ity based on nomination  of  a  segment  for  designation  as  an  outstanding
 43    resource water, or while the legislature is considering such designation.
                                                                        
 44        SECTION  34.  That Section 39-3620, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 45    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 46        39-3620.  APPROVAL  PROVISIONS  FOR  BEST  MANAGEMENT  PRACTICES  FOR  NEW
 47    NONPOINT SOURCE ACTIVITIES ON OR AFFECTING  OUTSTANDING  RESOURCE  WATERS.  No
 48    person may conduct a new nonpoint source activity on or affecting an outstand-
 49    ing resource water, except for a short-term or temporary activity as set forth
 50    in  section 39-3602, Idaho Code, prior to approval by the designated agency as
 51    provided in this section.
                                                                        
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  1        (1)  Within six (6) months of designation of an outstanding resource water
  2    by the legislature, the designated agency shall develop best management  prac-
  3    tices for reasonably foreseeable new nonpoint source activities. In developing
  4    best management practices the designated agencies shall:
  5        (a)  Solicit  technical  advice  from state and federal agencies, research
  6        institutions, and universities and consult with affected landowners,  land
  7        managers, operators, and the public; and
  8        (b)  Shall  assure that all public participation processes required by law
  9        have been completed, but if no public participation process is required by
 10        law, will require public notification and the opportunity to comment; and
 11        (c)  Recommend proposed best management practices to the board  of  health
 12        and welfare environmental quality.
 13        (2)  The  board of health and welfare environmental quality and designated
 14    agencies shall adopt the proposed best management practices that are  in  com-
 15    pliance  with the rules and regulations governing water quality standards, and
 16    based on the  recommendations  of  the  designated  agency  and  the  comments
 17    received during the public participation process;
 18        (3)  After  adoption, these best management practices will be known as the
 19    outstanding resource water best management practices and will be published  by
 20    the  designated  agency.  Outstanding  resource water approved best management
 21    practices will be reviewed and revised where needed by the  designated  agency
 22    every  four (4) years in consultation with the department, landowners, federal
 23    managers, operators and the public to determine conformance with objectives of
 24    this act chapter;
 25        (4)  Following adoption  of  best  management  practices,  the  designated
 26    agency  shall  require implementation of applicable outstanding resource water
 27    best management practices which will assure that water quality of an outstand-
 28    ing resource water is not lowered;
 29        (5)  Where outstanding resource water best management practices  have  not
 30    been  adopted as set forth in subsections (1) through (4) of this section, the
 31    designated agency shall:
 32        (a)  Assure that all public participation processes required by  law  have
 33        been completed, but if no public participation process is required by law,
 34        the  designated  agency  shall  provide for public notification of the new
 35        activity and the opportunity to comment;
 36        (b)  Determine that the site-specific best management  practices  selected
 37        for a new nonpoint source activity are designed to ensure that water qual-
 38        ity of the outstanding resource water is not lowered; and
 39        (c)  Provide  for review by the department that the activity is in compli-
 40        ance with rules and regulations governing water quality standards.
 41        (6)  When the applicable outstanding resource water best management  prac-
 42    tices  are  applied,  the  landowner, land manager, or operator applying those
 43    practices will be in compliance with the provisions of this  act  chapter.  In
 44    the  event  water quality is lowered, the outstanding resource water best man-
 45    agement practices will be revised within a time frame established by the  des-
 46    ignated agency to ensure water quality is restored.
                                                                        
 47        SECTION  35.  That Section 39-3624, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 48    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 49        39-3624.  DECLARATION OF POLICY -- DESIGNATION OF DIRECTOR.  The  legisla-
 50    ture,  recognizing  that water is one (1) of the state's most valuable natural
 51    resources, has adopted water quality and public drinking water  standards  and
 52    authorized  the director of the department of health and welfare environmental
 53    quality  to implement these standards. In order to provide and maintain  maxi-
                                                                        
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  1    mum  water  quality  in  the  state  for  domestic,  industrial,  agricultural
  2    (irrigation  and stockwatering), mining, manufacturing, electric power genera-
  3    tion, municipal, fish culture, artificial ground water  recharge,  transporta-
  4    tion  and recreational purposes and to provide safe drinking water to the pub-
  5    lic at the earliest possible date, and to conform to the expressed  intent  of
  6    congress to abate pollution of ground waters, streams and lakes and to provide
  7    safe  drinking  water  to  the public, the legislature declares the purpose of
  8    this act chapter is to enhance and preserve the quality and value of the water
  9    resources of the state of Idaho and to  assist  in  the  prevention,  control,
 10    abatement  and  monitoring  of water pollution. In consequence of the benefits
 11    resulting to the public health, welfare and economy it is hereby  declared  to
 12    be  the  policy  of the state of Idaho to protect this natural resource and to
 13    provide safe drinking water to the public by assisting in monitoring, prevent-
 14    ing and controlling water pollution; to support and aid technical and planning
 15    research leading to the prevention and control of water pollution; to  provide
 16    financial and technical assistance to municipalities and other agencies in the
 17    abatement  and  prevention  of  water  pollution; and to provide financial and
 18    technical assistance to community water  systems  and  nonprofit  noncommunity
 19    water  systems.  The director of the department of health and welfare environ-
 20    mental quality shall administer this act chapter and nothing herein  shall  be
 21    construed  as  impairing or in any manner affecting the statutory authority or
 22    jurisdiction of municipalities in providing domestic water, sewage  collection
 23    and treatment.
                                                                        
 24        SECTION  36.  That Section 39-3625, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 25    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 26        39-3625.  DEFINITIONS. (1) "Sewage treatment works" means any facility for
 27    the purpose of collecting, treating, neutralizing  or  stabilizing  sewage  or
 28    industrial  wastes of a liquid nature, including treatment by disposal plants,
 29    the necessary intercepting, outfall and outlet sewers, pumping stations  inte-
 30    gral  to  such  plants  or sewers, equipment and furnishings thereof and their
 31    appurtenances.
 32        (2)  "Community water system" means a public drinking  water  system  that
 33    serves  at least fifteen (15) service connections used by year-round residents
 34    or serves at least twenty-five (25) year-round residents.
 35        (3)  "Nonprofit noncommunity water system" means a public  drinking  water
 36    system  that is not a community water system and is governed by section 501 of
 37    the Internal Revenue Code and includes, but is not limited to: state agencies,
 38    municipalities and nonprofit organizations such as churches and schools.
 39        (4)  "Construction" means the erection, building, acquisition, alteration,
 40    reconstruction, improvement or extension of sewage  treatment  works  or  best
 41    management practices, preliminary planning to determine the economic and engi-
 42    neering feasibility of sewage treatment works, community public water systems,
 43    nonprofit  noncommunity public water systems or best management practices, the
 44    engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic investigations, reports
 45    and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, proce-
 46    dures, and other action necessary in  the  construction  of  sewage  treatment
 47    works,  community  public  water  systems, nonprofit noncommunity public water
 48    systems or best management practices, and the inspection  and  supervision  of
 49    the  construction  of  sewage treatment works, community public water systems,
 50    nonprofit noncommunity public water systems or best management practices.
 51        (5)  "Eligible construction project" means a project for  construction  of
 52    sewage treatment works, community public water systems, nonprofit noncommunity
 53    public  water  systems or for a project for the application of best management
                                                                        
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  1    practices as set forth in the approved state water quality  plan,  in  related
  2    project areas:
  3        (a)  For  which approval of the Idaho board of health and welfare environ-
  4        mental quality  is required under section 39-118, Idaho Code;
  5        (b)  Which is, in the judgment of the Idaho board of  health  and  welfare
  6        environmental  quality,  eligible for water pollution abatement assistance
  7        or for provision of safe drinking water, whether or not federal funds  are
  8        then available therefor;
  9        (c)  Which conforms with applicable rules of the Idaho board of health and
 10        welfare environmental quality;
 11        (d)  Which  is,  in  the judgment of the Idaho board of health and welfare
 12        environmental quality, necessary for the  accomplishment  of  the  state's
 13        policy of water purity as stated in section 39-3601, Idaho Code; and
 14        (e)  Which  is  needed,  in  the judgment of the Idaho board of health and
 15        welfare environmental quality, to correct existing water  pollution  prob-
 16        lems  or  public health hazards and to provide reasonable reserve capacity
 17        to prevent future water pollution problems or public health hazards or  to
 18        provide for safe drinking water.
 19        (6)  "Municipality" means any county, city, special service district, non-
 20    profit corporation or other governmental entity having authority to dispose of
 21    sewage,  industrial  wastes,  or other wastes, or to provide for safe drinking
 22    water, any Indian tribe or authorized Indian tribal organization, or any  com-
 23    bination  of  two  (2)  or more of the foregoing acting jointly, in connection
 24    with an eligible project.
 25        (7)  "Board" means the Idaho board of  health  and  welfare  environmental
 26    quality.
 27        (8)  "Department"  means  the Idaho department of health and welfare envi-
 28    ronmental quality.
 29        (9)  "Director" means the director of the Idaho department of  health  and
 30    welfare environmental quality.
 31        (10) "Nondomestic  wastewater" means wastewater whose source of contamina-
 32    tion is not principally human excreta.
 33        (11) "Best management practice" means practices,  techniques  or  measures
 34    identified    in  the  state water quality plan which are determined to be the
 35    most effective, practicable means of preventing or reducing pollutants  gener-
 36    ated from nonpoint sources to a level compatible with water quality goals.
 37        (12) "Nonpoint  source  pollution"  means  water pollution that comes from
 38    many varied, nonspecific and diffused sources and can be  categorized  by  the
 39    general land disturbing activity that causes the pollution.
 40        (13) "Training  program"  means any course of training established to pro-
 41    vide sewage treatment plant operating personnel and public drinking water sys-
 42    tem personnel with increased knowledge to improve their ability to operate and
 43    maintain sewage treatment works and public drinking water systems.
                                                                        
 44        SECTION 37.  That Section 39-3626, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 45    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 46        39-3626.  AUTHORIZATION  OF GRANTS AND LOANS -- DESIGNATION OF ADMINISTER-
 47    ING AGENCY -- RESERVATION OF FUNDS FOR  OPERATIONS  --  CRITERIA  --  PRIORITY
 48    PROJECTS  -- ELIGIBLE PROJECTS. (1) The state of Idaho is hereby authorized to
 49    make grants and loans at or below market interest rates, as funds  are  avail-
 50    able,  to  any municipality to assist said municipality in the construction of
 51    sewage treatment works,  to  community  public  water  systems  and  nonprofit
 52    noncommunity  public  water  systems. The state of Idaho is hereby also autho-
 53    rized to make loans at or below market interest rates for  the  implementation
                                                                        
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  1    of  a  management  program  established under section 319 of the federal water
  2    pollution control act, as amended.
  3        (2)  The Idaho board of health and welfare environmental  quality  through
  4    the department of health and welfare environmental quality shall be the agency
  5    for  administration  of  funds  authorized  for grants or loans under this act
  6    chapter, and may reserve up to four percent (4%) of the moneys accruing  annu-
  7    ally  to  the  water  pollution  control and wastewater facility loan accounts
  8    funds to be appropriated annually for the purpose of operating the water qual-
  9    ity programs established pursuant to this chapter. The board may also  reserve
 10    up  to six percent (6%) of the moneys accruing annually to the water pollution
 11    control account fund to be appropriated annually for the purpose of conducting
 12    water quality studies including monitoring.
 13        (3)  In allocating state construction grants  and  loans  under  this  act
 14    chapter,  the  Idaho  board  of health and welfare environmental quality shall
 15    give consideration to water pollution  control  needs,  protection  of  public
 16    health and provision of safe drinking water.
 17        (4)  Pursuant to subsection (3) of this section, the Idaho board of health
 18    and welfare environmental quality shall establish an integrated list of prior-
 19    ity  municipal  sewage facility and nonpoint source pollution control projects
 20    and a list of priority community and nonprofit noncommunity public water  sys-
 21    tems.
                                                                        
 22        SECTION  38.  That Section 39-3627, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 23    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 24        39-3627.  PAYMENTS BY STATE BOARD  OF  HEALTH  AND  WELFARE  ENVIRONMENTAL
 25    QUALITY   --   CONTRACTS  WITH  MUNICIPALITIES  AND  COMMUNITY  AND  NONPROFIT
 26    NONCOMMUNITY PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS -- RULES -- APPROVAL OF ATTORNEY GENERAL  --
 27    AUDIT  OF  PAYMENTS.  (1)  The Idaho board of health and welfare environmental
 28    quality may make payments not to exceed ninety  percent (90%) of the estimated
 29    reasonable cost of an eligible construction project funded by  a  grant.  Pay-
 30    ments  may  be made which are equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the esti-
 31    mated reasonable cost of an eligible construction project funded by a loan.
 32        (2)  The Idaho board of health and welfare environmental quality  may,  in
 33    the  name  of the state of Idaho, enter into contracts with municipalities and
 34    community and nonprofit noncommunity public water systems and any such munici-
 35    pality and community and nonprofit noncommunity public water system may  enter
 36    into a contract with the Idaho board of health and welfare environmental qual-
 37    ity,  concerning eligible construction projects. Any such contract may include
 38    such provisions as may be agreed  upon  by  the  parties  thereto,  and  shall
 39    include, in substance, the following provisions:
 40        (a)  An  estimate  of  the reasonable cost of the project as determined by
 41        the Idaho board of health and welfare environmental quality.
 42        (b)  An  agreement  by  the  municipality  or  community   and   nonprofit
 43        noncommunity  public drinking water system, binding for the actual service
 44        life of the sewage treatment works or the actual service life of the  com-
 45        munity and nonprofit noncommunity public drinking water system:
 46             (i)    To  proceed  expeditiously  with, and complete, the project in
 47             accordance with plans approved  pursuant  to  section  39-118,  Idaho
 48             Code.
 49             (ii)   To  commence operation of the sewage treatment works or commu-
 50             nity and nonprofit noncommunity public drinking water system on  com-
 51             pletion  of  the project, and not to discontinue operation or dispose
 52             of the sewage treatment works or community and nonprofit noncommunity
 53             public drinking water system without the approval  of  the  board  of
                                                                        
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  1             health and welfare environmental quality.
  2             (iii)  To  operate  and maintain the sewage treatment works or commu-
  3             nity and nonprofit  noncommunity  public  drinking  water  system  in
  4             accordance with applicable provisions and rules of the board.
  5             (iv)   To  make  available  on an equitable basis the services of the
  6             sewage treatment works or community and nonprofit noncommunity public
  7             drinking water system to the residents and commercial and  industrial
  8             establishments of areas it was designed to serve.
  9             (v)    To  provide for the payment of the municipality's share or the
 10             community and nonprofit noncommunity public drinking  water  system's
 11             share  of  the  cost  of  the project when the project is built using
 12             grant funds.
 13             (vi)   To develop and to secure the approval  of  the  department  of
 14             plans for the operation and maintenance of the sewage treatment works
 15             or community and nonprofit noncommunity public drinking water system;
 16             and  of  plans and programs for the recovery of the capital costs and
 17             operating expenses of the works or system.
 18             (vii)  To allow the board to make loans of up to one hundred  percent
 19             (100%)  and  supplemental grants based upon financial capability to a
 20             municipality for the estimated reasonable cost of an  eligible  proj-
 21             ect, which may include treatment of nondomestic wastewater.
 22             (viii) To  provide  for  the accumulation of funds through the use of
 23             taxing powers, through charges made  for  services,  through  revenue
 24             bonds,  or  otherwise,  for the purposes of: (1) capital replacement,
 25             (2) future improvement, betterment, and extension of such works occa-
 26             sioned by increased wastewater loadings on the works, and (3)  estab-
 27             lishing  a fund dedicated solely to repayment of principal and inter-
 28             est of loans made subsequent to this chapter.
 29             (ix)   To commence annual principal and interest payments  not  later
 30             than one (1) year from the date construction is completed and to pro-
 31             vide  for full amortization of loans not later than twenty (20) years
 32             from the date project construction is completed.
 33        (c)  The terms under which the Idaho board of health and welfare  environ-
 34        mental  quality may unilaterally terminate the contract and/or seek repay-
 35        ment from the municipality or community and nonprofit noncommunity  public
 36        drinking  water  system  of sums already paid pursuant to the contract for
 37        noncompliance by the municipality with the terms  and  conditions  of  the
 38        contract and the provisions of this chapter.
 39        (3)  The  board  of  health  and welfare environmental quality may, in the
 40    name of the state of Idaho, enter into loan contracts with applicants for  the
 41    implementation  of  nonpoint source pollution control programs. To be eligible
 42    for a loan the project proposed by an applicant must be  consistent  with  the
 43    state  nonpoint  source  management plan. Up to five percent (5%) of the total
 44    state revolving loan fund may be used for nonpoint  source  pollution  control
 45    projects which demonstrate a benefit/nexus to a municipality.
 46        D.(4)  The board may adopt rules necessary for the making and enforcing of
 47    contracts hereunder and establishing procedures to be followed in applying for
 48    state  construction  grants  or  loans or training grants herein authorized as
 49    shall be necessary for the effective administration of the  grants  and  loans
 50    program.
 51        (45)E.  All  contracts entered into pursuant to this section shall be sub-
 52    ject to approval by the attorney general as to form. All payments by the state
 53    pursuant to such contracts shall be made after audit and upon warrant as  pro-
 54    vided by law on vouchers approved by the director.
                                                                        
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  1        SECTION  39.  That Section 39-3631, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  2    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  3        39-3631.  APPROPRIATION OF WASTEWATER FACILITY LOAN ACCOUNT FUND  --  PUR-
  4    POSE  OF  CHAPTER.  Moneys  in  the  wastewater facility loan account fund are
  5    hereby perpetually appropriated for the following purposes:
  6        (1.)  To provide loans and other forms of financial assistance  authorized
  7    under  title  VI  of the federal water quality act of 1987, P.L. 100-4, to any
  8    municipality for construction of sewage treatment works.
  9        (2.)  To provide funds, subject to annual federal and state  appropriation
 10    and  applicable  federal limitations, for operation of the wastewater facility
 11    loan program by the department of health and welfare environmental quality.
                                                                        
 12        SECTION 40.  That Section 39-3632, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 13    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 14        39-3632.  GRANTS  AND LOANS FOR DESIGN, PLANNING OR CONSTRUCTION -- LIMITS
 15    ON AMOUNT OF GRANTS AND LOANS. (1) The board of health and welfare environmen-
 16    tal quality may divide financial assistance for eligible construction projects
 17    into separate grants, loans or a combination  of  grants  and  loans  for  the
 18    design,  planning,  and construction stages of project development. The making
 19    of a grant or loan for early stages of a project does not obligate  the  state
 20    to make a grant or loans for later stages of the same project.
 21        (2)  The  board  may  make grants from the water pollution control account
 22    fund; provided, that the projected payments for such grants  would  not  cause
 23    the  projected balance in the account fund to fall below zero at any time. All
 24    grant payments shall be subject to the availability of moneys in  the  account
 25    fund.
 26        (3)  The  board  may  make loans from the wastewater facility loan account
 27    fund, provided that the projected payments for such loans would not cause  the
 28    projected balance in the account fund to fall below zero at any time. All loan
 29    payments shall be subject to the availability of moneys in the account fund.
                                                                        
 30        SECTION  41.  That Section 39-3633, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 31    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 32        39-3633.  WATER POLLUTION CONTROL BONDS.  A.(1)  Water  pollution  control
 33    bonds, as provided by section 5, article VIII of the constitution of the state
 34    of  Idaho,  shall be authorized by resolution of the state board of health and
 35    welfare environmental quality. The bonds may be issued  in  one  (1)  or  more
 36    series,  may bear such date or dates, may be in such denomination or denomina-
 37    tions, may mature at such time or times, may mature in such amount or amounts,
 38    may bear interest at the most advantageous rate  or  rates  available  to  the
 39    state  at  the time offered, payable semiannually, may be in such form, either
 40    coupon or registered, may carry such registration and such  conversion  privi-
 41    leges,  may  be executed in such manner, may be payable in such medium of pay-
 42    ment, at such place or places, may be subject to  such  terms  of  redemption,
 43    with  or without premium, as such resolution or other resolutions may provide.
 44    The bonds, if sold to a federal agency, may be sold at a private sale  at  not
 45    less  than  par and accrued interest, without advertising the same at competi-
 46    tive bidding. If not sold to a federal agency, the bonds shall  be  sold  pub-
 47    licly  in  a  manner  to  be provided by the state board of health and welfare
 48    environmental quality. The bonds shall be fully negotiable within the  meaning
 49    and for all purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code.
 50        B.(2)  The moneys derived from the sale of any bonds shall be deposited in
                                                                        
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  1    the  state  treasury to the credit of the water pollution control fund for the
  2    purposes of that fund.
  3        C.(3)  All bonds issued pursuant to this act chapter shall be  obligations
  4    of  the  state  and  shall be payable in accordance with the terms of this act
  5    chapter and the provisions of section 5, article VIII of the  constitution  of
  6    the state of Idaho.
                                                                        
  7        SECTION  42.  That Section 39-3635, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  8    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  9        39-3635.  COTTAGE SITE LEASES -- REQUIREMENTS --  CONSTRUCTION  OF  SEWAGE
 10    DISPOSAL  FACILITIES -- CONNECTION TO WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT SYSTEMS -- PAY-
 11    MENT OF CHARGES -- NOTIFICATION OF DEFAULTS -- SATISFACTION  OF  REQUIREMENTS.
 12    (1)  After  the  effective  date of this act sections 39-3634 through 39-3639,
 13    Idaho Code, all cottage site leases authorized by the  state  of  Idaho  shall
 14    require  that each lessee must construct, at his cost and expense, sewage dis-
 15    posal facilities, certified by the director of the department  of  health  and
 16    welfare environmental quality as adequate, as follows:
 17        (a)  For  all  new  cottage  or house construction completed after July 1,
 18        1971 on any cottage site the certificate shall be issued  prior  to  occu-
 19        pancy.
 20        (b)  Those  cottages  or houses existing on the cottage sites prior to the
 21        effective date of this act sections 39-3634 through 39-3639,  Idaho  Code,
 22        shall  meet  those standards required by the director of the department of
 23        health and welfare environmental quality for certification within two  (2)
 24        years  of the effective date of this act sections 39-3634 through 39-3639,
 25        Idaho Code, unless a public or private sewage collection or disposal  sys-
 26        tem  is  being  planned  or  constructed in which case the director of the
 27        department of health and welfare environmental quality  may  grant  exten-
 28        sions on a year by year basis but not exceed three (3) such extensions for
 29        any one (1) cottage site.
 30        (c)  Isolated dwellings on sites situated on mining, grazing or other sim-
 31        ilar  types of state land board leases shall not be affected unless within
 32        two hundred (200) yards of any flowing stream or a lake.
 33        (2)  Wherever any cottage site is located within the boundaries of a  dis-
 34    trict  organized for water or sewer purposes, or a combination thereof, pursu-
 35    ant to the provisions of chapter 32, title 42, Idaho  Code,  as  amended,  the
 36    cottage site lessee shall connect his property to the sewer system of the dis-
 37    trict  within sixty (60) days after written notice from the district so to do,
 38    provided, however, no cottage site lessee shall be compelled  to  connect  his
 39    property  with  such sewer system unless a service line is brought by the dis-
 40    trict to a point within two hundred (200) feet of his dwelling place. All cot-
 41    tage site leases hereafter issued shall require, as a condition of  acceptance
 42    thereof by the lessee, that the lessee will connect his property to a district
 43    sewer  system  as required in this subsection (2). With respect to all cottage
 44    site leases issued subsequent to July 1,  1970,  filing  with  the  department
 45    issuing  the  lease  of evidence of connection to the district sewer system as
 46    contemplated in this subsection (2) shall be conclusive evidence of compliance
 47    by the cottage site lessee with the requirements of  subsection  (1)  of  this
 48    section and of the provisions of the cottage site lease to provide sewage dis-
 49    posal  facilities at the expense of the cottage site lessee. Each cottage site
 50    lessee whose cottage site is subject to connection to a district sewer  system
 51    as required in this subsection (2) shall pay to the district to which the cot-
 52    tage  site  is  required to be connected, in a timely manner and when due, all
 53    connection fees and charges, all monthly rates, tolls and charges, as provided
                                                                        
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  1    by chapter 32, title 42, Idaho Code, as amended, and all special benefits pay-
  2    ments in lieu of tax payments provided for in subsection (3) of this section.
  3        (3)  Notwithstanding that title to a cottage site remains in the state  of
  4    Idaho,  each  cottage  site lessee shall pay to any district operating a sewer
  5    system to which the cottage site is connected as provided in subsection (2) of
  6    this section, each year in the same manner and at  the  same  time  as  county
  7    taxes  are paid and collected a sum of money in lieu of taxes equal to the sum
  8    which would have been paid had the cottage site been held  in  private  owner-
  9    ship,  hereinafter called special benefits payments. The special benefits pay-
 10    ments shall be computed by applying the millage levy of the  district  to  the
 11    cottage  site in the ordinary course to the assessed valuation of the property
 12    as determined by the county assessor of the county in which the  cottage  site
 13    is  located. No special benefits payments shall be imposed prior to January 1,
 14    1980. The cottage site lessee shall have such rights of protest, hearings  and
 15    appeals  with  respect  to  the  valuation of the cottage site for purposes of
 16    determining the special benefits payments as if such cottage site were held in
 17    private ownership.
 18        It shall be the duty of the county assessor to establish the value of each
 19    cottage site as compared to like property upon the request, in writing, of the
 20    district.
 21        (4)  Each water and sewer district shall immediately notify the department
 22    issuing a cottage site lease of the failure of any cottage site lessee to con-
 23    nect to the district sewer system, or to pay any  connection  fee  or  charge,
 24    monthly  rate,  toll  or  charge,  or  any   special benefits payments, all as
 25    required or provided for in subsection (3) of this section. Any such notifica-
 26    tion shall set forth the amount of any such fees, charges  or  payments  which
 27    are delinquent.
 28        (5)  Approval,  pursuant  to the provisions of section 39-118, Idaho Code,
 29    by the department of health and welfare environmental quality of the plans and
 30    specifications of a sewer system to  be  constructed,  acquired,  improved  or
 31    extended  by  a  water  and sewer district shall, as to all cottage sites con-
 32    nected to the district sewer  system,  satisfy  the  requirements  of  section
 33    39-3637, Idaho Code.
 34        (6)  The state of Idaho, its boards, agencies or departments, shall not be
 35    liable,  directly  or indirectly, for any connection fees and charges, monthly
 36    rates, tolls and charges, or special benefits payments charged to cottage site
 37    lessees beyond those fees or payments collected from new lessees  pursuant  to
 38    section  58-304A, Idaho Code, and placed in the revolving fund created by sec-
 39    tion 58-141A, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 40        SECTION 43.  That Section 39-3637, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 41    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 42        39-3637.  STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY -- RULES
 43    --  INSPECTION.  The  state  board of health and welfare environmental quality
 44    shall adopt reasonable rules and standards for the installation and  operation
 45    of  cottage  site  sewage  treatment  facilities,  and  shall provide adequate
 46    inspection services so as not to delay unreasonably the  construction  of  any
 47    lessee.  Duplicate originals of all certificates issued by the director of the
 48    department of health and welfare environmental quality shall be filed with the
 49    director of the department issuing a cottage site lease.
 50        The director of the department of health and welfare environmental quality
 51    shall initiate on or before July 1, 1971, maintain a site by site inventory of
 52    such sewage disposal systems that may exist. The inventory shall ascertain:
 53        (a1)  If the existing system meets the  board  standards.  If  the  system
                                                                        
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  1    meets  all  standards and rules for cottage sewage disposal systems a certifi-
  2    cate shall be issued immediately.
  3        (b2)  If the system does not meet the board standards. In such  case,  the
  4    lessee shall be advised in writing of the actions necessary to meet the proper
  5    standards. A copy of such report shall be filed with the state agency granting
  6    the  lease.  The  modifications,  unless  specifically  exempted from the time
  7    limit, as provided in this act sections 39-3634 through 39-3637,  Idaho  Code,
  8    shall be completed within two (2) years of the date of the written notice.
                                                                        
  9        SECTION  44.  That Section 39-3638, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 10    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 11        39-3638.  FINAL DETERMINATION BY ISSUING  DEPARTMENT  AUTHORIZED.  In  the
 12    event  of  dispute, or unreasonable delay on the part of lessee or the depart-
 13    ment of health and welfare environmental quality,  the  department  issuing  a
 14    cottage  site  lease  may, upon notice and hearing, make a final determination
 15    consistent with control of water pollution and public health.
                                                                        
 16        SECTION 45.  That Section 39-4403, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 17    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 18        39-4403.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
 19        (1)  "Board"  means  the  Idaho  board of health and welfare environmental
 20    quality.
 21        (2)  "Commercial hazardous waste facility or  site"  means  any  hazardous
 22    waste  facility  whose primary business is the treatment, storage or disposal,
 23    for a fee or other consideration, of hazardous waste generated offsite by gen-
 24    erators other than the owner and operator of the facility.
 25        (3)  "Department" means the Idaho department of health and  welfare  envi-
 26    ronmental quality.
 27        (4)  "Director"  means  the director of the Idaho department of health and
 28    welfare environmental quality or the director's authorized agent.
 29        (5)  "Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection,  dumping,  spill-
 30    ing, leaking or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water so
 31    that such hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment
 32    or  be  emitted  into  the air or discharged into any waters, including ground
 33    waters.
 34        (6)  "Gate ton" means the weight, in tons  (2,000  pounds/ton),  of  waste
 35    material  received at a facility.  This weight does not include any subsequent
 36    changes to the weight resulting from the management of the waste by the facil-
 37    ity.
 38        (7)  "Generator" means any person, who by virtue of ownership, management,
 39    or control, is responsible for causing or allowing to be caused  the  creation
 40    of a hazardous waste.
 41        (8)  "Hazardous  waste" means a waste or combination of wastes of a solid,
 42    liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous form which, because of  its  quantity,
 43    concentration or characteristics (physical, chemical or biological) may:
 44        (a)  Cause  or  significantly  contribute  to  an increase in deaths or an
 45        increase in serious, irreversible or incapacitating reversible  illnesses;
 46        or
 47        (b)  Pose  a  substantial  threat to human health or to the environment if
 48        improperly treated, stored, disposed of, or managed. Such wastes  include,
 49        but  are  not limited to, materials which are toxic, corrosive, ignitible,
 50        or reactive, or materials which may have mutagenic, teratogenic, or carci-
 51        nogenic properties but do not  include  solid  or  dissolved  material  in
                                                                        
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  1        domestic  sewage,  or  solid  or  dissolved materials in irrigation return
  2        flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to national
  3        pollution discharge elimination system permits under the  Ffederal  Wwater
  4        Ppollution Ccontrol Aact, as amended, 33 U.S.C., Ssection 1251 et seq., or
  5        source,  special  nuclear,  or by-product byproduct material as defined by
  6        the Aatomic Eenergy Aact of 1954, as amended, 42 U.S.C., Ssection 2011  et
  7        seq.
  8        (9)  "Hazardous waste management" means the systematic control of the col-
  9    lection,  source  separation,  storage, treatment, transportation, processing,
 10    and disposal of hazardous wastes.
 11        (10) "Hazardous waste facility or site" means any property, structure,  or
 12    ancillary  equipment intended or used for the transportation, treatment, stor-
 13    age or disposal of hazardous wastes.
 14        (11) "Injection" means the subsurface emplacement of free liquids.
 15        (12) "Manifest" means a form used for identifying the  quantity,  composi-
 16    tion,  origin,  routing, waste identification code(s), and destination of haz-
 17    ardous waste during any transportation from the point  of  generation  to  the
 18    point of treatment, storage or disposal.
 19        (13) "Manifested waste" means waste which at the point of origin or gener-
 20    ation  is  required to be manifested for transportation in a manner similar to
 21    that of the federal uniform hazardous waste  manifest  or  by  other  manifest
 22    requirements  designed  to  assure   proper treatment, storage and disposal of
 23    such waste.
 24        (14) "PCB waste" means any waste or waste item which is  not  included  in
 25    the   definition   of   "hazardous  waste"  and  which  is  contaminated  with
 26    polychlorinated biphenyls.
 27        (15) "Person" means any individual, association, partnership, firm,  joint
 28    stock  company, trust, estate, political subdivision, public or private corpo-
 29    ration, state or federal governmental department, agency, or  instrumentality,
 30    or  any other legal entity which is recognized by law as the subject of rights
 31    and duties.
 32        (16) "RCRA" means the Rresource Cconservation and Rrecovery Aact  of  1976
 33    as amended from time to time.
 34        (17) "Restricted  hazardous  waste" means a waste or combination of wastes
 35    regulated as land disposal restricted pursuant to federal statutes and regula-
 36    tions, including 40 CFR part 268.
 37        (18) "Storage" means the containment of hazardous wastes, on  a  temporary
 38    basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal
 39    of such hazardous wastes.
 40        (19) "Transportation" means the movement of any hazardous waste to or from
 41    a hazardous waste facility or site.
 42        (20) "Transporter" means any person who transports a hazardous waste to or
 43    from a hazardous waste facility or site.
 44        (21) "Treatment"  means  any method, technique, or process, including neu-
 45    tralization, which is designed not to be an  integral  part  of  a  production
 46    process,  but  which  is  rather designed to change the physical, chemical, or
 47    biological character or composition of any hazardous waste prior to storage or
 48    final disposal so as to neutralize such waste or so as to  render  such  waste
 49    nonhazardous  or  less hazardous; safer to transport, store, or dispose of; or
 50    amenable for recovery, amenable for storage or reduced in  volume.  Such  term
 51    includes  any  activity  or processing designed to change the physical form or
 52    chemical composition of hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
 53        (22) "Waste" means any solid, semisolid, liquid or contained gaseous mate-
 54    rial for which no reasonable use or reuse is intended or which is intended  to
 55    be discarded.
                                                                        
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  1        SECTION  46.  That Section 39-4426, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  2    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  3        39-4426.  APPOINTMENT OF HEALTH INSPECTORS. (1) The department  of  health
  4    and  welfare environmental quality shall assign a sufficient number of employ-
  5    ees and equipment to inspect hazardous waste  facilities  or  sites  permitted
  6    under section 39-4409, Idaho Code, and located in Idaho where disposal of haz-
  7    ardous  waste  occurs for the purpose of assuring the protection of the health
  8    and safety of the public by monitoring the receipt and handling  of  hazardous
  9    wastes which have been transported by common carrier.
 10        (2)  All employees of the department designated pursuant to subsection (1)
 11    of  this  section  shall  alert proper authorities or peace officers regarding
 12    violations pursuant to this chapter, violations pursuant to  title  49,  Idaho
 13    Code,  and  violations to any rules issued pursuant to section 67-2901A, Idaho
 14    Code.
 15        (3)  All actions brought for violations of the provisions of this  chapter
 16    or rules promulgated pursuant thereto shall be brought as provided for in this
 17    chapter.  All  actions  brought  for violations of the provisions of title 49,
 18    Idaho Code, shall be brought as provided in that title.
                                                                        
 19        SECTION 47.  That Section 39-4428, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 20    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 21        39-4428.  COLLECTION  OF COMMERCIAL DISPOSAL FEES -- RETURNS. (1) The fees
 22    imposed under section 39-4427, Idaho Code, shall be due and payable in monthly
 23    installments by the owner, agent, employee,  or  operator  of  such  hazardous
 24    waste facility or site and remittance shall be made to the Idaho department of
 25    health and welfare environmental quality on or before the fifteenth day of the
 26    month  next succeeding the end of the monthly period in which the fee accrued.
 27    The owner, operator or designated employee or agent  of  the  hazardous  waste
 28    facility  or site, on or before the fifteenth day of the month, shall make out
 29    a return, upon such forms setting forth such information as the department may
 30    require, showing the amount of the fee for which the owner or operator of  the
 31    hazardous  waste  facility or site is liable for the preceding monthly period,
 32    and shall sign and transmit the same to the department, together with a remit-
 33    tance for such amount in the form required.
 34        (2)  The department may relieve any person or class of  persons  from  the
 35    obligation of filing monthly returns and may require the return to cover other
 36    reporting periods, but in no event shall returns be filed for a period greater
 37    than three (3) months.
                                                                        
 38        SECTION  48.  That Section 39-4429, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 39    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 40        39-4429.  BOOKS AND RECORDS TO BE PRESERVED --  ENTRY  AND  INSPECTION  BY
 41    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELFARE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. Every person or entity
 42    subject  to  the  imposition  of  the fees specified in section 39-4427, Idaho
 43    Code, shall keep complete and accurate records,  including  itemized  invoices
 44    and  manifests for federally regulated types and quantities of hazardous waste
 45    ultimately disposed of at a hazardous waste facility or  site  in  Idaho.  All
 46    books, documents and papers, computer tapes, discs, and other records required
 47    to  be  kept  by this section shall be preserved for a period of at least five
 48    (5) years from the date of the records or the date of the entries appearing in
 49    the records, unless the department in writing, authorized their destruction or
 50    disposal at an earlier date. For purposes of this act  chapter,  at  any  time
                                                                        
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  1    during  usual  business  hours,  the  department  or duly authorized agents or
  2    employees, may enter any place of business of the owner or operator of a  haz-
  3    ardous  waste facility or site where hazardous wastes are disposed and inspect
  4    the premises, the records required to be kept under this chapter, and the haz-
  5    ardous wastes or other chemicals contained therein, to  determine  whether  or
  6    not all the applicable provisions of sections 39-4427 and 39-4428, Idaho Code,
  7    are  being  fully  complied  with.  Trade  secret  information obtained by the
  8    department under the provisions of this section shall be treated in  the  same
  9    manner  as such information obtained under section 39-4411, Idaho Code. If the
 10    department, or any of its  authorized  agents  or  employees  is  unreasonably
 11    denied  free  access  or is unreasonably hindered or interfered with in making
 12    the examination of a hazardous waste  facility  or  site,  that  hindrance  or
 13    interference  shall  constitute  grounds  for  suspension or revocation of the
 14    facility or site's permit by the director of the department of health and wel-
 15    fare environmental quality under subsection  (b)  of  section  39-4413,  Idaho
 16    Code.
                                                                        
 17        SECTION  49.  That Section 39-4431, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 18    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 19        39-4431.  COLLECTION AND ENFORCEMENT. (1) The collection  and  enforcement
 20    procedures  available  to the Idaho state tax commission provided by the Idaho
 21    income tax act, sections 63-3030A, 63-3038, 63-3039, 63-3040, 63-3042  through
 22    63-3045A,  63-3047  through  63-3065A,  63-3068,  63-3070,  63-3071,  63-3072,
 23    63-3073 and 63-3078, Idaho Code, as they now exist or as they may subsequently
 24    be  amended, shall apply and be available to the department of health and wel-
 25    fare environmental quality for the enforcement of the commercial disposal  fee
 26    and for the assessment and collection of any amounts due thereunder. Said sec-
 27    tions  shall,  for the aforementioned purposes, be considered part of this act
 28    chapter and wherever liens or any other proceedings are defined as income  tax
 29    liens  or  proceedings,  they shall, when applied in enforcement or collection
 30    under this act chapter, be described as commercial disposal fee liens and pro-
 31    ceedings.
 32        (2)  The department of health and welfare  environmental  quality  may  be
 33    made  a  party  defendant  in  any  action  at  law or in equity by any person
 34    aggrieved by the unlawful seizure or sale of his property, or in any suit  for
 35    refund  or  to  recover  an  overpayment, but only the state of Idaho shall be
 36    responsible for any final judgment secured against the  department  of  health
 37    and welfare environmental quality and said judgment shall be paid or satisfied
 38    out of the general fund of the state.
                                                                        
 39        SECTION  50.  That Section 39-5803, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 40    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 41        39-5803.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
 42        (1)  "Panel" means the site review panel created in section 39-5811, Idaho
 43    Code.
 44        (2)  "Committee" means the state hazardous waste management planning  com-
 45    mittee created in section 39-5805, Idaho Code.
 46        (3)  "Department" means the department of health and welfare environmental
 47    quality.
 48        (4)  "Designated  facility"  means a hazardous waste treatment, storage or
 49    disposal facility which has received a permit  or  has  interim  status  under
 50    title II of the solid waste disposal act or has a permit from the state autho-
 51    rized  under  section  3006  of  title  II of the solid waste disposal act (42
                                                                        
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  1    U.S.C.A. section 3006).
  2        (5)  "Director" means the director of the department of health and welfare
  3    environmental quality.
  4        (6)  "Disposal" is defined in section 39-4403, Idaho Code.
  5        (7)  "Disposal facility" means a facility or a part of a facility at which
  6    managed hazardous waste, as defined by rule, is intentionally placed  into  or
  7    on any land or water and at which hazardous waste will remain after closure.
  8        (8)  "Generator" is defined in section 39-4403, Idaho Code.
  9        (9)  "Hazardous waste" is defined in section 39-4403, Idaho Code.
 10        (10) "Hazardous  waste  management"  is  defined in section 39-4403, Idaho
 11    Code.
 12        (11) "On-site" means on the same  or  geographically  contiguous  property
 13    which  may  be divided by a public or private right-of-way if the entrance and
 14    exit between the pieces of property  are  at  a  crossroads  intersection  and
 15    access  is by crossing rather than going along the right-of-way. Noncontiguous
 16    pieces of property owned by the same person but connected  by  a  right-of-way
 17    which  the owner controls and to which the public does not have access is also
 18    considered on-site property.
 19        (12) "Operator" means the person responsible for the overall operation  of
 20    a disposal, treatment or storage facility with approval of the director either
 21    by contract or permit.
 22        (13) "Person" is defined in section 39-4403, Idaho Code.
 23        (14) "Plan" means the state hazardous waste management plan prepared under
 24    the provisions of section 39-5806, Idaho Code.
 25        (15) "Storage" is defined in section 39-4403, Idaho Code.
 26        (16) "Storage  facility"  means  a facility or part of a facility at which
 27    managed hazardous waste, as defined by rule and regulation is subject to stor-
 28    age.
 29        (17) "Title II of the  solid  waste  disposal  act"  means  sections  1001
 30    through  8006  of  public  law 89-272, 42 U.S.C. 6901, 6902 through 6910, 6912
 31    through 6940 and 6942 through 6986.
 32        For purposes of  this  chapter,  words  and  phrases  defined  in  section
 33    39-4403,  Idaho  Code,  shall carry the same meaning when used in this chapter
 34    unless the context clearly denotes otherwise.
                                                                        
 35        SECTION 51.  That Section 39-5805, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 36    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 37        39-5805.  STATE  HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANNING COMMITTEE -- CREATION
 38    -- MEMBERS. (1) The state hazardous waste  management  planning  committee  is
 39    hereby  created  in the department. The committee shall represent diverse geo-
 40    graphical areas of the state. No later than September 1,  1985,  the  governor
 41    shall, subject to the advice and consent of the senate, appoint seventeen (17)
 42    members to the committee consisting of the following representatives:
 43        (a)  One (1) representative of city government;
 44        (b)  One (1) representative of county government;
 45        (c)  One (1) hazardous waste transporter;
 46        (d)  One (1) hazardous waste generator;
 47        (e)  One  (1)  hazardous  waste  treatment,  storage, or disposal facility
 48        operator;
 49        (f)  One (1) member of an environmental group;
 50        (g)  One (1) member of a conservation group;
 51        (h)  Two (2) members of the general public;
 52        (i)  The director of the department or his designee;
 53        (j)  The director of the department of water resources or his designee;
                                                                        
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  1        (k)  One (1) licensed professional engineer;
  2        (l)  A faculty member of a university or college in this state well versed
  3        in geology, hydrology or other environmental matters;
  4        (m)  The director of the Idaho transportation department or his designee;
  5        (n)  One (1) representative of the mining industry;
  6        (o)  One (1) representative of the forest products industry; and
  7        (p)  One (1) representative of the agricultural industry.
  8        (2)  A vacancy occurring on the committee shall be filled in the same man-
  9    ner as the original appointment.
 10        (3)  The chairman of the committee shall be elected by the members of  the
 11    committee and the chairman shall be a voting member of the committee.
 12        (4)  Members  of  the committee who are not state employees shall be enti-
 13    tled to receive compensation as provided in section 59-509(b), Idaho Code.
 14        (5)  The committee by majority vote shall establish operating procedures.
 15    The operating procedures shall be made available for public review.
 16        (6)  In the conduct of its  business,  the  committee  shall  solicit  the
 17    advice  of,  and consult periodically with cities, counties and persons within
 18    the state for the purpose of receiving information or advice that may be help-
 19    ful in the preparation of the plan.
 20        (7)  Employees of the department of health and welfare environmental qual-
 21    ity, department of water resources and  the  transportation  department  shall
 22    assist the committee on a priority basis.
 23        (8)  The  committee  shall disband after final approval of the plan by the
 24    legislature.
 25        (9)  Upon petition to the director and the  director's  recommendation  to
 26    the governor, the governor shall appoint a committee in the same manner as the
 27    original committee to amend or revise the plan.
 28        (10) The  committee  shall  hold  its first meeting as soon as practicable
 29    after confirmation by the senate.
                                                                        
 30        SECTION 52.  That Section 39-5806, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 31    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 32        39-5806.  STATE  HAZARDOUS  WASTE SITING MANAGEMENT PLAN -- PREPARATION --
 33    INCLUSIONS -- STUDIES -- PUBLIC HEARINGS -- SUMMARY -- AMENDMENTS -- RECOMMEN-
 34    DATION. (1) Not later than January 1, 1987,  the  committee  shall  prepare  a
 35    state hazardous waste siting management plan.
 36        (2)  The plan shall:
 37        (a)  Provide  for  a reasonable geographic distribution of hazardous waste
 38        treatment, storage, or disposal facilities to meet existing  and  probable
 39        future needs.
 40        (b)  Be based upon location of generators, health and safety, economics of
 41        transporting, types of waste and existing hazardous waste treatment, stor-
 42        age, or disposal facilities.
 43        (c)  Include  necessary  legislative,  administrative  and economic mecha-
 44        nisms, a timetable to carry out the plan.
 45        (3)  The committee may instruct the department of health and welfare envi-
 46    ronmental quality, the department of water resources  and  the  transportation
 47    department to complete studies as considered reasonably necessary for the com-
 48    pletion of the plan. The studies may include:
 49        (a)  An inventory and evaluation of the sources of hazardous waste genera-
 50        tion within this state or from other states, including the types and quan-
 51        tities of the hazardous waste.
 52        (b)  An  inventory  and  evaluation  of current hazardous waste management
 53        practices and costs, including treatment and disposal, within this state.
                                                                        
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  1        (c)  A projection or determination of future  hazardous  waste  management
  2        needs based on an evaluation of existing capacities, treatment or disposal
  3        capabilities, manufacturing activity, limitations and constraints. Projec-
  4        tion of needs shall consider the types and sizes of hazardous waste treat-
  5        ment, storage, or disposal facilities, general locations within the state,
  6        management  control  systems,  and  an identified need for additional pri-
  7        vately owned or state owned treatment, storage, or disposal facilities.
  8        (d)  An investigation and analysis of methods and incentives to  encourage
  9        interstate  and  international  cooperation in the management of hazardous
 10        waste.
 11        (e)  An investigation and analysis of methods, incentives or  technologies
 12        for source reduction, reuse, recycling, or recovery of potentially hazard-
 13        ous  waste  and a strategy for encouraging the utilization or reduction of
 14        hazardous waste.
 15        (f)  An investigation and analysis of alternate methods for treatment  and
 16        disposal of hazardous waste.
 17        (4)  Upon  completion  of  the  plan, the committee shall publish a notice
 18    after giving twenty (20) days' notice as provided  in  section  60-109,  Idaho
 19    Code,  in  a  number  of  newspapers  and shall issue a statewide news release
 20    announcing the availability of the plan for inspection by interested  persons.
 21    The  announcement  shall  indicate  where  and how the plan may be obtained or
 22    reviewed and shall indicate that not less than three (3) public hearings shall
 23    be conducted at varying locations in the state  before  formal  adoption.  The
 24    first public hearing shall not be held until sixty (60) days have elapsed from
 25    the date of the notice announcing the availability of the plan.
 26        (5)  After  public hearings, the committee shall prepare a written summary
 27    of the comments received, provide comments on the major concerns raised,  make
 28    amendments  to  the  plan  as necessary and shall formally adopt the plan, and
 29    shall submit the plan to the legislature at the first regular session  of  the
 30    legislature following adoption of the plan.
                                                                        
 31        SECTION  53.  That Section 39-5812, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 32    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 33        39-5812.  SITE REVIEW  PANELS  --  MEMBERS,  CHAIRMAN,  QUORUM,  MEETINGS,
 34    STAFF.  (1) A site review panel shall be established to insure public input in
 35    the licensing process and to recommend to the director conditions which should
 36    be included in the siting license. Such conditions  may  include  measures  to
 37    mitigate public concerns for the following types of facilities:
 38        (a)  All  commercial  hazardous waste disposal facilities not in existence
 39        prior to July 1, 1985;
 40        (b)  All commercial hazardous waste treatment or storage facilities not in
 41        existence prior to July 1, 1985;
 42        (c)  Any on-site disposal of wastes listed pursuant to  section  201(d)(2)
 43        and  (e)  as  modified  by  section  209 of "The Hazardous and Solid Waste
 44        Amendments of 1984," as enacted by the U.S. congress,  for  sites  not  in
 45        existence prior to July 1, 1985;
 46        (d)  Any  significant  expansion of the above-listed facilities after July
 47        1, 1985.
 48        A panel shall consist of ten (10) members to be appointed as  provided  in
 49    subsections (2) and (3) of this section.
 50        (2)  The  following six (6) members shall serve on every panel established
 51    to review a siting license application:
 52        (a)  Three (3) members shall be representatives of  this  state,  one  (1)
 53        each  from the department of health and welfare environmental quality, the
                                                                        
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  1        department of water resources and the Idaho transportation  department.  A
  2        member who is a representative of this state shall be appointed by each of
  3        the  directors of the respective departments and a vacancy shall be filled
  4        as necessary by the appropriate director. A member who is a representative
  5        of the state shall be appointed to serve  on  site  review  panels  for  a
  6        period  of  two (2) years and may be appointed for additional two (2) year
  7        periods. In addition, a member who is a representative of  the  state  may
  8        serve beyond the expiration of the member's two (2) year period of service
  9        for  so long a period of time as is necessary to complete action on siting
 10        license applications pending at the expiration of the member's term.
 11        (b)  Three (3) members shall be public members appointed by  the  governor
 12        with  the advice and consent of the senate. One (1) public member shall be
 13        a geologist or hydrologist, one (1) an engineer, and one (1) a representa-
 14        tive  of  industries which generate hazardous waste. One (1) public member
 15        shall be on the faculty of an institution  of  higher  education  in  this
 16        state.  A  vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the period
 17        in the same manner as the original appointment. A member who is  a  public
 18        member  shall  be appointed to serve on site review panels for a period of
 19        three (3) years and  may  be  appointed  for  additional  three  (3)  year
 20        periods.
 21        (3)  The following four (4) members shall serve on a panel which is estab-
 22    lished to consider a particular siting license application:
 23        (a)  Two  (2)  members  shall be appointed by the city council of the city
 24        located closest to or in which the hazardous waste treatment, storage,  or
 25        disposal  facility  is  proposed  to  be located, at least one (1) of whom
 26        shall be a resident of the city. The members serving pursuant to this sub-
 27        section shall serve until the particular siting license  application  sub-
 28        ject to their review is approved, or until the application is rejected and
 29        is no longer subject to their review.
 30        (b)  Two  (2) members shall be residents of the county where the hazardous
 31        waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility is proposed to  be  located
 32        and  shall  be  appointed by the board of commissioners of the county. The
 33        members serving pursuant to this subsection shall serve until the particu-
 34        lar siting license application subject to their  review  is  approved,  or
 35        until  the  application  is  rejected  and  is  no longer subject to their
 36        review.
 37        (4)  The member appointed as the representative  of  the  state  from  the
 38    department  shall  be chairman of each panel and shall notify the city council
 39    of the nearest city and the board of county commissioners of a siting  license
 40    application  filed with the department, and shall instruct the city and county
 41    to appoint the necessary representatives to a panel. The chairman shall  be  a
 42    nonvoting  member of the panel except when the chairman's vote is necessary to
 43    break a tie vote.
 44        (5)  Six (6) of the ten (10) members of the panel shall constitute a  quo-
 45    rum  for  the  transaction of business of the panel and the concurrence of six
 46    (6) members of the panel shall constitute a legal action  of  the  panel.  All
 47    meetings  of  the  panel shall be conducted pursuant to the state open meeting
 48    law.
 49        (6)  The director shall make staff available to assist a panel in carrying
 50    out its responsibilities.
 51        (7)  Members of the panel who are not state employees shall be entitled to
 52    receive compensation as provided in section 59-509(b), Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 53        SECTION 54.  That Section 39-6203, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 54    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
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  1        39-6203.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
  2        (1)  "Board"  means  the  Idaho  board of health and welfare environmental
  3    quality.
  4        (2)  "Commercial PCB waste facility or  site"  means  any  facility  which
  5    engages  in  the  treatment, storage or disposal, for a fee or other consider-
  6    ation, of PCB waste generated off site by generators other than the owner  and
  7    operator of the facility.
  8        (3)  "Department"  means  the Idaho department of health and welfare envi-
  9    ronmental quality.
 10        (4)  "Director" means the director of the Idaho department of  health  and
 11    welfare environmental quality or the director's authorized agent.
 12        (5)  "Disposal"  means  to  intentionally  or  accidentally discard, throw
 13    away, or otherwise complete or terminate the useful life of PCB waste within a
 14    PCB waste facility or site. Disposal includes spills, leaks, and other  uncon-
 15    trolled  discharges  of  PCB  waste as well as actions related to containment,
 16    destruction, degradation, decontamination or storage of PCB waste within a PCB
 17    waste facility or site.
 18        (6)  "Generator" means any person, who by virtue of ownership, management,
 19    or control, is responsible for causing or allowing to be caused  the  creation
 20    of a PCB waste.
 21        (7)  "Manifest"  means  a form used for identifying the quantity, composi-
 22    tion, origin, routing, waste identification code(s), and  destination  of  PCB
 23    waste  during  any transportation from the point of generation to the point of
 24    treatment, storage or disposal.
 25        (8)  "PCB" means polychlorinated biphenyl.
 26        (9)  "PCB waste" means any waste or waste item which is contaminated  with
 27    PCB.
 28        (10) "PCB waste facility or site" means any property, structure, or ancil-
 29    lary equipment intended or used for the disposal of PCB wastes.
 30        (11) "Person"  means any individual, association, partnership, firm, joint
 31    stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, public or private  corpo-
 32    ration,  state or federal governmental department, agency, or instrumentality,
 33    or any other legal entity which is recognized by law as the subject of  rights
 34    and duties.
 35        (12) "Polychlorinated  biphenyl"  means  any chemical substance limited to
 36    the biphenyl molecule that has been chlorinated to varying degrees.
 37        (13) "Storage" means the containment of PCB wastes, on a  temporary  basis
 38    or  for  a  period of years, in such a manner as to not constitute disposal of
 39    such PCB wastes.
 40        (14) "Transportation" means the movement of any PCB waste to or from a PCB
 41    waste facility or site.
 42        (15) "Transporter" means any person who transports a PCB waste to or  from
 43    a PCB waste facility or site.
 44        (16) "Treatment"  means  any method, technique, or process, including neu-
 45    tralization, which is designed not to be an  integral  part  of  a  production
 46    process,  but  which  is  rather designed to change the physical, chemical, or
 47    biological character or composition of any PCB waste prior to storage or final
 48    disposal so as to neutralize  such  waste  or  so  as  to  render  such  waste
 49    nonhazardous  or  less hazardous; safer to transport, store, or dispose of; or
 50    amenable for recovery, amenable for storage or reduced in  volume.  Such  term
 51    includes  any  activity  or processing designed to change the physical form or
 52    chemical composition of PCB waste to render it nonhazardous.
 53        (17) "TSCA" means the toxic substances control act, as amended, 15 U.S.C.,
 54    section 2601, et seq.
 55        (18) "Waste" means any solid, semisolid, liquid or contained gaseous mate-
                                                                        
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  1    rial for which no reasonable use or reuse is intended or which is intended  to
  2    be discarded.
                                                                        
  3        SECTION  55.  That Section 39-6404, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  4    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  5        39-6404.  ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGIONAL CLEAN  LAKES  COORDINATING  COUNCIL.
  6    There  is hereby created in the region encompassing Boundary, Benewah, Bonner,
  7    Kootenai and Shoshone counties a regional clean lakes coordinating council. It
  8    shall be the responsibility of the clean lakes coordinating council to  imple-
  9    ment the clean lakes pilot program created by this chapter. The regional clean
 10    lakes coordinating council shall be assisted in carrying out its responsibili-
 11    ties  by  the staffs of the panhandle health district and the division depart-
 12    ment of environmental quality. of the department of health and welfare.
                                                                        
 13        SECTION 56.  That Section 39-6407, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 14    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 15        39-6407.  TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP. To assist in its objectives, the coun-
 16    cil  shall  create a technical advisory group which may include the designated
 17    representatives of the public health district, city  and  county  planning  or
 18    engineering  departments, Department of Health and Welfare Environmental Qual-
 19    ity, Department of Lands, Department of Fish and Game, Department of Parks and
 20    Recreation, Department of Water Resources, State Soil Conservation Commission,
 21    United States Forest Service, United States Bureau of Land Management,  United
 22    States  Army  Corps  of Engineers, United States Agricultural Conservation and
 23    Stabilization Services, United States Environmental Protection Agency,  United
 24    States  Geological  Survey or any one or more of said agencies and such repre-
 25    sentatives of agriculture, conservation, forest products, sportsmen and mining
 26    interests as may be appointed by the county. Indian tribes may nominate a rep-
 27    resentative for the technical advisory group to the county for appointment  to
 28    the  group.  Members shall serve without state compensation except such normal
 29    compensation received by members who are state employees serving in the normal
 30    course and scope of their employment.
                                                                        
 31        SECTION 57.  That Section 39-6501, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 32    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 33        39-6501.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
 34        (1)  "DivisionDepartment"  means  the division department of environmental
 35    quality. of the department of health and welfare.
 36        (2)  "Motor vehicle" means any  automobile,  motorcycle,  truck,  trailer,
 37    semitrailer,  truck tractor and semitrailer combination or other vehicle oper-
 38    ated on the roads of this state, used to transport  persons  or  property  and
 39    propelled  by  power  other  than  muscular  power, but motor vehicle does not
 40    include bicycles.
 41        (3)  "Retail seller of motor vehicle tires" and "wholesale seller of motor
 42    vehicle tires" include those persons who  sell  or  lease  motor  vehicles  to
 43    others in the ordinary course of business.
 44        (4)  "Tire"  shall  have  the  meaning  contained in section 49-121, Idaho
 45    Code.
 46        (5)  "New tire" means a tire which is not used or retreaded, and is  being
 47    sold on the market for the first time.
 48        (6)  "Waste tire" means a tire that is no longer suitable for its original
 49    intended purpose because of wear, damage or defect.
                                                                        
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  1        (7)  "Waste  tire collection site" means a site where waste tires are col-
  2    lected before being offered for recycling or reuse and where more  than  fifty
  3    (50) tons of used tires are kept on site on any day.
  4        (8)  "Idaho  retreader"  is a person who accepts passenger and light truck
  5    tires generated in Idaho and retreads such tires in Idaho  and  is  registered
  6    with the division.
  7        (9)  "Passenger  and light truck tire" means any motor vehicle tire with a
  8    rim diameter of twelve (12) inches through sixteen (16) inches.
  9        (10) "Review committee" is an advisory committee appointed by the adminis-
 10    trator director of the division department to establish and/or review percent-
 11    ages for reimbursing retreaders and other users of waste tires, and to  review
 12    proposals  for other uses, grants to counties and contracts with private enti-
 13    ties.
 14        (11) "Waste tires generated in Idaho" are tires which first  become  waste
 15    tires in Idaho.
 16        (12) "Mining  waste  tire" means a waste tire which is greater than fifty-
 17    four (54) inches in diameter which was  used  in  mining  operations.   Mining
 18    waste  tires  may be disposed of by burial. The department of lands shall pre-
 19    pare guidelines to govern the burial of mining waste tires.
 20        (13) "End user" means the first person or company that purchases and  uses
 21    waste tires, chips or other materials made from waste tires.
                                                                        
 22        SECTION  58.  That Section 39-6503, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 23    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 24        39-6503.  WASTE TIRE COLLECTION SITES. An owner or  operator  of  a  waste
 25    tire collection site, within six (6) months of the effective date of this sec-
 26    tion,  shall  register  with  the division department and provide the division
 27    department with information concerning the site's location and  size  and  the
 28    approximate  number of waste tires which are stored at the site and shall ini-
 29    tiate steps to comply with the provisions of this  chapter  and  other  local,
 30    state and/or federal authorities.
                                                                        
 31        SECTION  59.  That Section 39-6504, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 32    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 33        39-6504.  DISPOSAL OF WASTE TIRES. (1) The disposal of waste tires, in any
 34    form, in landfills and the incineration of those tires is  prohibited,  except
 35    as  provided by permissible methods of waste tire management listed in subsec-
 36    tion (3) of this section or in accordance with rules and  regulations  of  the
 37    department  of health and welfare environmental quality. An owner and operator
 38    of a solid waste disposal site shall not knowingly accept waste tires for dis-
 39    posal.
 40        (2)  Beginning on January 1, 1993, a person shall  not  dispose  of  waste
 41    tires  unless  the waste tires are disposed of at a waste tire collection site
 42    or managed as provided in subsection (3) of this section  in  accordance  with
 43    rules and regulations of the division department.
 44        (3)  The following are permissible methods of waste tire management:
 45        (a)  Retreading.
 46        (b)  Constructing collision barriers.
 47        (c)  Controlling  soil  erosion  only  if used in accordance with approved
 48        engineering practices.
 49        (d)  Chopping or shredding prior to reuse.
 50        (e)  Grinding for use in asphalt or as a raw material for other products.
 51        (f)  Using as playground equipment.
                                                                        
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  1        (g)  Incinerating or using as a fuel or pyrolysis  if  permitted  by  law,
  2        regulations, rules or ordinances relating to burning of fuel.
  3        (h)  Hauling to lawful out-of-state collection or processing sites.
  4        (i)  Any other beneficial use, reuse or recycling of waste tires, chips or
  5        similar  material from waste tires generated in Idaho which meets the cri-
  6        teria set forth by the division department.
  7        (4)  The board of health and welfare environmental quality, by  rule,  and
  8    regulation, may authorize other methods of management and/or disposal of waste
  9    tires.
 10        (5)  The division department shall expedite the processing and issuance of
 11    any  permits required by the rules and regulations of the department of health
 12    and welfare for facilities or  operations  utilizing  permissible  methods  of
 13    waste tire management in accordance with the provisions of subsections (2) and
 14    (3) of this section.
                                                                        
 15        SECTION  60.  That Section 39-6506, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 16    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 17        39-6506.  RULES. AND REGULATIONS. The board of health and welfare environ-
 18    mental quality shall promulgate rules and regulations to address the registra-
 19    tion of waste tire transporters in Idaho;  management  standards;  collection,
 20    storage  and disposal of waste tires in Idaho, financial assurance and removal
 21    agreements; development of a  grant  program  to  counties  and  reimbursement
 22    requirements  for  eligible  tire recyclers and Idaho retreaders, and to carry
 23    out the provisions of this chapter.
                                                                        
 24        SECTION 61.  That Section 39-6603, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 25    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 26        39-6603.  ESTABLISHMENT  OF  THE  BIG  PAYETTE LAKE WATER QUALITY COUNCIL.
 27    There is hereby created a Big Payette Lake water quality council for the lake.
 28    It shall be the responsibility of the council to  develop  and  implement  the
 29    program created in this chapter. The council shall be assisted in carrying out
 30    its  responsibilities  by the division department of environmental quality, of
 31    the department of health and welfare, the local  public  health  district  and
 32    other appropriate state and local agencies as needed.
                                                                        
 33        SECTION  62.  That Section 39-6609, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 34    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 35        39-6609.  TECHNICAL COMMITTEE. To assist in the development  of  its  pro-
 36    gram, the council shall create a technical committee which may include but are
 37    is  not exclusively limited to designated representatives of the public health
 38    district, city and county planning  or  engineering  departments,  the  county
 39    planning  and  zoning commission, the McCall water and sewer district, depart-
 40    ment of health and welfare environmental quality, department of lands, depart-
 41    ment of fish and game, department of parks and recreation, department of water
 42    resources, state soil conservation commission, United States  forest  service,
 43    United States army corps of engineers, United States agricultural conservation
 44    and  stabilization  services,  United States soil conservation service, United
 45    States geological survey, United States environmental  protection  agency  and
 46    representatives  proposed  by  interests in agriculture, environmental protec-
 47    tion, forest products, sporting and mining. Indian tribes may nominate a  rep-
 48    resentative  for  the  technical  committee. Members shall serve without state
 49    compensation except such normal  compensation  received  by  members  who  are
                                                                        
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  1    state,  city,  county,  district  or  federal  employees serving in the normal
  2    course and scope of their employment.
                                                                        
  3        SECTION 63.  That Section 39-7002, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
  4    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  5        39-7002.  DISPOSAL  OF  LEAD ACID BATTERIES. (1) The disposal of lead acid
  6    batteries in landfills and the incineration of those batteries is  prohibited.
  7    An  owner  or  operator of a solid waste disposal facility shall not knowingly
  8    accept a lead acid battery for disposal unless the owner or operator is remov-
  9    ing lead acid batteries from the waste stream for recycling. A lead acid  bat-
 10    tery shall be discarded or disposed of only as follows:
 11        (a)  A  lead  acid battery  retailer or wholesaler may deliver a lead acid
 12        battery to any one (1) of the following:
 13             (i)   A permitted secondary lead smelter.
 14             (ii)  A battery manufacturer.
 15             (iii) A collection or recycling facility authorized  by  the  federal
 16             environmental protection agency or division department of environmen-
 17             tal quality.
 18             (iv)  In  the  case  of battery retailers only, an agent of a battery
 19             wholesaler.
 20             (v)  A landfill operator who offers collection services for recycling
 21             lead acid batteries.
 22        (2)  A person other than a lead acid battery retailer  or  wholesaler  may
 23    deliver a lead acid battery to any of the following:
 24        (a)  A lead acid battery retailer or wholesaler.
 25        (b)  A permitted secondary lead smelter.
 26        (c)  A collection or recycling facility authorized by the federal environ-
 27        mental protection agency or the division department of environmental qual-
 28        ity.
 29        (d)  A landfill operator who offers collection services for recycling lead
 30        acid batteries.
                                                                        
 31        SECTION  64.  That Section 39-7108, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 32    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 33        39-7108.  NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE IS REQUIRED.  (1)  Any  person  who  has
 34    responsibility  for  reporting a release under the federal comprehensive envi-
 35    ronmental response, compensation and liability act (CERCLA), 42  U.S.C.  9603,
 36    shall,  as  soon  as practicable after he has knowledge of any such reportable
 37    release other than a permitted release or as exempted in  section  39-7108(3),
 38    Idaho Code, notify the military division of such release.
 39        (2)  Any  person  who has responsibility for reporting a release under the
 40    federal emergency planning and community right-to-know act, 42 U.S.C. 11001 et
 41    seq., shall as soon as practicable after he has knowledge of any such  report-
 42    able  release  other  than a permitted release notify the military division of
 43    such release.
 44        (3)  Any facility having a release reportable  under  section  39-7108(1),
 45    Idaho  Code, shall not be required to report the release to the military divi-
 46    sion if the following circumstances are met:
 47        (a)  Such release is  not  reportable  under  subsection  (2)  of  section
 48        39-7108, Idaho Code.
 49        (b)  The  facility  has  an  approved private emergency response plan that
 50        details how such spills shall be responded to and reported.
 51    This provision does not relieve the facility from any reporting required under
                                                                        
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  1    other federal statutory, regulatory or other permit authorities.
  2        (4)  The military division shall immediately notify the  division  depart-
  3    ment  of  environmental quality within the department of health and welfare of
  4    any release reported to the military division. Such reporting to the  military
  5    division  shall  fulfill  all  state  reporting  requirements for the division
  6    department of environmental quality.
  7        (5)  Any person who does not notify the military  division  in  accordance
  8    with  the  provisions  of  section  39-7108, Idaho Code, shall be liable for a
  9    civil penalty of a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars  ($1,000)  for  each
 10    day  the  violation  continues  to  a  maximum of twenty-five thousand dollars
 11    ($25,000).
 12        (6)  No penalty pursuant to this section shall occur if an incident occurs
 13    on private property and results in no offsite environmental damage.
                                                                        
 14        SECTION 65.  That Section 39-7114, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 15    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 16        39-7114.  PRIVATE  EMERGENCY  RESPONSE  PLAN  APPROVAL.  Private emergency
 17    response plans may be prepared for any facility or specific set of conditions.
 18    A private emergency response plan must be  approved  by  the  local  emergency
 19    response authority or the military division unless the plan:
 20        (1)  Is  a  contingency  plan  that has been approved in the issuance of a
 21    final part B operating permit, in accordance with section 39-4401, Idaho Code,
 22    by the Idaho division department of environmental quality;
 23        (2)  Is a contingency plan prepared in accordance with the requirements of
 24    rules promulgated pursuant to section 39-4401, Idaho Code, by the Idaho  divi-
 25    sion department of environmental quality;
 26        (3)  Has  otherwise been approved by the the military division or division
 27    department of environmental quality. Private emergency response plans must  be
 28    submitted,  for file purposes, to the local emergency response authorities and
 29    the military division to qualify as a private emergency  response  plan  under
 30    this section.
                                                                        
 31        SECTION  66.  That Section 39-7203, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 32    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 33        39-7203.  GENERAL DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
 34        (1)  "Board" means the board of health and welfare environmental quality.
 35        (2)  "Department" means the department of health and welfare environmental
 36    quality.
 37        (3)  "Hazardous substance" has the meaning set forth in section 101(14) of
 38    the comprehensive environmental,  response,  compensation  and  liability  act
 39    (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9601 (14) as amended.
 40        (4)  "Person"  means any individual, association, partnership, firm, joint
 41    stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, public or private  corpo-
 42    ration,  state  or federal governmental department, agency or instrumentality,
 43    or any other legal entity which is recognized  by law as the subject of rights
 44    and duties.
 45        (5)  "Petroleum" includes petroleum asphalt and crude oil or any  part  of
 46    petroleum  asphalt  or crude oil that is liquid at standard conditions of tem-
 47    perature and pressure (sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit and fourteen  and  seven-
 48    tenths (14.7) pounds per square inch absolute).
 49        (6)  "Release"  means  any  spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
 50    emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching,  dumping,  or  disposing
 51    into the environment, including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, con-
                                                                        
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  1    tainers,  or  other  closed  receptacles containing any hazardous substance or
  2    petroleum.
  3        (7)  "Remediation" means any of the following:
  4        (a)  Actions necessary to prevent, minimize, or mitigate  damages  to  the
  5        public health or welfare or to the environment, which may otherwise result
  6        from a release or threat of a release; or
  7        (b)  Actions  consistent  with  a permanent remedy taken instead of, or in
  8        addition to, removal actions in the  event  of  a  release  or  threatened
  9        release  of  a  hazardous  substance  or petroleum into the environment to
 10        eliminate the release of hazardous substances or  petroleum  so  that  the
 11        hazardous substances or petroleum do not migrate to cause substantial dan-
 12        ger to present or future public health or welfare or the environment; or
 13        (c)  The  cleanup or removal of released hazardous substances or petroleum
 14        from the environment.
 15        (8)  "Site" means a parcel of real estate for  which  an  application  has
 16    been submitted under section 39-7204, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 17        SECTION  67.  That Section 39-7401, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 18    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 19        39-7401.  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. (1) The legislature finds:
 20        (a)  That adverse public health and environmental impacts can result  from
 21        the improper land disposal of solid waste and that the need for establish-
 22        ing safe sites with adequate capacity for the disposal of solid waste is a
 23        matter of statewide concern and necessity; and
 24        (b)  That the resource conservation and recovery act (42 U.S.C. sec. 6901,
 25        et  seq.)  as amended, and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, establish
 26        complex, detailed and costly provisions for the location,  design,  opera-
 27        tion and monitoring of solid waste disposal sites, including such sites as
 28        may  be operated pursuant to the responsibility established in chapter 44,
 29        title 31, Idaho Code; and
 30        (c)  That a state program to implement flexible standards provided  in  40
 31        CFR  258, if approved by the U.S. environmental protection agency, enables
 32        a state to take advantage of site specific factors in the design and oper-
 33        ation of solid waste facilities and flexibility in meeting federal  crite-
 34        ria set forth in that regulation; and
 35        (d)  That  40  CFR  258 provides that such a program of flexible standards
 36        requires approvals by a designated state agency; and
 37        (e)  That chapter 1, title 39, Idaho Code, vests the department of  health
 38        and  welfare environmental quality with the responsibility to issue a cer-
 39        tificate of suitability concerning prospective solid waste landfill sites,
 40        to approve solid waste facility and ground water monitoring  programs  and
 41        to provide approvals pursuant to 40 CFR 258; and
 42        (f)  That  chapter  44,  title 31, Idaho Code, imposes on the counties the
 43        primary responsibility for the development and operation of a solid  waste
 44        management system; and
 45        (g)  That chapter 4, title 39, Idaho Code, vests the health districts with
 46        the  primary  responsibility for the review of solid waste facility opera-
 47        tions plans and the enforcement of solid waste management operations; and
 48        (h)  That the coordination and timeliness of response to  federal  law  on
 49        the  part  of all public officials within the state is critical to compli-
 50        ance with federal regulations, the ability  of  each  affected  agency  to
 51        carry  out their statutory responsibilities and the avoidance of excessive
 52        construction and public expenditures.
 53        (2)  Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to establish a program
                                                                        
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  1    of solid waste management which complies with 40 CFR 258 and  facilitates  the
  2    incorporation of flexible standards in facility design and operation. The leg-
  3    islature  hereby establishes the solid waste disposal standards and procedures
  4    outlined herein and a facility approval process for the state  of  Idaho,  the
  5    political  subdivisions  thereof,  and  any  private solid waste disposal site
  6    owner in order to facilitate the development and operation of solid waste dis-
  7    posal sites, to effect timely and responsible completion of  statutory  duties
  8    and  to  ensure protection of human health and the environment, to protect the
  9    air, land and waters of the state of Idaho.
                                                                        
 10        SECTION 68.  That Section 39-7402, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 11    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 12        39-7402.  APPLICABILITY.  (1)  The  standards  and procedures set forth in
 13    this chapter apply to owners and operators of new municipal solid waste  land-
 14    fill  (MSWLF)  units, existing MSWLF units, and lateral expansions of existing
 15    MSWLF units, except as otherwise specifically provided.
 16        (2)  The requirements of this chapter do not apply  to  MSWLF  units  that
 17    ceased to accept waste on or prior to October 9, 1991.
 18        (3)  MSWLF  units  that  receive  waste  after  October  9, 1991, but stop
 19    receiving waste in conformance with the provisions of  40  CFR  258.1(d),  are
 20    exempt  from  the  requirements  of this chapter, except as expressly provided
 21    herein.
 22        (4)  All MSWLF units that receive waste on or after October 9, 1993,  must
 23    comply  with all of the requirements of this chapter, unless otherwise allowed
 24    in 40 CFR 258.1(d), (e) or (f).
 25        (5)  MSWLF units failing to satisfy these standards shall cease  operation
 26    and  shall not accept municipal solid waste for disposal by order of the divi-
 27    sion department of environmental quality and/or the district health department
 28    until provisions of this chapter are complied with unless a compliance  sched-
 29    ule  has been approved by the director of the department of health and welfare
 30    environmental quality and/or the district health department.
 31        (6)  MSWLF units failing to satisfy the requirements set forth in this act
 32    chapter are considered open dumps for purposes of state solid waste management
 33    planning and are prohibited under section 4005 of RCRA.
 34        (7)  MSWLF units containing sewage sludge and which fail  to  satisfy  the
 35    criteria  set forth in 40 CFR 258 violate sections 309 and 405(e) of the clean
 36    water act.
                                                                        
 37        SECTION 69.  That Section 39-7403, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 38    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 39        39-7403.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
 40        (1)  "Active  portion"  means  that  part  of  a facility or unit that has
 41    received or is receiving wastes and that has not  been  closed  in  accordance
 42    with 40 CFR 258.60.
 43        (2)  "Agricultural  wastes" means wastes generated on farms resulting from
 44    the production of agricultural products including, but not limited to, manures
 45    and carcasses of dead animals weighing each or collectively in excess of  fif-
 46    teen (15) pounds but do not include wastes that are classified as hazardous.
 47        (3)  "Applicant"  means the owner or the operator with the owner's written
 48    consent.
 49        (4)  "Aquifer" means a geological formation, group  of  formations,  or  a
 50    portion  of  a  formation capable of yielding significant quantities of ground
 51    water to wells or springs.
                                                                        
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  1        (5)  "Board" means the Idaho board of  health  and  welfare  environmental
  2    quality.
  3        (6)  "Buffer  zone"  means  that  part of a facility that lies between the
  4    active portion and the property boundary.
  5        (7)  "Clean soils and clean dredge spoils" means soils and  dredge  spoils
  6    which are not hazardous wastes or problem wastes as defined in this section.
  7        (8)  "Commercial  solid waste" means all types of solid waste generated by
  8    stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses and  other  nonmanufacturing  activi-
  9    ties, excluding residential and industrial wastes.
 10        (9)  "Commercial solid waste facility" means a facility owned and operated
 11    as  an enterprise conducted with the intent of making a profit by any individ-
 12    ual, association, firm, or partnership for the disposal of  solid  waste,  but
 13    excludes  a  facility  owned  or operated by a political subdivision, state or
 14    federal agency, municipality or a facility owned or operated by  any  individ-
 15    ual,  association,  firm  or partnership exclusively for the disposal of solid
 16    waste generated by such individual, association, firm or partnership.
 17        (10) "Construction/demolition waste" means the waste  building  materials,
 18    packaging and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demo-
 19    lition  operations on pavements, houses, commercial buildings and other struc-
 20    tures. Such waste includes, but is not limited  to,  bricks,  concrete,  other
 21    masonry  materials,  soil,  rock, lumber, road spoils, rebar, paving materials
 22    and tree stumps. Noninert wastes and asbestos wastes are not considered to  be
 23    demolition waste for the purposes of this chapter.
 24        (11) "Contaminate" means to allow discharge of a substance from a landfill
 25    that would cause:
 26        (a)  The concentration of that substance in the ground water to exceed the
 27        maximum contamination level (MCL) specified in 40 CFR 258.40, Idaho drink-
 28        ing water standards; or
 29        (b)  A  statistically  significant  increase  in the concentration of that
 30        substance in the ground water where the  existing  concentration  of  that
 31        substance  exceeds  the maximum contamination level specified in paragraph
 32        (a) of this subsection; or
 33        (c)  A statistically significant increase above background in the  concen-
 34        tration of a substance which:
 35             (i)   is not specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection; and
 36             (ii)  is a result of the disposal of solid waste; and
 37             (iii) has  been determined by the department to present a substantial
 38             risk to human health or the environment in the  concentrations  found
 39             at the point of compliance.
 40        (12) "County" means any county in the state of Idaho.
 41        (13) "Cover  material"  means soil or other suitable material that is used
 42    to protect the active portion of the MSWLF unit.
 43        (14) "Director" means the director of the Idaho department of  health  and
 44    welfare environmental quality.
 45        (15) "Existing  MSWLF  unit" means any municipal solid waste landfill unit
 46    that is receiving solid waste as of the applicable date specified  in  40  CFR
 47    258.1(e).
 48        (16) "Facility"  means  all  contiguous land and structures, buffer zones,
 49    and other appurtenances and improvements on the land used for the disposal  of
 50    solid waste.
 51        (17) "Floodplain" means the area encompassed by the one hundred (100) year
 52    flood  as  defined  by  applicable  federal emergency management agency (FEMA)
 53    flood insurance maps or, if no map exists, then as defined in 40 CFR 258.11.
 54        (18) "Ground water" means water below the land surface in a zone of  satu-
 55    ration.
                                                                        
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  1        (19) "Health  district"  means  one  (1)  of the seven (7) district health
  2    departments of the state of Idaho.
  3        (20) "Holocene fault" means a fault characterized as a fracture or a  zone
  4    of fractures in any material along which strata on one (1) side have been dis-
  5    placed  with  respect  to  that  on the other side and holocene being the most
  6    recent epoch  of  the  quaternary  period,  extending  from  the  end  of  the
  7    pleistocene epoch to the present.
  8        (21) "Household waste" means any solid waste, including garbage, trash and
  9    sanitary  waste in septic tanks, derived from households, including single and
 10    multiple residences, hotels and  motels,  bunkhouses,  ranger  stations,  crew
 11    quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds and day use recreation areas.
 12        (22) "Industrial solid waste" means solid waste generated by manufacturing
 13    or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste regulated under subtitle
 14    C of RCRA. Such waste may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from
 15    the  following manufacturing processes: Eelectric power generation; fertilizer
 16    and agricultural chemicals; food and related products and  by-products  bypro-
 17    ducts;  inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and leather
 18    products;  nonferrous  metals  manufacturing/foundries;   organic   chemicals;
 19    plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscel-
 20    laneous  plastic  products;  stone, glass, clay and concrete products; textile
 21    manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment. This  term  does
 22    not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
 23        (23) "Inert  wastes"  means  noncombustible,  nonhazardous,  nonputresible
 24    nonputrescible, nonleaching solid wastes that are likely to retain their phys-
 25    ical  and  chemical structure under expected conditions of disposal, including
 26    resistance to biological attack.
 27        (24) "Landfill" means an area of land or an excavation in which wastes are
 28    placed for permanent disposal, and that is not a land application  unit,  sur-
 29    face impoundment, injection well or waste pile.
 30        (25) "Landspreading  disposal facility" or "land application unit" means a
 31    facility that applies sludges or other solid wastes onto or incorporates solid
 32    waste into the soil surface, excluding manure spreading operations, at greater
 33    than agronomic rates and soil conditioners and immobilization rates.
 34        (26) "Lateral expansion" means a horizontal expansion of the waste  bound-
 35    aries of an existing MSWLF unit.
 36        (27) "Leachate"  means  a  liquid  that has passed through or emerged from
 37    solid waste and contains soluble, suspended or miscible materials removed from
 38    such waste.
 39        (28) "Limited purpose landfill" means a landfill that receives solid waste
 40    of limited type with known and consistent composition other than wood  wastes,
 41    municipal solid waste, inert waste and construction/demolition waste.
 42        (29) "Liquid waste" as defined in 40 CFR 258.28(c)(1).
 43        (30) "Monofill"  means  a  landfill  which contains a specific waste whose
 44    waste stream characteristics remain unchanged over time and may  include  spe-
 45    cial  wastes,  problem wastes or other consistent characteristic wastes but do
 46    not include wastes regulated under any other applicable regulations.
 47        (31) "Municipal solid waste landfill unit (MSWLF)" means a  discrete  area
 48    of land or an excavation that receives household waste, and that is not a land
 49    application unit, surface impoundment, injection well, or waste pile, as those
 50    terms  are  defined  under  40  CFR 257.2. A MSWLF unit also may receive other
 51    types of RCRA subtitle D wastes, such as commercial solid waste,  nonhazardous
 52    sludge,  conditionally  exempt  small  quantity generator waste and industrial
 53    solid waste. Such a landfill may be publicly or privately owned. A MSWLF  unit
 54    may be a new MSWLF unit, an existing MSWLF unit or a lateral expansion.
 55        (32) "New  MSWLF  unit" means any municipal solid waste landfill unit that
                                                                        
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  1    has not received waste prior to October 9, 1993, or prior to October 9,  1995,
  2    if the MSWLF unit meets the conditions specified in 40 CFR 258.1(f)(1).
  3        (33) "Open  burning" means the combustion of solid waste without: (a) con-
  4    trol of combustion air to maintain adequate temperature for efficient  combus-
  5    tion; (b) containment of the combustion reaction in an enclosed device to pro-
  6    vide sufficient resident time and mixing for complete combustion; and (c) con-
  7    trol of the emission of the combustion products.
  8        (34) "Operator"  means the person(s) responsible for the overall operation
  9    of a facility or part of a facility.
 10        (35) "Owner" means the person(s) who owns a facility or part of  a  facil-
 11    ity.
 12        (36) "Permeability" means the capacity of a material to transmit a liquid.
 13    For the purposes of this chapter permeability is expressed in terms of hydrau-
 14    lic conductivity of water in centimeters-per-second units of measurement.
 15        (37) "Person" means an individual, association, firm, partnership, politi-
 16    cal  subdivision,  public  or  private  corporation,  state or federal agency,
 17    municipality, industry, or any other legal entity whatsoever.
 18        (38) "Pile" or "waste pile" means any noncontainerized  solid,  nonflowing
 19    waste that is accumulated for treatment or storage.
 20        (39) "Plan  of  operation" means the written plan developed by an owner or
 21    operator of a MSWLF unit detailing how the facility is to be  operated  during
 22    its active life, during closure, and throughout the post closure period.
 23        (40) "Point of compliance" means a vertical surface located at the hydrau-
 24    lically  downgradient  intercept with the uppermost aquifer at which a release
 25    from a waste management unit measured as change  in  constituent  values  will
 26    trigger assessment monitoring. Point of compliance shall be used to define the
 27    facility  design,  location and frequency of ground water monitoring wells and
 28    corrective action.
 29        (41) "Post closure" means the requirements  placed  upon  the  MSWLF  unit
 30    after    closure  to  ensure their environmental safety for a thirty (30) year
 31    period or until  the  site  becomes  stabilized  in  accordance  with  section
 32    39-7416, Idaho Code.
 33        (42) "Processing"  means  an operation conducted on solid waste to prepare
 34    it for disposal.
 35        (43) "Qualified professional" means a licensed professional  geologist  or
 36    licensed  professional  engineer, as appropriate, holding current professional
 37    registration in compliance with applicable provisions of the Idaho Code.
 38        (44) "RCRA" means the resource conservation and recovery  act  (42  U.S.C.
 39    sec. 6901 et seq.), as amended.
 40        (45) "Run-off"  means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains
 41    over land from any part of a facility.
 42        (46) "Run-on" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid  that  drains
 43    over land onto any part of a facility.
 44        (47) "Saturated  zone"  means  that part of the earth's crust in which all
 45    voids are filled with water.
 46        (48) "Septage" means a semisolid consisting of settled sewage solids  com-
 47    bined  with  varying amounts of water and dissolved materials generated from a
 48    septic tank system.
 49        (49) "Sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a
 50    municipal, commercial, or industrial waste water treatment plant, water supply
 51    treatment plant or air pollution control facility  exclusive  of  the  treated
 52    effluent from a waste water treatment plant.
 53        (50) "Solid  waste" means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a waste water
 54    treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facil-
 55    ity and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid,  or  con-
                                                                        
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  1    tained  gaseous  material  resulting  from industrial, commercial, mining, and
  2    agricultural operations and from community activities, but  does  not  include
  3    solid  or  dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved mate-
  4    rials in irrigation return flows  or  industrial  discharges  that  are  point
  5    sources subject to permit under 33 U.S.C. 1342, or source, special nuclear, or
  6    by-product  byproduct material as defined in the atomic energy act of 1954, as
  7    amended (68 Stat. 923). These regulations shall not  apply  to  the  following
  8    solid wastes:
  9        (a)  Overburden,  waste  dumps and low-grade stockpiles from mining opera-
 10        tions;
 11        (b)  Liquid wastes whose discharge or  potential  discharge  is  regulated
 12        under federal, state or local water pollution permits;
 13        (c)  Hazardous wastes as designated in the hazardous waste management act,
 14        chapter 44, title 39, Idaho Code;
 15        (d)  Wood  waste used for ornamental, animal bedding, mulch and plant bed-
 16        ding and road building purposes;
 17        (e)  Agricultural wastes, limited to manures and crop  residues,  returned
 18        to the soils at agronomic rates;
 19        (f)  Clean soils and clean dredge spoils as otherwise regulated under sec-
 20        tion 404 of the federal clean water act (PL 95-217);
 21        (g)  Septage  taken  to  a  sewage treatment plant permitted by either the
 22        U.S. environmental protection agency or the department;
 23        (h)  Radioactive wastes, defined in the radiation  and  nuclear  materials
 24        act, chapter 30, title 39, Idaho Code; and
 25        (i)  Wood  debris resulting from the harvesting of timber and the disposal
 26        of which is permitted under chapter 1, title 38, Idaho Code.
 27        (51) "Special waste" means those wastes which require special treatment or
 28    handling after it arrives at the disposal site. The term includes, but is  not
 29    limited  to,  asbestos containing material, petroleum contaminated soils, low-
 30    level PCB containing material, low-level dioxin containing material and  uncut
 31    tires.
 32        (52) "Statistically  significant" means significant as determined by ANOVA
 33    analysis of variance as applied within 40 CFR 258.53(h)(2) or as  provided  by
 34    40 CFR 258.53(g)(5).
 35        (53) "Uppermost  aquifer" means the geological formation nearest the natu-
 36    ral ground surface that is an aquifer as  well  as  lower  aquifers  that  are
 37    hydraulically  interconnected with this aquifer within the facility's property
 38    boundary.
 39        (54) "Waste management unit boundary" means a vertical surface located  at
 40    the  hydraulically  downgradient  limit  of  the  unit.  This vertical surface
 41    extends down into the uppermost aquifer.
 42        (55) "Water quality standard" means a standard set for  maximum  allowable
 43    contamination  in  surface  waters  and ground water as set forth in the water
 44    quality standards for waters for the state of Idaho. (IDAPA 16.01.2001).
 45        (56) "Wetlands" as defined in 40 CFR 232.2(r).
 46        (57) "Wood waste" means solid waste consisting of wood pieces or particles
 47    generated as a by-product byproduct or waste from the  manufacturing  of  wood
 48    products,  handling  and  storage  of raw materials and trees and stumps. This
 49    includes, but is not limited to, sawdust, chips,  shavings,  bark,  pulp,  hog
 50    fuel  and  log  yard waste, but does not include wood pieces or particles con-
 51    taining chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol, or copper-
 52    chrome-arsenate.
 53        Undefined terms shall be given their usual and ordinary meaning within the
 54    context of the provisions of this chapter.
                                                                        
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  1        SECTION 70.  That Section 39-7408B, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  2    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  3        39-7408B.  SITE REVIEW PANELS  --  MEMBERS,  CHAIRMAN,  QUORUM,  MEETINGS,
  4    STAFF.  (1) A site review panel shall be established to insure public input in
  5    the licensing process, to recommend to the director conditions which should be
  6    included in a siting license and to recommend to the director whether  a  par-
  7    ticular facility should or should not be constructed, expanded or enlarged.
  8        (2)  A  panel  shall  consist of eight (8) members to be appointed as fol-
  9    lows:
 10        (a)  Three (3) members shall be the administrator director of the division
 11        department of environmental quality or his designee, the director  of  the
 12        Idaho  transportation  department  or his designee and the director of the
 13        department of water resources or his designee.
 14        (b)  One (1) member shall be a public member appointed  by  the  governor.
 15        The  public  member shall be an environmental professional, shall serve as
 16        chairman of the panel and shall be a voting member. A member who is a pub-
 17        lic member shall be appointed to serve on site review  panels  only  until
 18        the  particular  siting  license  application  subject  to their review is
 19        approved, or until the application is rejected and is no longer subject to
 20        their review.
 21        (c)  Two (2) members shall be appointed by the city council  of  the  city
 22        located closest to or in which the commercial solid waste facility is pro-
 23        posed  to  be located, at least one (1) of whom shall be a resident of the
 24        city. The members serving pursuant to this subsection  shall  serve  until
 25        the  particular  siting  license  application  subject to their  review is
 26        approved, or until the application is rejected and is no longer subject to
 27        their review.
 28        (d)  Two (2) members shall be appointed by the county  commission  and  be
 29        residents  of the county where the commercial solid waste facility is pro-
 30        posed to be located. The members serving pursuant to this subsection shall
 31        serve until the particular siting license  application  subject  to  their
 32        review  is approved, or until the application is rejected and is no longer
 33        subject to their review.
 34        (e)  A person nominated to represent a city or county  shall  not  have  a
 35        conflict  of  interest,  as  that term is defined in section 59-703, Idaho
 36        Code, or derive any economic gain as  that  term  is  defined  in  section
 37        59-703, Idaho Code, from the location or siting of the proposed commercial
 38        solid waste facility.
 39        (3)  The  director  shall  notify the city council of the nearest city and
 40    the board of county commissioners of a siting license application  filed  with
 41    the  department,  and shall instruct the city and county to appoint the neces-
 42    sary members to a panel.
 43        (4)  Five (5) of the eight (8) members of the  panel  shall  constitute  a
 44    quorum  for  the  transaction  of business of the panel and the concurrence of
 45    five (5) members of the panel shall constitute a legal action  of  the  panel,
 46    provided that no meeting of the panel shall occur unless there are at least as
 47    many  members present representing the city and county as there are represent-
 48    ing the state and the public as appointed pursuant to subsections  (2)(a)  and
 49    (b)  of this section. All meetings of the panel shall be conducted pursuant to
 50    the state open meeting law.
 51        (5)  The director shall make staff available to assist a panel in carrying
 52    out its responsibilities.
 53        (6)  Members of the panel who are not state employees shall be entitled to
 54    receive compensation as provided in section 59-509(b), Idaho Code.
                                                                        
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  1        SECTION 71.  That Section 39-7602, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
  2    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  3        39-7602.  DISBURSEMENTS  BY  THE DIRECTOR OF LOANS TO PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS
  4    -- LIMITATIONS ON LOANS -- RULES -- APPROVAL OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL --  AUDIT
  5    OF  DISBURSEMENTS. (1) There is hereby created the drinking water loan account
  6    fund. The division department of environmental quality shall use  moneys  from
  7    this  account  fund  only  for  providing loans, or as a source of reserve and
  8    security for leveraged loans, the proceeds  of  which  are  deposited  in  the
  9    drinking water loan account fund, or for other financial assistance authorized
 10    in  this  chapter  or  by federal law to community water systems and nonprofit
 11    noncommunity water systems.  Financial assistance under this  section  may  be
 12    used  by  a  public  water system only for project expenditures, not including
 13    monitoring, operation and maintenance expenditures, which will facilitate com-
 14    pliance with national primary drinking water standards applicable to the  sys-
 15    tem  or  which  will significantly further the health protection objectives of
 16    this chapter.  The funds may also be used for public water systems using  con-
 17    structed conveyances and not piped water systems if they meet the requirements
 18    of  the safe drinking water act amendments of 1996 and the director determines
 19    that the water provided for residential or similar uses for cooking,  drinking
 20    and  bathing  is centrally treated or treated at the point of entry to achieve
 21    the equivalent level of protection provided by the applicable national primary
 22    drinking water regulations. The funds shall not be used for the acquisition of
 23    real property or an interest in real property unless the acquisition is  inte-
 24    gral  to  the  project  authorized  by this section and the purchase is from a
 25    willing seller.
 26        (2)  (a)  Except as provided in subsection (2)(b) of this section, no loan
 27        assistance shall be provided to a public water system that:
 28             (i)   Does not have the technical, managerial and financial  capabil-
 29             ity to ensure compliance with the requirements of this chapter; or
 30             (ii)  Is  in  significant  noncompliance  with  any  requirement of a
 31             national primary drinking water regulation or variance.
 32        (b)  A public water system referenced in subsection (2)(a) of this section
 33        may receive assistance under this section if:
 34             (i)   The assistance will ensure compliance, and
 35             (ii)  If subsection (2)(a)(i) of this section applies to the  system,
 36             the  owner or operator of the system agrees to undertake feasible and
 37             appropriate changes in operations, including  ownership,  management,
 38             accounting, rates, maintenance, consolidation, alternative water sup-
 39             ply  or  other  procedures,  and then only if the director determines
 40             that the measures are necessary to ensure that  the  system  has  the
 41             technical,  managerial  and  financial  capability to comply with the
 42             requirements of this chapter and the safe drinking water  act  amend-
 43             ments of 1996.
 44        (3)  Except  as  otherwise  prohibited by state law, the amounts deposited
 45    into the drinking water loan account fund under this chapter may be used  only
 46    for the following:
 47        (a)  To make loans on the conditions that:
 48             (i)   The  interest  rate  for each loan is less than or equal to the
 49             market interest rate,
 50             (ii)  Principal and interest payments on each loan will commence  not
 51             later than one (1) year after completion of the project for which the
 52             loan  was  made  and each loan will be fully amortized not later than
 53             twenty (20) years after completion of the project, except that in the
 54             case of a disadvantaged community, an extended form for a loan may be
                                                                        
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  1             allowed if it terminates not later than thirty (30) years  after  the
  2             date the project is completed, and does not exceed the design life of
  3             the project,
  4             (iii) The recipient of each loan will establish a dedicated source of
  5             revenue,  or,  in  the  case of a privately owned system, demonstrate
  6             that there is adequate security, for the repayment of the loan, and
  7             (iv)  The drinking water loan account fund will be credited with  all
  8             payment of principal and interest on each loan;
  9        (b)  To  buy  or  refinance  the  debt  obligation of a municipality or an
 10        intermunicipal or interstate agency within the state at an  interest  rate
 11        that  is  less  than  or  equal to the market interest rate in any case in
 12        which a debt obligation is incurred after July 1, 1993;
 13        (c)  As a source of revenue or security for the payment of  principal  and
 14        interest on revenue or general obligation bonds issued by the state if the
 15        proceeds  of  the  sale  of  the bonds will be deposited into the drinking
 16        water loan account fund; and
 17        (d)  To earn interest on the amounts deposited  into  the  drinking  water
 18        loan account fund.
 19        (4)  For  every  agreement between the state and the federal government by
 20    which funds are made available, the state shall deposit in the drinking  water
 21    loan  account  fund  an  amount  equal to at least twenty percent (20%) of the
 22    total amount of the grant to be made to the state on or before  the  dates  on
 23    which grant payments are made to the state.
 24        (5)  The  director  may  promulgate  rules  necessary  for  the making and
 25    enforcing of loan contracts hereunder and for establishing  procedures  to  be
 26    followed in applying  for state loans or loan subsidies or training assistance
 27    herein  authorized  as  shall be necessary for the effective administration of
 28    the loan program.
 29        (6)  All contracts entered into pursuant to this chapter shall be  subject
 30    to approval by the attorney general as to form. All disbursements by the state
 31    pursuant  to such contracts shall be made after audit and upon warrant as pro-
 32    vided by law on vouchers approved by the director.
                                                                        
 33        SECTION 72.  That Section 39-7902, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 34    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 35        39-7902.  LEGISLATIVE  FINDINGS  AND  PURPOSES.  (1) The legislature finds
 36    that:
 37        (a)  The swine industry is experiencing rapid changes  such  as  increased
 38        sophistication  of  production technology, increased demand for capital to
 39        maintain or expand operations, consolidation  of  production  and  packing
 40        facilities and changing consumer demands and markets;
 41        (b)  Large  swine  facilities increase social and environmental impacts in
 42        the areas where these facilities are located;
 43        (c)  Adverse public health and environmental impacts can result  from  the
 44        improper  siting  of large swine facilities, therefore the need for estab-
 45        lishing safe sites with an adequate supply of natural resources,  such  as
 46        water, and an adequate capacity for the disposal of animal waste is a mat-
 47        ter of statewide concern;
 48        (d)  Section  39-104A, Idaho Code, vests the department of health and wel-
 49        fare environmental quality with the responsibility to make rules  regulat-
 50        ing swine operations; and section 39-105, Idaho Code, vests the department
 51        of  health  and  welfare environmental quality with the responsibility for
 52        the general supervision of the  promotion  and  protection  of  the  life,
 53        health and environment of the people of the state, including regulation of
                                                                        
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  1        air quality, water quality and disposal of solid waste.
  2        (2)  (a)  To  facilitate  swine  facility  siting  decisions  by boards of
  3        county commissioners and governing bodies of cities, this  chapter  estab-
  4        lishes  a review process within the department of health and welfare envi-
  5        ronmental quality for construction or expansion of large swine  facilities
  6        of a certain size, and to require approval of sites.
  7        (b)  The  procedures and requirements established in this chapter are nec-
  8        essary to facilitate the proper  siting  of  large  swine  facilities,  to
  9        effect timely and responsible completion of statutory duties and to ensure
 10        protection of human health, natural resources, private property values and
 11        the environment of the state.
 12        (c)  The site approval required in this chapter is required in addition to
 13        any other license, permit or approval required by law or rule.
 14        (3)  It is the intent of the legislature that this chapter will be applied
 15    only  to  swine  facilities with a capacity of twenty thousand (20,000) animal
 16    units or more and that this chapter will not be applied to any other  confined
 17    animal feeding operations.
                                                                        
 18        SECTION  73.  That Section 39-7903, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 19    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 20        39-7903.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
 21        (1)  "Active unit" means that part of a facility or unit that has received
 22    or is receiving wastes and that has not been closed.
 23        (2)  "Animal unit" is a unit of  measurement  equaling  two  and  one-half
 24    (2 1/2)  swine,  each  weighing over twenty-five (25) kilograms (approximately
 25    fifty-five (55) pounds), or ten (10) weaned swine, each weighing under twenty-
 26    five (25) kilograms. Total animal units are calculated by adding the number of
 27    swine weighing over twenty-five (25) kilograms (approximately fifty-five  (55)
 28    pounds) multiplied by four-tenths (.4), plus the number of weaned swine weigh-
 29    ing under twenty-five (25) kilograms multiplied by one-tenth (.1).
 30        (3)  "Animal  waste" means animal excrement, feed wastes, process wastewa-
 31    ter or any other waste associated with the confinement of swine.
 32        (4)  "Animal waste management system" means any structure or  system  that
 33    provides  for  the collection, treatment, disposal, distribution or storage of
 34    animal waste.
 35        (5)  "Applicant" means the owner or the operator with the owner's  written
 36    consent.
 37        (6)  "Aquifer"  means  a  geological  formation, group of formations, or a
 38    portion of a formation capable of yielding significant  quantities  of  ground
 39    water to wells or springs.
 40        (7)  "Certified  planner"  means  a  person who has completed the nutrient
 41    management certification in accordance with the nutrient management standard.
 42        (8)  "County" means any county in the state of Idaho.
 43        (9)  "Department" means the Idaho department of health and  welfare  envi-
 44    ronmental quality.
 45        (10) "Director"  means  the director of the Idaho department of health and
 46    welfare environmental quality or his designee.
 47        (11) "Existing facility" means a facility built and in operation  one  (1)
 48    year or more before the original effective date of this chapter.
 49        (12) "Expand"  or "expanding facility" means a swine facility of less than
 50    twenty thousand (20,000) animal units that increases its one-time animal  unit
 51    capacity to twenty thousand (20,000) or more animal units.
 52        (13) "Facility"  means  any  place, site or location or part thereof where
 53    swine are kept, handled, housed, or otherwise maintained and includes, but  is
                                                                        
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  1    not  limited  to,  all buildings, lots, pens, animal waste management systems,
  2    structures, and other appurtenances and improvements on the land.
  3        (14) "Ground water" means water below the land surface in a zone of  satu-
  4    ration.
  5        (15) "Holocene  fault" means a fault characterized as a fracture or a zone
  6    of fractures in any material along which strata on one (1) side have been dis-
  7    placed with respect to that on the other side  and  holocene  being  the  most
  8    recent  epoch  of  the  quaternary  period,  extending  from  the  end  of the
  9    pleistocene epoch to the present.
 10        (16) "Land application" means the spreading on or incorporation of  animal
 11    waste into the soil mantle primarily for beneficial purposes.
 12        (17) "Natural  resources  conservation service" or "NRCS" means the United
 13    States department of agriculture, natural resources conservation service.
 14        (18) "Nutrient management plan" means a plan prepared in  compliance  with
 15    the nutrient management standard or other equally protective standard approved
 16    by the director for managing the amount, source, placement, form and timing of
 17    the land application of nutrients and soil amendments for plant production and
 18    to minimize the potential for environmental degradation, particularly of water
 19    quality.
 20        (19) "Nutrient  management  standard"  means  the  standard  of the United
 21    States  department of agriculture, natural resource conservation service  code
 22    590  or  the  Idaho agricultural pollution abatement plan, nutrient management
 23    standard component practice.
 24        (20) "One-time animal unit capacity" means the maximum  number  of  animal
 25    units that a facility is capable of housing at any given point in time.
 26        (21) "Operate"  means to confine, feed, propagate, house or otherwise sus-
 27    tain swine.
 28        (22) "Operator" means the person(s) responsible for the overall  operation
 29    of a facility or part of a facility.
 30        (23) "Owner"  means  the person(s) who owns a facility or part of a facil-
 31    ity.
 32        (24) "Permit" when used as a noun means a permit issued  by  the  director
 33    pursuant to IDAPA 16.01.09 rules of the department.
 34        (25) "Person" means an individual, association, firm, partnership, politi-
 35    cal  subdivision,  public  or  private  corporation,  state or federal agency,
 36    municipality, industry or any other  legal  entity  whatsoever,  and  includes
 37    owners and operators.
 38        (26) "Plan of operation" or "operating plan" means the written plan devel-
 39    oped by an owner or operator of a swine facility unit detailing how the facil-
 40    ity  is  to be operated during its active life, during closure, and throughout
 41    the postclosure period.
 42        (27) "Process wastewater" means any water used in the facility that  comes
 43    into  contact  with  any  manure, litter, bedding, raw, intermediate, or final
 44    material or product used in or resulting from the production of swine and  any
 45    products  directly  or indirectly used in the operation of a facility, such as
 46    spillage or overflow from  animal  watering  systems;  washing,  cleaning,  or
 47    flushing  pens, barns, manure pits, or spray cooling of animals; and dust con-
 48    trol and any precipitation which comes into contact  with  animals  or  animal
 49    waste.
 50        (28) "Qualified  professional"  means a licensed professional geologist or
 51    licensed professional engineer, as appropriate, holding  current  professional
 52    registration in compliance with applicable provisions of the Idaho Code.
 53        (29) "Unauthorized discharge" means a release of animal waste to the envi-
 54    ronment  or  waters  of the state that is not authorized by the license or the
 55    terms of a national pollutant  discharge  elimination  system  (NPDES)  permit
                                                                        
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  1    issued by the federal environmental protection agency.
  2        (30) "Water  quality  standard" means a standard set for maximum allowable
  3    contamination in surface waters and ground water as set  forth  in  the  water
  4    quality  standards  for  waters  for  the  state  of Idaho, IDAPA 16.01.02 and
  5    16.01.11.
  6        (31) "Waters of the state" means all the accumulations of  water,  surface
  7    and  underground, natural and artificial, public and private, or parts thereof
  8    which are wholly or partially within, which flow through or  border  upon  the
  9    state.
                                                                        
 10        SECTION  74.  That Section 39-7908, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 11    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 12        39-7908.  SITE REVIEW PANELS ESTABLISHED. (1) A site review panel shall be
 13    established to ensure public input in the siting process and to  recommend  to
 14    the director site approval, approval with conditions or rejection.
 15        (2)  A  panel  shall  consist of eight (8) members to be appointed as fol-
 16    lows:
 17        (a)  Three (3) members shall be the administrator director of the division
 18        department of environmental quality or his designee, the director  of  the
 19        department  of  water   resources or his designee, and the director of the
 20        department of agriculture or his designee.
 21        (b)  One (1) member shall be a public member appointed  by  the  governor.
 22        The  public  member shall be an environmental professional, shall serve as
 23        chairman of the panel and shall be a voting member. A member who is a pub-
 24        lic member shall be appointed to serve on site review  panels  only  until
 25        the  particular  site  application subject to their review is approved, or
 26        until the application is rejected  and  is  no  longer  subject  to  their
 27        review.
 28        (c)  Two  (2)  members  shall be appointed by the city council of the city
 29        located closest to, or in which the  swine  facility  is  proposed  to  be
 30        located or expanded, provided the governing body of the city has signified
 31        compliance  with  this chapter as provided in section 39-7903, Idaho Code.
 32        At least one (1) shall be a resident of the city. However, if two (2) cit-
 33        ies are equidistant from the proposed or expanding swine facility, plus or
 34        minus five (5) miles, the city council of  each city shall appoint one (1)
 35        member each to the site review panel, each of whom shall be a resident  of
 36        the  city appointing them. The members serving pursuant to this subsection
 37        shall serve until the particular site application subject to their  review
 38        is approved or it is rejected and is no longer subject to their review.
 39        (d)  Two  (2)  members  shall be appointed by the county commission and be
 40        residents of the county where the swine facility is proposed to be located
 41        or expanded, provided the board of county commissioners has signified com-
 42        pliance with this chapter as provided in section 39-7903, Idaho Code.  The
 43        members serving pursuant to this subsection shall serve until the particu-
 44        lar  site  application  subject  to their review is approved, or until the
 45        application is rejected and is no longer subject to their review.
 46        (e)  A person nominated to represent a city or county  shall  not  have  a
 47        conflict  of  interest,  as  that term is defined in section 59-703, Idaho
 48        Code, or derive any economic gain as  that  term  is  defined  in  section
 49        59-703,  Idaho  Code, from the location of the proposed or expanding swine
 50        facility.
 51        (3)  The director shall notify the city council of the  nearest  city,  or
 52    cities if two (2) cities are within five (5) miles of the site of the proposed
 53    facility,  and the board of county commissioners in which the site is located,
                                                                        
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  1    of a site application filed with the department and shall instruct the city or
  2    cities and county to appoint the necessary members to a panel.
  3        (4)  A majority of members of the panel shall constitute a quorum for  the
  4    transaction  of business of the panel and the concurrence of a majority of the
  5    panel shall constitute a legal action of the panel, provided that  no  meeting
  6    of  the  panel  shall  occur unless there are at least as many members present
  7    representing the city and county as there are representing the state  and  the
  8    public  as  appointed  pursuant to subsections (2)(a) and (b) of this section.
  9    All meetings of the panel shall be conducted pursuant to the state open  meet-
 10    ing law.
 11        (5)  The director shall make staff available to assist the panel in carry-
 12    ing out its responsibilities.
 13        (6)  Members of the panel who are not state employees shall be entitled to
 14    receive compensation as provided in section 59-509(b), Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 15        SECTION  75.  That Section 39-7911, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 16    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 17        39-7911.  FINANCIAL ASSURANCE FOR CLOSURE AND REMEDIATION. (1)  All  swine
 18    facilities  regulated  by  section 39-104A, Idaho Code, and this chapter shall
 19    provide  financial  assurances  demonstrating  financial  capability  to  meet
 20    requirements for closure of the facilities and remediation.  Requirements  for
 21    financial  assurances  shall be determined by the agency as set forth in rule.
 22    Financial assurances may include any mechanism or  combination  of  mechanisms
 23    meeting the requirements established by agency rule including, but not limited
 24    to,  surety  bonds,  trust funds, irrevocable letters of credit, insurance and
 25    corporate guarantees. The mechanism(s) used to demonstrate financial  capabil-
 26    ity  must  be  legally valid, binding and enforceable under applicable law and
 27    must ensure that the  funds  necessary  to  meet  the  costs  of  closure  and
 28    remediation  will be available whenever the funds are needed. The director may
 29    retain financial assurances for up to five (5) years after closure of a facil-
 30    ity to ensure proper closure and remediation, as defined by rule.
 31        (2)  Nothing in this section prohibits the boards of county  commissioners
 32    of any county or the governing body of any city from adopting regulations that
 33    are  more  stringent  or  that require greater financial assurances than those
 34    imposed by the division department of environmental quality.
                                                                        
 35        SECTION 76.  That Section 39-7914, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 36    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 37        39-7914.  CONFIDENTIALITY  OF  RECORDS.  Information  obtained by a public
 38    agency pursuant to this chapter or its associated rules is subject  to  public
 39    disclosure  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  chapter 3, title 9, Idaho Code.
 40    Information submitted under a trade secret claim may be entitled to  confiden-
 41    tial  treatment as provided in section 9-342A, Idaho Code, and IDAPA 16.01.21,
 42    "Rules Governing the Protection and Disclosure of Records in the Possession of
 43    the Idaho Division of Environmental Quality." rules of the department of envi-
 44    ronmental quality.
                                                                        
 45        SECTION 77.  That Section 41-4911, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 46    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 47        41-4911.  STORAGE TANKS ELIGIBLE FOR INSURANCE. (1) Eligible storage tanks
 48    are those tanks that meet all of the following criteria:
 49        (a)  Appropriate  fees required in section 41-4908, Idaho Code, or section
                                                                        
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  1        41-4910A, Idaho Code, have been paid;
  2        (b)  The tank, if an underground  storage  tank,  is  in  compliance  with
  3        applicable  federal  and  state underground storage tank rules and regula-
  4        tions;
  5        (c)  The tank is used only for storage of petroleum products;
  6        (d)  The tank, if an underground storage tank,  passes  a  tank  tightness
  7        test;
  8        (e)  The  tank, if an above ground aboveground storage tank, is in compli-
  9        ance with state and federal rules and regulations  including  the  uniform
 10        fire  code.  If  an  above ground aboveground tank is exempt from state or
 11        federal rules and regulations and/or the uniform fire code  by  virtue  of
 12        its  being installed prior to the effective date of such rules and regula-
 13        tions or the uniform fire code, such tank is not eligible unless it passes
 14        a tank tightness test;
 15        (f)  The tank, if a farm tank or residential tank, is in  compliance  with
 16        any applicable state or federal rules and regulations;
 17        (g)  Any  contamination caused by or released by or from the tank has been
 18        cleaned up, or a plan for cleanup or removal approved by the Idaho depart-
 19        ment of health and welfare, division of environmental  quality,  is  being
 20        implemented;  provided, however, that the trust fund shall not pay for any
 21        costs associated with prior contamination.
 22        (2)  Any tank which is a part of a refiner's terminal or a  tank  directly
 23    supplied by a pipeline shall not be eligible.
                                                                        
 24        SECTION  78.  That Section 41-4947, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 25    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 26        41-4947.  INSURANCE. The coverage provided by the trust  fund  established
 27    pursuant  to  this  chapter  shall be deemed insurance for the purposes of any
 28    requirements of the Idaho department of health and welfare environmental qual-
 29    ity concerning the financial responsibility of owners or operators  of  petro-
 30    leum storage tanks.
                                                                        
 31        SECTION  79.  That  Section 42-227, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 32    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 33        42-227.  DRILLING AND USE OF WELLS FOR  DOMESTIC  PURPOSES  EXCEPTED.  The
 34    excavation  and  opening  of  wells  and the withdrawal of water therefrom for
 35    domestic purposes shall not be subject to the permit requirement under section
 36    42-229, Idaho Code; providing such wells and withdrawal devices are subject to
 37    inspection by the department of water resources and the department  of  health
 38    and  welfare  environmental quality and providing further that the drilling of
 39    such wells shall be subject to the licensing  provisions  of  section  42-238,
 40    Idaho  Code. Rights to ground water for such domestic purposes may be acquired
 41    by withdrawal and use.
                                                                        
 42        SECTION 80.  That Section 42-1503, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 43    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 44        42-1503.  APPLICATION  TO APPROPRIATE -- PROCESS -- JUDICIAL REVIEW. When-
 45    ever the board desires to appropriate a minimum stream flow of the unappropri-
 46    ated waters of any stream, it shall submit an  application  to  the  director.
 47    Such  application shall be made upon forms to be furnished by the director and
 48    shall include:
 49        (a)  The name of the stream and legal description  of  the  point  on  the
                                                                        
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  1    stream where the minimum stream flow is proposed to be appropriated and deter-
  2    mined;
  3        (b)  The minimum stream flow proposed;
  4        (c)  The  purpose  for which the minimum stream flow appropriation is pro-
  5    posed to be made;
  6        (d)  The period of time or season of the year during which said appropria-
  7    tion is proposed; and
  8        (e)  Such other information as shall be required by the form furnished  by
  9    the director.
 10        Upon the receipt of an application filed under the provisions of this act,
 11    the director shall forward a copy thereof to the departments of fish and game,
 12    health  and welfare environmental quality, parks and recreation, and any other
 13    public entity likely to have an interest  or  knowledge  in  the  matter.  The
 14    director  shall also prepare a notice describing the proposed appropriation of
 15    minimum stream flow and cause said notice to be published once  each  week  in
 16    two  (2)  consecutive weekly issues of a newspaper published within the county
 17    where the appropriation of minimum stream flow is proposed, if there  is  such
 18    newspaper,  otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation within the county.
 19    The director may also give other notice of the proposed appropriation in  such
 20    manner  and  to such persons or organizations as he may determine. Such notice
 21    shall specify the time and place for a public hearing to  be  held  concerning
 22    the  proposed appropriation of minimum stream flow. Such hearing shall be held
 23    in accordance with the provisions of section 42-1701A(1) and (2), Idaho  Code.
 24    The  director  shall  have power to administer oaths and to require the atten-
 25    dance of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, and  papers
 26    as he may desire at the hearing and for that purpose the director may apply to
 27    the  district court for a subpoena for any witnesses or a subpoena duces tecum
 28    to compel the production of any books,  records,  or  papers  which  shall  be
 29    served  and returned in the same manner as a subpoena in a civil case. In case
 30    of any disobedience or neglect to obey a subpoena or subpoena duces  tecum  it
 31    shall  be  the duty of the district court in any county of this state in which
 32    such disobedience, neglect, or refusal occurs, or any judge thereof, on appli-
 33    cation by the director, to compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as  in
 34    the  case of a subpoena issued by a regularly constituted court. Upon the con-
 35    clusion of the hearings and completion of any investigation conducted  by  the
 36    director,  he shall enter his findings in writing approving the application in
 37    whole, or in part, or upon conditions or rejecting said application.  Approval
 38    of  any  such application must be based upon a finding that such appropriation
 39    of minimum stream flow:
 40        (a)  will not interfere with any vested  water  right,  permit,  or  water
 41    right application with priority of right date earlier than the date of receipt
 42    in  the  office of the director of a complete application for appropriation of
 43    minimum stream flow filed under the provisions of this act;
 44        (b)  is in the public, as opposed to private, interest;
 45        (c)  is necessary for the  preservation  of  fish  and  wildlife  habitat,
 46    aquatic  life,  recreation,  aesthetic  beauty, navigation, transportation, or
 47    water quality of the stream;
 48        (d)  is the minimum flow or lake level and not the ideal or most desirable
 49    flow or lake level; and
 50        (e)  is capable of being maintained as  evidenced  by  records  of  stream
 51    flows  and  water levels and the existing or future establishment of necessary
 52    gauging stations and bench marks.
 53        A copy of the director's findings shall be mailed to the board and to each
 54    person or organization who gave testimony in support of or  in  opposition  to
 55    the  proposed  appropriation.  The board or any person testifying at a hearing
                                                                        
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  1    who is aggrieved by a decision of the director shall have the  right  to  have
  2    that  decision  reviewed  by the courts pursuant to section 42-1701A(4), Idaho
  3    Code. Approved applications shall be submitted to  each  Llegislature  by  the
  4    fifth  legislative  day  of  each  regular  session, and: (i) shall not become
  5    finally effective until affirmatively acted upon by concurrent  resolution  of
  6    the  Idaho  legislature;  or  (ii) except that if the legislature fails to act
  7    prior to the end of the regular session to which the application  was  submit-
  8    ted, the application shall be considered approved.
                                                                        
  9        SECTION  81.  That Section 42-1711, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 10    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 11        42-1711.  DEFINITIONS. Unless the context otherwise requires, the  follow-
 12    ing definitions govern the construction of this act chapter.
 13        (a)  "Department" means the department of water resources.
 14        (b)  "Dam"  means any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works,
 15    constructed for the purpose of storing water or that stores  water,  which  is
 16    ten  (10)  feet or more in height from the natural bed of the stream or water-
 17    course at the downstream toe of the barrier, as determined by the  department,
 18    or from the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the barrier, if it is not
 19    across  a  stream  channel or watercourse, to the maximum water storage eleva-
 20    tion, or has or will have an impounding capacity at maximum storage  elevation
 21    of  fifty  (50) acre-feet or more. The following are not included as regulated
 22    dams or are not considered dams for the purposes of sections  42-1710  through
 23    42-1721, Idaho Code:
 24        (1)  Barriers constructed in low risk areas as determined by the director,
 25        which are six (6) feet or less in height, regardless of storage capacity.
 26        (2)  Barriers constructed in low risk areas as determined by the director,
 27        which  impound  ten (10) acre-feet or less at maximum water storage eleva-
 28        tion, regardless of height.
 29        (3)  Barriers in a canal used to raise or lower water  therein  or  divert
 30        water therefrom.
 31        (4)  Fills or structures determined by the director to be designed primar-
 32        ily for highway or railroad traffic.
 33        (5)  Fills,  retaining  dikes  or structures less than twenty (20) feet in
 34        height, which are under jurisdiction of the division department  of  envi-
 35        ronmental  quality, department of health and welfare, or the department of
 36        agriculture, determined  by  the  director  of  the  department  of  water
 37        resources  to  be designed primarily for retention or treatment of munici-
 38        pal, livestock, or domestic wastes, or sediment and  wastes  from  produce
 39        washing or food processing plants.
 40        (6)  Levees that store water regardless of storage capacity.
 41        (c)  "Levee"  means  a  retaining structure alongside a natural lake which
 42    has a length that is two hundred (200) times or more greater than its greatest
 43    height measured from the lowest elevation of the toe to the maximum crest ele-
 44    vation of the retaining structure.
 45        (d)  "Reservoir" means any basin which contains or will contain the  water
 46    impounded by a dam.
 47        (e)  "Owner"  includes  any  of  the  following who own, control, operate,
 48    maintain, manage, or propose to construct a dam, reservoir  or  mine  tailings
 49    impoundment structure:
 50        (1)  The  state  of  Idaho and its departments, agencies, institutions and
 51        political subdivisions;
 52        (2)  The United States of America and any  of  its  departments,  bureaus,
 53        agencies  and  institutions;  provided  that  the United States of America
                                                                        
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  1        shall not be required to pay any of the fees required by section  42-1713,
  2        Idaho  Code,  and  shall  submit  plans,  drawings  and  specifications as
  3        required by section 42-1712, Idaho Code, for information purposes only;
  4        (3)  Every municipal or quasi-municipal corporation;
  5        (4)  Every public utility;
  6        (5)  Every person, firm, association, organization, partnership,  business
  7        trust, corporation or company;
  8        (6)  The  duly authorized agents, lessees, or trustees of any of the fore-
  9        going; or
 10        (7)  Receivers or trustees appointed by any court for any of  the  forego-
 11        ing.
 12        (f)  "Alterations,"  "repairs,"  or either of them, mean only such altera-
 13    tions or repairs as may directly affect the safety of the  dam,  reservoir  or
 14    mine tailings impoundment structure, as determined by the department.
 15        (g)  "Enlargement"  means  any  change  in or addition to an existing dam,
 16    reservoir or mine tailings impoundment structure, which raises  or  may  raise
 17    the water storage elevation of the water impounded by the dam or mine tailings
 18    slurry impounded by the mine tailings impoundment structure.
 19        (h)  "Water  storage  elevation" means the maximum elevation of water sur-
 20    face which can be obtained by the dam or reservoir.
 21        (i)  "Storage capacity" means the total storage  at  the  maximum  storage
 22    elevation.
 23        (j)  "Days"  used  in establishing deadlines means calendar days including
 24    Sundays and holidays.
 25        (k)  "Certificate of approval" means a certificate issued by the  director
 26    for  all  dams  or  mine  tailings impoundment structures listing restrictions
 27    imposed by the director, and without which no new dams  shall  be  allowed  to
 28    impound  water  or  mine  tailings  impoundment structures shall be allowed to
 29    impound mine tailings slurry.
 30        (l)  "Mine tailings impoundment structure" means any artificial embankment
 31    which is or will be more than thirty (30) feet in  height  measured  from  the
 32    lowest elevation of the toe to the maximum crest elevation constructed for the
 33    purpose of storing mine tailings slurry.
 34        (m)  "Lift   construction"   means  mine  tailings  impoundment  structure
 35    enlargement by raising the elevation of the structure on a continuous  or  re-
 36    curring  basis.  Such practice will be considered under construction until the
 37    structure reaches its final crest elevation.
 38        (n)  "Mine tailings impoundment elevation" means the maximum elevation  of
 39    stored mine tailings which can be obtained by the impounding structure.
 40        (o)  "Mine  tailings  slurry" means all slurry wastes from a mineral proc-
 41    essing or mining operation.
 42        (p)  "Mine tailings storage capacity" means the total  storage  volume  of
 43    the  impounding area when filled with tailings to the maximum designed storage
 44    elevation.
                                                                        
 45        SECTION 82.  That Section 42-1734, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 46    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 47        42-1734.  POWERS AND DUTIES. The board shall, subject to the provisions of
 48    chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, have the following powers and duties:
 49        (1)  To have and exercise all of the rights, powers, duties and privileges
 50    vested  by  article  XV,  section  7, of the constitution of this state in the
 51    water resource agency, and the water resource board, herein created, is hereby
 52    constituted the water resource agency;
 53        (2)  To institute judicial proceedings to have water rights established by
                                                                        
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  1    court decree on any stream, lake or underground water basin; in such  proceed-
  2    ings  court  costs  of  the  action, including the survey and determination of
  3    water uses by the director of the department  of  water  resources,  shall  be
  4    borne by the state;
  5        (3)  To appear, when requested by the governor, on behalf of and represent
  6    the  state in matters related to its duties in any proceeding, negotiation, or
  7    hearing involving the federal government or other  state;  provided,  however,
  8    that  compact  commissions now established by law shall continue to act but in
  9    so doing shall report to it;
 10        (4)  To accept, receive, initiate, investigate, consider and promote  such
 11    water projects as it deems to be in the public interest;
 12        (5)  To  generate and wholesale hydroelectric power at the site of produc-
 13    tion if such power production is connected with another purpose for such proj-
 14    ect;
 15        (6)  To file applications and obtain permits in the name of the board,  to
 16    appropriate,  store,  or use the unappropriated waters of any body, stream, or
 17    other surface or underground source of water for specific water projects. Such
 18    filings and appropriations by the board, or any water rights owned or  claimed
 19    by the board, shall be made in the same manner and subject to all of the state
 20    laws  relating  to  appropriation  of water, with the exception that the board
 21    will not be required to pay any fees required by the laws of  this  state  for
 22    its  appropriations. The filings and appropriations by the board shall be sub-
 23    ject  to  contest  or  legal  action  the  same  as  any  other   filing   and
 24    appropriation,  and  such  filings  and appropriations shall not have priority
 25    over or affect existing prior water rights of any  kind  or  nature;  provided
 26    that  the board shall have the right to file for water rights with appropriate
 27    officials of other states as trustee for project users, and to do  all  things
 28    necessary in connection therewith;
 29        (7)  To  finance said projects with revenue bonds or such moneys as may be
 30    available;
 31        (8)  To acquire, purchase, lease, or exchange land, rights, water  rights,
 32    easements,  franchises  and  other property deemed necessary or proper for the
 33    construction, operation and maintenance of water projects;
 34        (9)  To exercise, in accordance with the provisions of title 7, chapter 7,
 35    Idaho Code, the right of eminent domain to acquire property necessary for  the
 36    construction of projects, both land and water;
 37        (10) To  cooperate in all water studies, planning, research, or activities
 38    with any state or local agency in this state, or any other state or  any  fed-
 39    eral  agency and to enter into contracts with federal, state and local govern-
 40    mental agencies to effect this purpose;
 41        (11) To present to the governor for presentation to  the  legislature  not
 42    later  than  the 30th of November prior to the convening of a regular legisla-
 43    tive session the final report containing the complete plans, costs and  feasi-
 44    bility  estimates  for  any  water project which the board recommends that the
 45    state construct in accordance with the comprehensive state water plan; and  to
 46    construct any water project specifically authorized by the legislature;
 47        (12) To  enter into contracts with political subdivisions, municipal enti-
 48    ties, individuals and others for the rehabilitation  and  repair  of  existing
 49    irrigation projects and irrigation facilities, the sale and/or lease of water,
 50    use  of  water,  water storage, electric power, or other service, to turn over
 51    projects to water users after pay-out and to lease facilities, sell, lease  or
 52    dispose of surplus facilities subject to the provisions of applicable law;
 53        (13) To enter into contracts to effect the purposes of this act chapter;
 54        (14) To sue and be sued;
 55        (15) To  study  and examine pollution of rivers, streams, lakes and ground
                                                                        
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  1    water, and to advise, cooperate and counsel with the state board of health and
  2    welfare environmental quality in a manner designed to avoid inhibition of eco-
  3    nomic development and at the same time insure  the  right  of  the  people  to
  4    comfortably  enjoy  our  water  resources  and accomplish the establishment of
  5    water quality criteria;
  6        (16) To call upon any other state agency for  cooperation,  assistance  or
  7    use of information available to such agency; provided, however, if such agency
  8    is  required  to  make substantial expenditures in responding to such request,
  9    appropriate arrangements for compensation may be accomplished;
 10        (17) To issue revenue bonds for the rehabilitation and repair of  existing
 11    irrigation  projects and irrigation facilities, and for water projects, pledge
 12    any revenues available to the board to secure said  bonds,  exclusive  of  any
 13    revenues  derived  from legislative appropriations, and pool revenues from one
 14    (1) or more projects constructed, financed or operated by the board, or exist-
 15    ing irrigation project or facilities rehabilitated or repaired by the board;
 16        (18) To formulate and recommend, prior to each session of the legislature,
 17    proposed legislation that may be necessary to assist it in effecting a  proper
 18    plan  for  conservation,  development  and  utilization of water resources and
 19    waterways and to report to each session of the legislature on the public busi-
 20    ness entrusted to its care and the financial affairs  of  the  board.  In  the
 21    period between legislative sessions, the board shall deposit with the legisla-
 22    tive  council  statements describing all actions taken and projects undertaken
 23    by it;
 24        (19) To issue procedural and operative rules and  regulations  as  may  be
 25    necessary for the conduct of its business;
 26        (20) To appoint advisory boards when deemed desirable to aid in the execu-
 27    tion of its powers;
 28        (21) To take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its duties
 29    and powers under this act chapter and the constitution of the state of Idaho;
 30        (22) To  loan without prior legislative approval, the proceeds of the sale
 31    of revenue bonds to the local water project sponsor or sponsors; to enter into
 32    lease, sale or loan agreement; and to purchase all or a portion of, or partic-
 33    ipate in, loans, originated by private lending institutions.
                                                                        
 34        SECTION 83.  That Section 42-1805, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 35    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 36        42-1805.  ADDITIONAL  DUTIES.  In  addition  to other duties prescribed by
 37    law, the director of the department of water resources shall have the  follow-
 38    ing powers and duties:
 39        (1)  To  represent  the  state in all matters pertaining to interstate and
 40    international water rights affecting Idaho water resources; and  to  cooperate
 41    with all agencies, now existing or hereafter to be formed, within the state or
 42    within  other jurisdictions, in matters affecting the development of the water
 43    resources of this state.
 44        (2)  To prepare a present and continuing inventory of the water  resources
 45    of  this state, ascertain means and methods of conserving and augmenting these
 46    and determine as accurately as possible the  most  effective  means  by  which
 47    these  water  resources  may  be applied for the benefit of the people of this
 48    state.
 49        (3)  To conduct surveys, tests,  investigations,  research,  examinations,
 50    studies,  and  estimates  of  cost  relating to availability of unappropriated
 51    water, effective use of existing supply, conservation,  storage,  distribution
 52    and use of water.
 53        (4)  To  prepare and compile information and data obtained and to make the
                                                                        
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  1    same available to interested individuals or agencies.
  2        (5)  To cooperate with and coordinate activities  with  the  administrator
  3    director of the division department of environmental protection of the depart-
  4    ment  of health and welfare quality as such activities relate to the functions
  5    of either or both departments concerning water quality. Such  cooperation  and
  6    coordination shall specifically require that:
  7        (a)  The  director meet at least quarterly with the administrator director
  8        of the department of environmental quality and his staff to discuss  water
  9        quality  programs.  A  copy of the minutes of such meeting shall be trans-
 10        mitted to the governor.
 11        (b)  The director transmit to the administrator, director of  the  depart-
 12        ment of environmental quality reports and information prepared by him per-
 13        taining to water quality programs, and proposed rules and regulations per-
 14        taining to water quality programs.
 15        (c)  The  director  shall  make available to the administrator director of
 16        the department of environmental quality and the administrator director  of
 17        the department of environmental quality shall make available to the direc-
 18        tor all notices of hearings relating to the promulgation of rules and reg-
 19        ulations  relating  to  water quality, waste discharge permits, and stream
 20        channel alteration, as such directly affect water quality, and notices  of
 21        any other hearings and meetings which relate to water quality.
 22        (6)  To  perform  administrative  duties  and  such other functions as the
 23    board may from time to time assign to the director  to  enable  the  board  to
 24    carry out its powers and duties.
 25        (7)  After notice, to suspend the issuance or further action on permits or
 26    applications as necessary to protect existing vested water rights or to ensure
 27    compliance with  the provisions of chapter 2, title 42, Idaho Code, or to pre-
 28    vent violation of minimum flow provisions of the state water plan.
 29        (8)  To  promulgate,  adopt,  modify, repeal and enforce rules and regula-
 30    tions implementing or effectuating the powers and duties of the department.
 31        (9)  To seek a preliminary or permanent injunction, or both, or  a  tempo-
 32    rary  restraining order restraining any person from violating or attempting to
 33    violate (a) those provisions of law relating to all aspects of the  appropria-
 34    tion  of water, distribution of water, headgates and measuring devices; or (b)
 35    the administrative or judicial orders entered in accordance  with  the  provi-
 36    sions of law.
 37        (10) To  develop,  coordinate  and  provide,  through contract or by other
 38    means, for weather modification projects  involving  cloud  seeding  that  are
 39    designed to increase the water supplies of the state by enhancing natural pre-
 40    cipitation and which conform to state water planning objectives. To accomplish
 41    these  purposes  the  director  is authorized to accept and use funds acquired
 42    through legislative appropriation or by gift, grant, contribution  or  funding
 43    received  from  any private or public individual or entity. All funds accepted
 44    under this provision shall be transmitted to the state treasurer  for  deposit
 45    in the water administration account fund and shall be reserved and made avail-
 46    able  until  expended as ordered by the director for weather modification pur-
 47    poses determined by the director to be beneficial.
 48        (11) To develop and implement a plan for data gathering to  determine  any
 49    effect  of  the  weather  modification  efforts  in  which  the  department is
 50    involved.
                                                                        
 51        SECTION 84.  That Section 42-3902, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 52    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 53        42-3902.  DEFINITIONS. Whenever used in this chapter:
                                                                        
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  1        (1)  "Aquifer"  means  any  geologic  formation that will yield water to a
  2    well in sufficient quantities to make production of water from  the  formation
  3    feasible  for  beneficial use, except when the water in such formation results
  4    solely from injection through a waste disposal and injection well.
  5        (2)  "Director" means the director of the department of water resources.
  6        (3)  "Drinking water source" means an aquifer which contains water  having
  7    less  than  10,000  mg/l total dissolved solids and has not been exempted from
  8    this designation by the director of the department of water resources.
  9        (4)  "Fluid" means any material or substance which flows or moves  whether
 10    in a semisolid, liquid, sludge, gaseous or any other form or state.
 11        (5)  "Formation" means a body of consolidated or unconsolidated rock char-
 12    acterized  by  a  degree  of  lithologic  homogeneity which is mappable at the
 13    earth's surface or traceable in the subsurface.
 14        (6)  "Hazardous waste" means any fluid or combination of fluids, excluding
 15    radioactive wastes, which because of quantity, concentration  or  characteris-
 16    tics (physical, chemical or biological) may:
 17        (a)  Cause  or  significantly  contribute  to  an increase in deaths or an
 18        increase in serious, irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
 19        (b)  Pose a substantial threat to human health or to  the  environment  if
 20        improperly  treated, stored, disposed of, or managed. Such wastes include,
 21        but are not limited to, materials which are toxic,  corrosive,  ignitable,
 22        or reactive, or materials which may have mutagenic, teratogenic, or carci-
 23        nogenic  properties,  but  do  not  include solid or dissolved material in
 24        domestic sewage or solid or dissolved material in irrigation return flows.
 25        (7)  "Injection" means the subsurface emplacement of fluids.
 26        (8)  "Injection well" means any excavation or artificial opening into  the
 27    ground which meets the following three (3) criteria:
 28        (a)  It  is  a  bored, drilled or dug hole, or is a driven mine shaft or a
 29        driven well point; and
 30        (b)  It is deeper than its largest straight-line surface dimension; and
 31        (c)  It is used for or intended to be used for injection.
 32        (9)  "Irrigation waste water" means surplus water diverted for  irrigation
 33    but  not  applied  to  crops or runoff of surplus water from the cropland as a
 34    result of irrigation.
 35        (10)  "Licensed driller" means any person holding a valid license to drill
 36    water wells in Idaho as provided and defined in section 42-238, Idaho Code.
 37        (11)  "Operate" means to allow fluids to enter an injection well by action
 38    or by inaction of the operator.
 39        (12)  "Operator" means any individual, group of individuals,  partnership,
 40    company,  corporation,  municipality, county, state agency, taxing district or
 41    federal agency who operates or proposes to operate any injection well.
 42        (13)  "Owner" means any individual,  group  of  individuals,  partnership,
 43    company,  corporation, municipality, county, state agency, taxing district, or
 44    federal agency owning land on which any injection well exists or  is  proposed
 45    to be constructed.
 46        (14)  "Radioactive  material"  means  any  material,  solid, liquid or gas
 47    which emits radiation spontaneously.
 48        (15)  "Radioactive waste" means any fluid which contains radioactive mate-
 49    rial in concentrations which exceed those established for discharges to  water
 50    in an unrestricted area by the board of health and welfare environmental qual-
 51    ity under the provisions of chapter 30, title 39, Idaho Code.
 52        (16)  "Shallow  injection well" means an injection well which is less than
 53    or equal to eighteen (18) feet in vertical depth below land surface.
 54        (17)  "Sanitary waste" means any fluid generated through domestic  activi-
 55    ties, such as food preparation, cleaning and personal hygiene.
                                                                        
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  1        (18)  "Surface  runoff  water"  means runoff water from the natural ground
  2    surface and cropland. Runoff from urbanized areas, such  as  streets,  parking
  3    lots,  airports,  and  runoff  from  animal  feedlots, agricultural processing
  4    facilities and similar facilities are not included within the  scope  of  this
  5    term.
  6        (19)  "Waste disposal and injection well" means an injection well which is
  7    more than eighteen (18) feet in vertical depth below land surface.
                                                                        
  8        SECTION  85.  That Section 42-3910, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  9    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 10        42-3910.  CANCELLATION OF PERMIT -- NOTICE -- HEARING -- REVIEW. When  the
 11    director of the department of water resources has reason to believe the opera-
 12    tion  and  use  of  an  injection  well, for which a permit has been issued in
 13    accordance with this chapter, is interfering with the right of the  public  to
 14    withdraw  water  for beneficial uses, or is causing unreasonable contamination
 15    or deterioration of the quality of the ground water below  the  adopted  water
 16    quality standards of the board of health and welfare environmental quality, he
 17    may  cancel  such permit. Prior to the cancellation of such permit there shall
 18    be a hearing before the water resource board for the  purpose  of  determining
 19    whether or not the permit should be cancelled. At such hearing the director of
 20    the department of water resources shall be the complaining party. For purposes
 21    of  such hearing, the board shall have power to administer oaths, examine wit-
 22    nesses and issue subpoenas requiring testimony of witnesses and production  of
 23    evidence relevant to any matter in the hearing. The hearing shall be conducted
 24    in  accordance with chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, and the board shall pro-
 25    vide the owner or operator whose permit is proposed to be cancelled with  rea-
 26    sonable  notice and the opportunity to be heard in accordance with chapter 52,
 27    title 67, Idaho Code. A certified transcript of the proceedings and  the  evi-
 28    dence  received  at  such  hearing shall be maintained by the board. The board
 29    shall affirm, modify or reject the director's decision, and make its  decision
 30    in  the  form  of an order to the director. Review of a final determination by
 31    the board may be secured by the owner or operator by  filing  a  petition  for
 32    review  as  prescribed  by  chapter  52, title 67, Idaho Code, in the district
 33    court of the county wherein the injection well is situated. The  petition  for
 34    review  shall be served upon the chairman of the water resource board and upon
 35    the attorney general as provided by the Idaho rules of civil procedure.
                                                                        
 36        SECTION 86.  That Section 46-1019, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 37    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 38        46-1019.  EMERGENCY  RESPONSE.  (1)  There  is hereby created an emergency
 39    response commission in the office of the governor. The commission  shall  con-
 40    sist  of the following state and local officials, industry representatives, or
 41    their designees: the adjutant general of the Idaho national guard; the  direc-
 42    tor  of  the  department  of  health  and welfare; the state fire marshal; the
 43    director of the Idaho state police; the director of the  Idaho  transportation
 44    department; the director of the department of agriculture; the director of the
 45    department of lands; the director of the Idaho geological survey; the director
 46    of  the department of water resources; the director of the department of envi-
 47    ronmental quality; the coordinator for INEEL oversight; one (1) member  repre-
 48    senting  Idaho  cities; one (1) member of an organization representing farmers
 49    or ranchers; one (1) member representing Idaho counties; one (1) member repre-
 50    senting the hazardous waste or materials transportation industry; one (1) mem-
 51    ber representing a user of hazardous materials; one  (1)  member  representing
                                                                        
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  1    the  Idaho  state  fire  chief's  association; one (1) member representing the
  2    Idaho county sheriff's association; one (1) member of the Idaho police chief's
  3    association; one (1) member representing the Idaho emergency management  asso-
  4    ciation; and one (1) member at-large representing the citizens of the state of
  5    Idaho.  The  last ten (10) members shall be appointed by the governor to serve
  6    staggered three (3) year terms. The manager of the bureau of disaster services
  7    and the manager of the bureau of hazardous materials shall be  nonvoting  mem-
  8    bers  of  the commission. All members shall serve without compensation, except
  9    that members who are not state officers or employees shall be  compensated  as
 10    provided in section 59-509(g), Idaho Code. The governor shall appoint a chair-
 11    man  from  the appointees. The attorney general shall provide legal counsel to
 12    the commission.
 13        (2)  The commission shall act as an all-hazards advisory and  coordinating
 14    body  to  the  governor for all types of disasters and emergencies which could
 15    affect the citizens of Idaho. They shall review, evaluate, report  and  advise
 16    the governor on state and local plans and programs to prepare for, respond to,
 17    and recover from all types of disaster emergencies.
                                                                        
 18        SECTION  87.  That Section 47-1315, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 19    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 20        47-1315.  WATER CLARIFICATION. Where  any  person  conducts  a  placer  or
 21    dredge  mining operation where the water used in such mining process flows in,
 22    or into a natural watercourse, such person shall construct  and  use  settling
 23    ponds  of  sufficient capacity and character and/or install and use filtration
 24    processes fully adequate to clarify the water used in the  mining  process  to
 25    conform  to  the  standards  and  regulations rules of the state department of
 26    health and welfare environmental quality  regarding water  quality  as  autho-
 27    rized  under  chapter 1, title 39, Idaho Code, before such water is discharged
 28    into the natural watercourse.
                                                                        
 29        SECTION 88.  That Section 47-1513, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 30    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 31        47-1513.  OPERATOR'S  FAILURE TO COMPLY -- FORFEITURE OF BOND -- PENALTIES
 32    -- RECLAMATION FUND. (a) Whenever the board determines that  an  operator  has
 33    not  complied with the provisions of this act, the board may notify the opera-
 34    tor of such noncompliance, and may by private  conference,  conciliation,  and
 35    persuasion,  endeavor  to  remedy  such violation. In the event of a violation
 36    referred to in subsections (d) and (e) of this section, the board may  proceed
 37    without an administrative action, hearing or decision to exercise the remedies
 38    set forth in said subsections. Additionally, no administrative action, hearing
 39    or decision shall be required from the Idaho board of health and welfare envi-
 40    ronmental  quality prior to the board proceeding under subsections (d) and (e)
 41    of this section. In the event of the failure of any  conference,  conciliation
 42    and  persuasion  to  remedy any alleged violation, the board may cause to have
 43    issued and served upon the operator alleged to be committing such violation, a
 44    formal complaint which shall specify the provisions  of  this  act  which  the
 45    operator  allegedly  is  violating,  and  a statement of the manner in and the
 46    extent to which said operator is alleged to be  violating  the  provisions  of
 47    this  act.  Such complaint may be served by certified mail, and return receipt
 48    signed by the operator, an officer of a corporate operator, or the  designated
 49    agent  of the operator shall constitute service. The operator shall answer the
 50    complaint and request a hearing before a  designated  hearing  officer  within
 51    thirty (30) days from receipt of the complaint if matters asserted in the com-
                                                                        
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  1    plaint are disputed. If the operator fails to answer the complaint and request
  2    a  hearing,  the matters asserted in the complaint shall be deemed admitted by
  3    the operator, and the board may proceed to cancel  the  reclamation  plan  and
  4    forfeit  the  bond  in  the  amount  necessary to reclaim affected lands. Upon
  5    request for a hearing by an operator,  the  board  shall  schedule  a  hearing
  6    before a hearing officer appointed by the board at a time not less than thirty
  7    (30)  days  after  the  date  the operator requests a hearing. The board shall
  8    issue subpoenas at the request of the director of the department of lands  and
  9    at the request of the charged operator, and the matter shall be otherwise han-
 10    dled  and  conducted  in accordance with chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code. The
 11    hearing officer shall, pursuant to said hearing, enter an order in  accordance
 12    with  chapter  52,  title  67,  Idaho Code, which, if adverse to the operator,
 13    shall designate a time period within which corrective action should be  taken.
 14    The  time period designated shall be long enough to allow the operator, in the
 15    exercise of reasonable diligence, to rectify any failure to comply  designated
 16    in  said  order. In the event that the operator takes such action as is neces-
 17    sary to comply with the order within the time period designated in said order,
 18    no further action shall be taken by the board to compel performance under  the
 19    act.
 20        (b)  Upon  request of the board, the attorney general shall institute pro-
 21    ceedings to have the bond of an operator forfeited for the  violation  by  the
 22    operator of an order entered pursuant to this section.
 23        (c)  The  forfeiture  of  such bond shall fully satisfy all obligations of
 24    the operator to reclaim the affected land under the provisions of this act. If
 25    the violation involves an operator that has not furnished a bond  required  by
 26    this  act,  or  an operator that is not required to furnish a bond pursuant to
 27    this act, or an operator who violates  this  act  by  performing  an  act  not
 28    included  in  the  original approved reclamation plan, and such departure from
 29    the plan is not subsequently approved, such operator shall  be  subject  to  a
 30    civil  penalty  for his failure to comply with such order in the amount deter-
 31    mined by the board to be the anticipated cost  of  reasonable  reclamation  of
 32    affected lands.
 33        (d)  Notwithstanding  any other provisions of this act, the board may com-
 34    mence an action without bond or undertaking, in the name of the state of Idaho
 35    to enjoin any operator who is conducting operations without an approved recla-
 36    mation plan required by section 47-1506,  Idaho  Code,  or  without  the  bond
 37    required  by this act. The court, or a judge thereof at chambers, if satisfied
 38    from the complaint or by affidavits that such acts have been or are being com-
 39    mitted, shall issue a temporary restraining  order  without  notice  or  bond,
 40    enjoining the defendant, his agents, and employees from conducting such opera-
 41    tions  without  said  reclamation  plan  or bond. Upon a showing of good cause
 42    therefor, the temporary restraining order may require the defendant to perform
 43    reclamation of the mined area in conformity with sections 47-1509 and 47-1510,
 44    Idaho Code, pending final disposition of the action.  The  action  shall  then
 45    proceed  as in other cases for injunctions. If it is established at trial that
 46    the defendant has operated without an approved reclamation plan or  bond,  the
 47    court  shall  enter,  in  addition  to any other order, a decree enjoining the
 48    defendant, his agents and employees from thereafter conducting such activities
 49    or similar actions in violation of this act. The  board  may,  in  conjunction
 50    with its injunctive procedures, proceed in the same or in a separate action to
 51    recover from an operator who is conducting surface mining or exploration oper-
 52    ations  without the required plan or bond, the cost of performing the reclama-
 53    tion activities required by sections 47-1509 and 47-1510, Idaho Code, from any
 54    such operator who has not filed a bond to cover the cost  of  the  reclamation
 55    required.
                                                                        
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  1        (e)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the board may, with-
  2    out  bond  or  undertaking  and  without any administrative action, hearing or
  3    decision, commence an action in the name of the state of Idaho (1) to enjoin a
  4    permitted surface mining operation when, under an existing approved  plan,  an
  5    operator  violates  the  terms of the plan and where immediate and irreparable
  6    injury, loss or damage may result to the state and (2) to recover  the  penal-
  7    ties and to collect civil damages provided for by law.
  8        (f)  In  addition  to the procedures set forth in subsections (a), (d) and
  9    (e) of this section, and in addition to the civil penalty provided in  subsec-
 10    tion  (c)  of this section, any operator who violates any of the provisions of
 11    this act or rules adopted pursuant thereto, or who fails to perform the duties
 12    imposed by these provisions, or who violates any determination or  order  pro-
 13    mulgated  pursuant  to  the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a civil
 14    penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than  two  thou-
 15    sand  five  hundred  dollars ($2,500) for each day during which such violation
 16    continues, and in addition may be enjoined  from  continuing  such  violation.
 17    Such  penalties  shall  be recoverable in an action brought in the name of the
 18    state of Idaho by the attorney general in the district court  for  the  county
 19    where  the  violation,  or some part thereof, occurs, or in the district court
 20    for the county wherein the defendant resides.  All  sums  recovered  shall  be
 21    placed  in  the  state treasury and credited to the surface mining reclamation
 22    fund, which is hereby created, to be used to reclaim  affected  lands  and  to
 23    administer this act.
 24        (g)  Any person who wilfully and knowingly falsifies any records, informa-
 25    tion,  plans,  specifications, or other data required by the board or wilfully
 26    fails, neglects, or refuses to comply with any of the provisions of  this  act
 27    shall  be  guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less
 28    than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and not more  than  five  thousand  dollars
 29    ($5,000) or imprisonment not to exceed one (1) year or both.
 30        (h)  Reclamation  plans approved by the board as of January 1, 1997, shall
 31    be deemed to be in full compliance with the requirements of this act. However,
 32    the board may periodically  review,  and  revise  if  necessary  to  meet  the
 33    requirements  of  sections  47-1506, 47-1509, 47-1510 and 47-1511, Idaho Code,
 34    the amount, terms and conditions of any bond when there is a  material  change
 35    in the reclamation plan or a material change in the estimated reasonable costs
 36    of  reclamation  determined pursuant to section 47-1512, Idaho Code. Any revi-
 37    sion to the amount, terms and conditions of a bond due to a material change in
 38    the reclamation plan shall apply only to the affected  lands  covered  by  the
 39    material change in the reclamation plan.
                                                                        
 40        SECTION  89.  That Section 49-2203, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 41    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 42        49-2203.  ENDORSEMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR  TRANSPORTERS  OF  HAZARDOUS  MATE-
 43    RIALS.  (1)  Every person, including a private carrier or a common or contract
 44    carrier, who operates a vehicle on any highway of this state transporting haz-
 45    ardous material in such quantity and under such conditions that  such  vehicle
 46    is required to be placarded pursuant to title 49, code of federal regulations,
 47    part  172,  or  such vehicle's cargo is regulated by title 49, code of federal
 48    regulations, part 171, or is required to meet the manifest requirements as set
 49    forth under the rules of the bureau  of  hazardous  materials,  department  of
 50    health and welfare environmental quality, shall first procure from the depart-
 51    ment  an annual vehicle registration endorsement or single trip vehicle regis-
 52    tration endorsement for each vehicle so driven. This registration  endorsement
 53    shall  be  available for examination and shall be displayed in accordance with
                                                                        
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  1    rules adopted by the department. The provisions  of  this  section  shall  not
  2    apply  to  vehicles  owned  by any city, county, state or federal governmental
  3    department or agency or special purpose district created pursuant to law.
  4        (2)  The fee for an annual vehicle registration endorsement for the trans-
  5    portation of hazardous materials shall be three dollars ($3.00)  if  purchased
  6    at  the  time of registration or renewal, or five dollars ($5.00) if purchased
  7    at any time thereafter and the fee for  a  single  trip  vehicle  registration
  8    endorsement shall be five dollars ($5.00). Any carrier required to pay the fee
  9    assessed  pursuant to this section is authorized to pass along such fee to the
 10    shipping party. Vendors selling endorsements on behalf of the board  shall  be
 11    reimbursed at the rate of forty cents (40) per endorsement. No portion of the
 12    annual  endorsement  fee  shall be prorated, reduced or transferred to another
 13    vehicle.
 14        (3)  The operation of a vehicle,  which  is  subject  to  the  endorsement
 15    requirements of this section, in a negligent manner is a violation of the pro-
 16    visions of this chapter.
                                                                        
 17        SECTION  90.  That Section 50-1326, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 18    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 19        50-1326.  ALL PLATS TO BEAR A SANITARY RESTRICTION -- SUBMISSION OF  PLANS
 20    AND  SPECIFICATIONS  OF WATER AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS TO STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
 21    AND WELFARE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY  --  REMOVAL  OR  REIMPOSITION  OF  SANITARY
 22    RESTRICTION. For the purposes of sections 50-1326 through 50-1329, Idaho Code,
 23    any plat of a subdivision filed in accordance with chapter 13, title 50, Idaho
 24    Code,  or in accordance with county ordinances adopted pursuant to chapter 38,
 25    title 31, Idaho Code, shall be subject  to  the  sanitary  restriction.  There
 26    shall  be placed upon the face of every plat prior to it being recorded by the
 27    county clerk and recorder, the  sanitary  restriction,  except  such  sanitary
 28    restriction may be omitted from the plat, or if it appears on the plat, may be
 29    indorsed  by  the county clerk and recorder as sanitary restriction satisfied,
 30    when there is recorded at the time of the filing of the plat, or at  any  time
 31    subsequent  thereto, a duly acknowledged certificate of approval issued by the
 32    director of the department of health and welfare  environmental  quality,  for
 33    either public water and/or public sewer facilities, or individual water and/or
 34    sewage facilities for the particular land. The owner shall have the obligation
 35    of  submitting  to  the director all information necessary concerning the pro-
 36    posed facilities referred to. Such certificate of approval may be  issued  for
 37    the  subdivision  or any portion thereof. Until the sanitary restrictions have
 38    been satisfied by the filing of said certificate of approval, no  owner  shall
 39    construct any building or shelter on said premises which necessitates the sup-
 40    plying of water or sewage facilities for persons using such premises. The san-
 41    itary  restrictions shall be reimposed on the plat upon the issuance of a cer-
 42    tificate of disapproval after notice to the responsible party and an  opportu-
 43    nity  to  appeal, if construction is not in compliance with approved plans and
 44    specifications, or the facilities do not substantially comply with  regulatory
 45    standards in effect at the time of facility construction.
                                                                        
 46        SECTION  91.  That Section 50-1327, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 47    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 48        50-1327.  FILING OR RECORDING OF NONCOMPLYING MAP OR PLAT  PROHIBITED.  No
 49    person shall offer for recording, or cause to be recorded, a plat not contain-
 50    ing  a  sanitary restriction, unless there is submitted for record at the same
 51    time the certificate of approval from the director of the department of health
                                                                        
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  1    and welfare environmental quality as required in section 50-1326, Idaho  Code.
  2    The  filing  and recording of a noncomplying plat shall in no way invalidate a
  3    title conveyed thereunder.
                                                                        
  4        SECTION 92.  That Section 50-1328, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
  5    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  6        50-1328.  RULES   FOR  THE  ADMINISTRATION  AND  ENFORCEMENT  OF  SANITARY
  7    RESTRICTION. The state board of health and welfare environmental  quality  may
  8    adopt  rules  pursuant to section 39-107(8), Idaho Code, including adoption of
  9    sanitary standards necessary for administration and enforcement,  pursuant  to
 10    section  39-108,  Idaho Code, of sections 50-1326 through 50-1329, Idaho Code.
 11    The rules and standards shall provide  the  basis  for  approving  subdivision
 12    plats  for various types of water and sewage facilities, both public and indi-
 13    vidual, and may be related to size of lots, contour of land, porosity of soil,
 14    ground water level, pollution of water, type of construction of water and sew-
 15    age facilities, and other factors for the protection of the public  health  or
 16    the environment.
                                                                        
 17        SECTION  93.  That Section 50-1329, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 18    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 19        50-1329.  VIOLATION A MISDEMEANOR. Any person,  firm  or  corporation  who
 20    constructs,  or  causes  to be constructed, a building or shelter prior to the
 21    satisfaction of the sanitary restriction, or who  installs  or  causes  to  be
 22    installed  water  and sewer facilities thereon prior to the issuance of a cer-
 23    tificate of approval by the director of the department of health  and  welfare
 24    environmental  quality,  shall  be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each and every day
 25    that such activities are carried on in violation of this section shall consti-
 26    tute a separate and distinct offense.
                                                                        
 27        SECTION 94.  That Section 50-1703, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 28    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 29        50-1703.  POWERS  CONFERRED.  (a)  The  governing body of any municipality
 30    shall have power to make or cause to be made any one (1) or more  or  combina-
 31    tion of the following improvements:
 32        (1)  To  establish  grades  and lay out, establish, open, extend and widen
 33        any local, collector, arterial or other street, sidewalk,  alley  or  off-
 34        street parking facility;
 35        (2)  To purchase, acquire, construct, improve, repair, light, grade, pave,
 36        repave,  surface,  resurface,  curb,  gutter,  sewer, drain, landscape and
 37        beautify any street, sidewalk or alley;
 38        (3)  To purchase,  construct,  reconstruct,  extend,  maintain  or  repair
 39        bridges,  sidewalks,  crosswalks,  driveways,  culverts,  sanitary sewers,
 40        storm sewers, ditches, drains, conduits, flood barriers and  channels  for
 41        sanitary  and drainage purposes, or either or both thereof, with inlets or
 42        outlets, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, treatment  systems  and  all
 43        other  sewer  and drainage appurtenances necessary for the comfort, conve-
 44        nience, health  and well-being of the  inhabitants  of  the  municipality;
 45        provided,  that  any  improvements  for sanitary sewer facilities shall be
 46        constructed so as to conform with the general rules of the  Idaho  depart-
 47        ment of health and welfare environmental quality;
 48        (4)  To construct, reconstruct, extend, maintain, or repair lines, facili-
 49        ties  and  equipment (other than generating equipment) for street lighting
                                                                        
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  1        purposes or for the expansion or improvement of a  previously  established
  2        municipally-owned electrical distribution system, to a district within the
  3        boundaries of the municipality;
  4        (5)  To  plant,  or  cause  to be planted, set out, cultivate and maintain
  5        lawns, shade trees or other landscaping;
  6        (6)  To cover, fence, safeguard or enclose reservoirs, canals, ditches and
  7        watercourses and to construct, reconstruct, extend, line or reline,  main-
  8        tain  and  repair  waterworks,  reservoirs, canals, ditches, pipes, mains,
  9        hydrants, and other water facilities for the purpose  of  supplying  water
 10        for  domestic,  irrigation  and  fire protection purposes, or any of them;
 11        regulating, controlling or distributing the same and regulating  and  con-
 12        trolling water and watercourses leading into the municipality;
 13        (7)  To  acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, maintain or repair park-
 14        ing lots or other facilities  for  the  parking  of  vehicles  on  or  off
 15        streets;
 16        (8)  To  acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, maintain or repair parks
 17        and other recreational facilities;
 18        (9)  To remove any nonconforming existing facility  or  structure  in  the
 19        areas to be improved;
 20        (10) To  construct,  reconstruct,  extend,  maintain  or  repair  optional
 21        improvements;
 22        (11) To  acquire by purchase, gift, condemnation, or otherwise any real or
 23        personal property within the limits of the municipality as in the judgment
 24        of the council may be necessary or convenient in order to make any of such
 25        improvements or otherwise to carry out the purposes of this chapter;
 26        (12) To make any other improvements now or  hereafter  authorized  by  any
 27        other  law,  the  cost of which in whole or in part can properly be deter-
 28        mined to be of particular benefit to a particular area within the  munici-
 29        pality;
 30        (13) To  construct  and  install  all such structures, equipment and other
 31        items and to do all such other work  and  to  incur  any  such  costs  and
 32        expenses  as  may  be  necessary  or  appropriate  to complete any of such
 33        improvements in a proper manner;
 34        (14) To purchase, build, construct, reconstruct or otherwise improve park-
 35        ing facilities and all other appurtenances necessary to  provide  adequate
 36        off-street  parking, and to that end may acquire real or personal property
 37        by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise, and  may  own,  possess  and
 38        maintain  such  real or personal property within the limits of the munici-
 39        pality as in the judgment of the council may be necessary  and  convenient
 40        for such purposes; and
 41        (15) To acquire, purchase, build, construct or reconstruct irrigation sys-
 42        tems, install underground tiling and cover open irrigation ditches.
 43        (b)  For the purpose of making and paying for all or a part of the cost of
 44    any of such improvements (including optional improvements), the governing body
 45    of a municipality may create local improvement districts within the municipal-
 46    ity,  levy  assessments  on the property within such a district which is bene-
 47    fited by the making of the improvements and issue interim or  registered  war-
 48    rants and local improvement bonds as provided in this chapter.
                                                                        
 49        SECTION  95.  That Section 55-2014, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 50    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 51        55-2014.  TENANT ACTION FOR DAMAGES -- SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE. (1) A  tenant
 52    of  a  mobile  home park may file an action against a landlord for damages and
 53    specific performance for:
                                                                        
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  1        (a)  Failure to maintain in good working order, to the terminal  point  of
  2        service, electrical, water or sewer services supplied by the landlord;
  3        (b)  Maintaining  the  premises  in  a  manner  hazardous to the health or
  4        safety of the tenant, including, but not limited to, a  continuing  viola-
  5        tion of any of the following:
  6             (i)   Any  rule adopted by the department of health and welfare envi-
  7             ronmental quality governing public drinking water systems;
  8             (ii)  Any rule adopted by the department of health and welfare  envi-
  9             ronmental quality governing hazardous waste;
 10             (iii) Any  rule  adopted  by  the public health district in which the
 11             mobile home park is located governing waste water and on-site  sewage
 12             treatment systems;
 13             (iv)  Any  provision of the uniform fire code, as amended by the pro-
 14             visions of any fire code adopted by the  county  or  municipality  in
 15             which the mobile home park is located;
 16             (v)   Any  provision  of the uniform building code, as amended by the
 17             provisions of any building code adopted by the county or municipality
 18             in which the mobile home park is located.
 19        Nothing contained in the provisions of  this  subsection  is  intended  to
 20        extend  the application of any such rule or code provision to a previously
 21        existing condition which, as of July 1, 1993, was exempt from the enforce-
 22        ment of such rule or code provision.
 23        (c)  Failure to return a security deposit as and when required by law;
 24        (d)  Breach of any term or provision of  the  lease  or  rental  agreement
 25        materially  affecting the health and safety of the tenant, whether explic-
 26        itly or implicitly a part thereof.
 27        (2)  Upon filing the complaint, a  summons  must  be  issued,  served  and
 28    returned  as in other actions; provided however, that in an action exclusively
 29    for specific performance, at the time of issuance of the  summons,  the  court
 30    shall  schedule  a  trial  within twelve (12) days from the filing of the com-
 31    plaint, and the service of the summons, complaint and  trial  setting  on  the
 32    defendant  shall  be  not  less  than  five  (5)  days before the day of trial
 33    appointed by the court. If the plaintiff brings an action  for  damages  under
 34    this  section, or combines this action for damages with an action for specific
 35    performance, the early trial provision shall not be applicable, and a  summons
 36    must be issued returnable as in other cases upon filing the complaint.
 37        (3)  In  an  action  under  this section, the plaintiff, in his complaint,
 38    must set forth the facts on which he seeks to recover, describe the  premises,
 39    and  set  forth  any  circumstances  which may have accompanied the failure or
 40    breach by the landlord.
 41        (4)  If, upon the trial, the verdict of the jury, or, if the case be tried
 42    without a jury, the finding of the court, be in favor of the plaintiff against
 43    the defendant, judgment shall be entered for such special damages  as  may  be
 44    proven.  General damages may be awarded but shall not exceed five hundred dol-
 45    lars ($500). Judgment may also be entered requiring specific  performance  for
 46    any  breach  of  agreement  shown by the evidence, and for costs and disburse-
 47    ments.
 48        (5)  Before a tenant shall have standing to file an action under this sec-
 49    tion, he must give his landlord three (3) days' written notice,  listing  each
 50    failure  or  breach  upon which his action will be premised and written demand
 51    requiring performance or cure. If, within three (3) days after service of  the
 52    notice,  any  listed  failure or breach has not been performed or cured by the
 53    landlord, the tenant may proceed to commence an action for  damages  and  spe-
 54    cific performance.
 55        (6)  The notice required in subsection (5) of this section shall be served
                                                                        
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  1    either:
  2        (a)  By delivering a copy to the landlord or his agent personally; or
  3        (b)  If  the landlord or his agent is absent from his usual place of busi-
  4        ness, by leaving a copy with an employee at the usual place of business of
  5        the landlord or his agent; or
  6        (c)  By sending a copy of the notice to the landlord or his agent by  cer-
  7        tified mail, return receipt requested.
                                                                        
  8        SECTION  96.  That Section 55-2714, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  9    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 10        55-2714.  TENANT ACTION FOR DAMAGES -- SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE. (1) A  tenant
 11    of  a  floating  home marina may file an action against a landlord for damages
 12    and specific performance for:
 13        (a)  Failure to maintain in good working order, to the terminal  point  of
 14        service, electrical, water or sewer services supplied by the landlord;
 15        (b)  Maintaining  those portions of the premises open to use by the tenant
 16        in a manner hazardous to the health or safety of the tenant including, but
 17        not limited to, a continuing violation of any of the following:
 18             (i)   Any rule adopted by the department of health and welfare  envi-
 19             ronmental quality governing public drinking water systems;
 20             (ii)  Any  rule adopted by the department of health and welfare envi-
 21             ronmental quality governing hazardous waste;
 22             (iii) Any rule adopted by the public health  district  in  which  the
 23             floating home marina is located governing wastewater and on-site sew-
 24             age treatment systems;
 25             (iv)  Any provisions of the uniform fire code, as amended by the pro-
 26             visions of a fire code adopted by the county or municipality in which
 27             the floating home marina is located;
 28             (v)   Any  provisions of the uniform building code, as amended by the
 29             provisions of any building code  adopted  by  the  state,  county  or
 30             municipality in which the floating home marina is located.
 31        (c)  Material breach of any specific term of a rental agreement.
 32        (2)  Upon  filing  the  complaint,  a  summons  must be issued, served and
 33    returned as in other actions. Provided however, that in an action  exclusively
 34    for  specific  performance,  at the time of issuance of the summons, the court
 35    shall schedule a trial within twelve (12) days from the  filing  of  the  com-
 36    plaint,  and  the  service  of the summons, complaint and trial setting on the
 37    defendant shall be not less than  five  (5)  days  before  the  day  of  trial
 38    appointed  by the court. If the plaintiff brings an action for damages with an
 39    action for specific performance, the early trial provision shall not be appli-
 40    cable, and a summons must be issued returnable as in other cases  upon  filing
 41    the complaint.
 42        (3)  In  an  action  under  this section, the plaintiff, in his complaint,
 43    must set forth facts on which he seeks to recover, describe the premises,  and
 44    set  forth  any circumstances which may have accompanied the failure or breach
 45    by the landlord.
 46        (4)  If upon the trial, the verdict of the jury, or, if the case be  tried
 47    without a jury, the finding of the court, be in favor of the plaintiff against
 48    the  defendant,  judgment  shall be entered for such special damages as may be
 49    proven. General damages may be awarded but shall not exceed five hundred  dol-
 50    lars  ($500).  Judgment may also be entered requiring specific performance for
 51    any breach of agreement shown by the evidence and for costs and disbursements.
 52        (5)  Before a tenant shall have standing to file an action under this sec-
 53    tion, he must give his landlord three (3) days' written notice,  listing  each
                                                                        
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  1    failure  or  breach  upon which his action will be premised and written demand
  2    requiring performance or cure. If, within three (3) days after service of  the
  3    notice,  any  listed  failure or breach has not been performed or cured by the
  4    landlord, or in the event of damage to the premises or other default not capa-
  5    ble of cure within three (3) days and the landlord has  not  provided  written
  6    assurance to the tenant that a cure will be effected within a reasonable time,
  7    the  tenant may proceed to commence an action for damages and specific perfor-
  8    mance.
  9        (6)  The notice required in subsection (5) of this section shall be served
 10    either:
 11        (a)  By delivering a copy to the landlord or his agent personally; or
 12        (b)  By leaving a copy with an employee at the usual place of business  of
 13        the  landlord or his agent if the landlord or his agent is absent from his
 14        usual place of business; or
 15        (c)  By sending a copy of the notice to the landlord or his agent by  cer-
 16        tified mail, return receipt requested.
 17        (7)  Nothing  in  this section shall bar either the landlord or the tenant
 18    from bringing such civil action for relief to which said  party  is  otherwise
 19    entitled.
                                                                        
 20        SECTION 97.  That Section 63-3022C, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 21    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 22        63-3022C.  DEDUCTION  FOR  ALTERNATIVE  ENERGY DEVICE AT RESIDENCE. (1) An
 23    individual taxpayer who installs an alternative energy device to serve a place
 24    of residence of the individual taxpayer in the state of Idaho may deduct  from
 25    taxable  income the following amounts actually paid or accrued by the individ-
 26    ual taxpayer: forty percent (40%) of the amount that is properly  attributable
 27    to  the  construction, reconstruction, remodeling, installation or acquisition
 28    of the alternative energy device in the year when such device is completed  or
 29    acquired  and  is  placed in service by the taxpayer; and twenty percent (20%)
 30    per year thereafter for a period of three (3) succeeding years; provided, how-
 31    ever, that said deduction shall not exceed five thousand dollars  ($5,000)  in
 32    any one (1) taxable year.
 33        (2)  An  individual  taxpayer  who  purchases  a residence in the state of
 34    Idaho served by an alternative energy device for which none or less  than  all
 35    of  the  total deduction allowable under this section has been taken, may take
 36    the deduction specified in this section, or the unused balance of  the  deduc-
 37    tion.
 38        (3)  As used in this section, "alternative energy device" means any system
 39    or mechanism or series of mechanisms using solar radiation, wind or geothermal
 40    resource as defined in section 42-4002, Idaho Code, primarily to provide heat-
 41    ing,  to  provide  cooling,  to  produce  electrical power, or any combination
 42    thereof. Alternative energy device includes a fluid to air heat pump operating
 43    on a fluid reservoir heated by solar radiation or geothermal resource.  Alter-
 44    native  energy device shall also include either a natural gas heating unit, or
 45    a propane heating unit, or a wood burning stove which meets the  most  current
 46    environmental  protection  agency certification, or a pellet stove which meets
 47    the most current industry and state standards, and which natural  gas  heating
 48    unit, or propane heating unit, or wood burning stove which meets the most cur-
 49    rent  environmental  protection  agency  certification,  or pellet stove which
 50    meets the most current industry and state standards is used to replace  during
 51    the  same  tax  year a wood burning stove designed for residential heating and
 52    that does not meet environmental protection agency requirements for certifica-
 53    tion, provided the wood burning stove is surrendered to the  division  depart-
                                                                        
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  1    ment  of  environmental quality of the department of health and welfare or its
  2    agent for destruction in accordance with applicable federal and state rules.
                                                                        
  3        SECTION 98.  That Section 63-3024B, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  4    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  5        63-3024B.  INCOME TAX CREDITS. (1) Eligibility for income tax credits. Any
  6    owner of real property who undertakes actions approved pursuant to:
  7        (a)  A total maximum daily load process or  equivalent  processes  as  set
  8        forth in chapter 36, title 39, Idaho Code; or
  9        (b)  A habitat conservation plan for the management of a species listed as
 10        "endangered,"  "threatened,"  or a candidate for such listing as set forth
 11        in the federal endangered species act and approved as provided in the reg-
 12        ulations adopted pursuant to the federal endangered species act; or
 13        (c)  A plan to recover a species listed as  "threatened"  or  "endangered"
 14        pursuant to the federal endangered species act; or
 15        (d)  A plan for fencing recommended for approval by the local soil conser-
 16        vation district that will enhance riparian habitat and water quality shall
 17        be  eligible for income tax credits against individual or corporate income
 18        taxes as set forth in this section.
 19        (2)  Expenditures qualifying for income tax  credits.  Expenditures  which
 20    are  eligible  for  income  tax  credits  as  set  forth in this section shall
 21    include, but not be limited to, those in the following categories:
 22        (a)  Fencing of riparian areas as defined in this chapter to manage  live-
 23        stock grazing;
 24        (b)  Control  of  erosion from natural or human caused sources of sediment
 25        which exist and are  not  otherwise  regulated  under  the  provisions  of
 26        Idaho's water quality management plan;
 27        (c)  Removal  of  barriers  to fish passage and installation of devices to
 28        prevent fish from entering into areas where their ability  to  survive  is
 29        limited;
 30        (d)  Gates  and  fences to control access and which are installed specifi-
 31        cally  to  aid  in  the  management  of  "endangered,"   "threatened"   or
 32        "candidate" species;
 33        (e)  Establishment  of  vegetation  designed  to  improve  habitat or food
 34        sources for "endangered," "threatened," or "candidate" species;
 35        (f)  The mechanical construction or placement of structures to  create  or
 36        improve habitat for "endangered," "threatened," or "candidate" species; or
 37        (g)  Other  improvements or modifications made in order to comply with any
 38        action required as defined in subsection (1) of this section.
 39    The state tax commission, in cooperation with the department of fish and  game
 40    and  other  appropriate  federal  or  state  agencies,  shall develop rules to
 41    describe the specific expenditures eligible for the  income  tax  credits  for
 42    each of the categories described in this section.
 43        (3)  Calculation and application of income tax credits. For those expendi-
 44    tures    eligible  for  income  tax  credits as described in this section, the
 45    credit shall be equal to one-half (1/2) of the eligible expenditures made dur-
 46    ing the course of the taxable year. This amount may be applied as a credit  to
 47    each  person's  total  income tax liability. In no case shall the sum of these
 48    credits exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) for a  single  taxable  year  per
 49    person  and  in  no event shall labor be included in determining the amount of
 50    the tax credit. In the event of transfer of title to lands  where  income  tax
 51    credits  have  been taken, the application of the annual credits from previous
 52    expenditures shall cease, and the new owner of the land shall not be  eligible
 53    to receive any income tax credits that are based upon the expenditures made by
                                                                        
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  1    any previous landowner. In no case shall the credit allowed under this section
  2    exceed the income tax liability of the claimant. For purposes of this section,
  3    a husband and wife filing a single return shall be deemed a single person.
  4        (4)  Review  and  approval  of  qualified  expenditures.  All projects and
  5    expenditures which may be eligible for tax credits as set forth in  this  sec-
  6    tion  shall  be  reviewed  by  the designated agency as defined in chapter 36,
  7    title 39, Idaho Code, and which are appropriate to the nature of  the  project
  8    and  expenditures  for which approval is sought for the income tax credit pro-
  9    vided in this section.  That agency will recommend approval or disapproval  of
 10    the  tax  credits described in this section to a committee which shall include
 11    one (1) representative each from the department of agriculture, the department
 12    of fish and game, the soil conservation commission, and the  division  depart-
 13    ment  of environmental quality, appointed by the administrator or the director
 14    of those agencies or entities, and one (1) representative from private  indus-
 15    try to be appointed by the governor.  This committee, in consultation with the
 16    basin  advisory  groups established in chapter 36, title 39, Idaho Code, shall
 17    have the authority, by majority vote, to approve or  disapprove  all  applica-
 18    tions  for tax credits as described in this section.  In approving an applica-
 19    tion for a tax credit, the committee shall strive to assure a reasonable  dis-
 20    tribution  of approved credits throughout the state and among the parties that
 21    are eligible for the tax credits described in this section. In no  case  shall
 22    the  committee  described  in this section approve, during a year, tax credits
 23    which exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in total.  The com-
 24    mittee shall transmit its minutes and approvals to the state  tax  commission.
 25    The  committee shall notify each owner of real property in writing whether the
 26    owner has been approved, or disapproved for an income tax credit  pursuant  to
 27    this section.
                                                                        
 28        SECTION  99.  That  Section 67-818, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 29    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 30        67-818.  COORDINATION OF POLICY AND PROGRAMS RELATED TO THREATENED SPECIES
 31    AND ENDANGERED SPECIES IN IDAHO. (1) There is hereby created in the office  of
 32    the  governor,  the "Office of Species Conservation." The administrator of the
 33    office of species conservation shall be the official in the  state  designated
 34    to  oversee implementation of federal recovery plans, as provided in 16 U.S.C.
 35    section 1533(f), and to fulfill the  duties  provided  by  this  section.  The
 36    administrator  shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the gover-
 37    nor and shall be subject to confirmation by the state senate.
 38        (2)  The duties of the office of species conservation shall include:
 39        (a)  Coordination of all state departments and divisions with  duties  and
 40        responsibilities affecting endangered species, threatened species and spe-
 41        cies petitioned to be listed;
 42        (b)  Coordinating  state  implementation  and response to federal recovery
 43        plans,  biological opinions, guidance and projects  among  all  state  and
 44        local governments in the state of Idaho;
 45        (c)  Participation in regional efforts to cooperatively address endangered
 46        species and threatened species;
 47        (d)  Providing input and comment to federal and state agencies, and tribes
 48        on  issues relating to endangered species, threatened species, petitioned,
 49        rare and declining species;
 50        (e)  Cooperating and consulting with the departments of fish and game  and
 51        parks  and  recreation  regarding agreements pursuant to 16 U.S.C. section
 52        1535;
 53        (f)  Negotiating agreements with federal  agencies  concerning  endangered
                                                                        
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  1        species, threatened species and candidate species, including, but not lim-
  2        ited  to,  agreements  pursuant to 16 U.S.C. section 1533(d) and 16 U.S.C.
  3        section 1539(a), other than those agreements  negotiated  pursuant  to  16
  4        U.S.C. section 1535;
  5        (g)  Providing  the people of the state of Idaho with an ombudsman who can
  6        listen to citizens being harmed or hindered by the regulations of the  ESA
  7        and direct them to the appropriate state or federal agency and/or speak on
  8        their behalf, as deemed appropriate by the ombudsman, to address issues or
  9        concerns related to the ESA;
 10        (h)  Serve  as  a  repository  for agreements and plans among governmental
 11        entities in the state of Idaho to conserve threatened and endangered  spe-
 12        cies.
 13        (3)  State  policy and management plans developed pursuant to this section
 14    shall be developed in accordance with the following subsections:
 15        (a)  State policy on threatened, endangered  and  petitioned  species  and
 16        state  management plans shall be developed in consultation with the appro-
 17        priate state agencies. The appropriate state agency for wildlife  biologi-
 18        cal  and species management issues is the department of fish and game. The
 19        appropriate state agency for plant life biological and species  management
 20        issues  is  the  department of parks and recreation. The appropriate state
 21        agency for timber harvest activities, oil and gas  exploration  activities
 22        and  for  mining  activities  is  the department of lands. The appropriate
 23        state agencies for agricultural activities are the department of  agricul-
 24        ture  and  the  soil conservation commission. The appropriate state agency
 25        for public road construction is the transportation department. The  appro-
 26        priate state agency for water rights is the department of water resources.
 27        The  appropriate state agency for water quality is the division department
 28        of environmental quality. in the department of  health  and  welfare.  The
 29        appropriate  state  agency  for  outfitting  and guiding activities is the
 30        Idaho outfitters and guides licensing board;
 31        (b)  State management plans shall be the policy of the state of Idaho, but
 32        are subject to legislative approval, amendment or rejection by  concurrent
 33        resolution.  State  management plans shall be subject to public notice and
 34        comment but shall not be subject to judicial review.
 35        (4)  The governor's office of species conservation shall prepare a  report
 36    to  the  legislature recommending a plan to develop state conservation assess-
 37    ments and strategies for rare and declining species in the state of Idaho  and
 38    submit  that report and recommendation to the legislature. The report and rec-
 39    ommendation are subject to legislative approval,  amendment  or  rejection  by
 40    concurrent resolution.
                                                                        
 41        SECTION 100.  That Section 67-2917, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 42    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 43        67-2917.  HAZARDOUS WASTE. Wherever hazardous waste, as defined in section
 44    39-4403,  Idaho  Code, is being transported within the state, within the state
 45    to without the state, or from without the state to within the state, the oper-
 46    ator or owner of the motor vehicle or trailer, as defined in chapter 1,  title
 47    49,  Idaho  Code,  transporting  hazardous waste is hereby required to stop at
 48    such ports of entry or checking stations and submit to inspection or  weighing
 49    for  compliance  with the laws of the state of Idaho. Additionally, such owner
 50    or operator of the motor vehicle or trailer transporting  hazardous  waste  is
 51    hereby  required  and  directed to allow employees of the department of health
 52    and welfare environmental quality, authorized Idaho transportation  department
 53    employees  or  the  state  police  or any peace officer on duty to inspect and
                                                                        
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  1    review all manifests and bills of lading to ensure that such  hazardous  waste
  2    is  being  shipped  in a manner which will not endanger the health, welfare or
  3    safety of the citizens of the state of Idaho and is being shipped  in  compli-
  4    ance  with  the  laws of the state of Idaho and any rules promulgated pursuant
  5    thereto.
                                                                        
  6        SECTION 101.  That Section 67-5303, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  7    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  8        67-5303.  APPLICATION TO STATE EMPLOYEES. All departments of the state  of
  9    Idaho  and  all employees in such departments, except those employees specifi-
 10    cally defined as nonclassified, shall be classified employees, who are subject
 11    to this act chapter and to the system of  personnel  administration  which  it
 12    prescribes. Nonclassified employees shall be:
 13        (a)  Members  of the state legislature and all other officers of the state
 14    of Idaho elected by popular vote, and persons appointed to fill  vacancies  in
 15    elective offices, and employees of the state legislature.
 16        (b)  Members  of statutory boards and commissions and heads of departments
 17    appointed by and serving at the pleasure of  the  governor,  deputy  directors
 18    appointed  by  the  director  and  members  of  advisory  boards  and councils
 19    appointed by the departments.
 20        (c)  All employees and officers in the office, and at  the  residence,  of
 21    the governor; and all employees and officers in the offices of the lieutenant-
 22    governor  lieutenant  governor,  secretary  of  state, attorney general, state
 23    treasurer, state controller, and state superintendent  of  public  instruction
 24    who are appointed on and after the effective date of this act chapter.
 25        (d)  Except  as  otherwise provided by law, not more than one (1) declared
 26    position for each board or commission and/or head of a  participating  depart-
 27    ment  in addition to those declared to be nonclassified by other provisions of
 28    law.
 29        (e)  Part-time professional consultants who are paid on a  fee  basis  for
 30    any  form  of  legal,  medical  or other professional service, and who are not
 31    engaged in the performance of administrative duties for the state.
 32        (f)  Judges, temporary referees, receivers and jurors.
 33        (g)  All employees of the Idaho supreme court and district courts.
 34        (h)  All employees of the Idaho state bar.
 35        (i)  Assistant attorneys general attached to the office  of  the  attorney
 36    general.
 37        (j)  Officers,  members of the teaching staffs of state educational insti-
 38    tutions, the professional staff of the Idaho department of education  adminis-
 39    tered by the board of regents and the board of education, and the professional
 40    staffs  of  the  Idaho  division of professional-technical education and voca-
 41    tional rehabilitation administered by  the  state  board  for    professional-
 42    technical  education.  "Teaching  staff"  includes teachers, coaches, resident
 43    directors, librarians and those principally engaged in academic research.  The
 44    word "officer" means presidents, vice presidents, deans, directors, or employ-
 45    ees in positions designated by the state board who receive an annual salary of
 46    not less than step "A" of the pay grade equivalent to three hundred fifty-five
 47    (355)  Hay points in the state compensation schedule. A nonclassified employee
 48    who is designated as an "officer" on July 5,  1991,  but  does  not  meet  the
 49    requirements  of this subsection, may make a one (1) time irrevocable election
 50    to remain nonclassified. Such an election must be made not later  than  August
 51    2,  1991.  When such positions become vacant, these positions will be reviewed
 52    and designated as either classified or nonclassified in accordance  with  this
 53    subsection.
                                                                        
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  1        (k)  Employees of the military division.
  2        (l)  Patients, inmates or students employed in a state institution.
  3        (m)  Persons  employed  in  positions  established  under  federal grants,
  4    which, by law, restrict employment  eligibility  to  specific  individuals  or
  5    groups  on  the basis of nonmerit selection requirements. Such employees shall
  6    be termed "project exempt" and the tenure of their employment shall be limited
  7    to the length of the project grant, or twenty-four (24) months, or four  thou-
  8    sand  one  hundred sixty (4,160) hours of credited state service, whichever is
  9    of the shortest duration. No person  hired  on  a  project-exempt  appointment
 10    shall be employed in any position allocated to the classified service.
 11        (n)  Temporary employees.
 12        (o)  All  employees  and officers of the following named commodity commis-
 13    sions, and all employees and officers  of  any  commodity  commission  created
 14    hereafter:  the  Idaho potato commission, as provided in chapter 12, title 22,
 15    Idaho Code; the Idaho honey advertising commission, as provided in chapter 28,
 16    title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho bean commission, as provided  in  chapter  29,
 17    title  22,  Idaho Code; the Idaho prune commission, as provided in chapter 30,
 18    title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho hop grower's commission, as provided in  chap-
 19    ter 31, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho wheat commission, as provided in chap-
 20    ter 33, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho pea and lentil commission, as provided
 21    in  chapter  35, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho apple commission, as provided
 22    in chapter 36, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho cherry commission, as  provided
 23    in  chapter  37,  title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho mint grower's commission, as
 24    provided in chapter 38, title 22, Idaho Code; the state board of sheep commis-
 25    sioners, as provided in chapter 1, title  25,  Idaho  Code;  the  state  brand
 26    board,  as  provided in chapter 11, title 25, Idaho Code; the Idaho beef coun-
 27    cil, as provided in chapter 29, title 25, Idaho  Code;  and  the  Idaho  dairy
 28    products commission, as provided in chapter 31, title 25, Idaho Code.
 29        (p)  All inspectors of the fresh fruit and vegetable inspection service of
 30    the  Idaho  department  of agriculture, except those positions involved in the
 31    management of the program.
 32        (q)  All employees of the division of correctional industries  within  the
 33    department of correction.
 34        (r)  All wardens employed by the department of correction.
 35        (s)  All  public  information  positions with the exception of secretarial
 36    positions, in any department.
 37        (t)  Any division administrator.
 38        (u)  Any regional administrator or assistant division administrator in the
 39    division department of environmental protection in the  department  of  health
 40    and welfare quality.
 41        (v)  All employees of the division of financial management.
 42        (w)  All employees of the Idaho food quality assurance institute.
 43        (x)  The  state  appellate  public defender, deputy state appellate public
 44    defenders and all other employees of the office of the state appellate  public
 45    defender.
 46        (y)  All  quality  assurance  specialists  or medical investigators of the
 47    Idaho board of medicine.
                                                                        
 48        SECTION 102.  That Section 67-7502, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 49    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 50        67-7502.  JURISDICTION AND AUTHORITY. This chapter shall apply to all ves-
 51    sels on the waters of and over which the state of Idaho shall  have  jurisdic-
 52    tion.  The  department  of  health and welfare environmental quality is hereby
 53    granted authority to carry out the administration of the  provisions  of  this
                                                                        
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  1    chapter,  and  to  promulgate rules and regulations in compliance with chapter
  2    52, title 67, Idaho Code, to effectuate that purpose.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                           RS 10450C2
This Legislation will provide correct references throughout the
Idaho Code to both the Department of Environmental Quality and
the Board of Environmental Quality, which were created separate
from the Department of Health and Welfare in Senate Bill No.
1426, passed by the Legislature in the 2000 Session.
                          FISCAL IMPACT

There should be no impact on the General Fund or other state
government funds.

Contact
Name: Steve Allred, DEQ 
Phone: 373-0240
Dave Mabe 
373-0314



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