Bill Text: AZ HB2483 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Technical correction; supplemental environmental project

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Assigned to House RULES Committee [HB2483 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2019-HB2483-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; supplemental environmental project

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature

First Regular Session

2019

 

 

HB 2483

 

Introduced by

Representative Bowers

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 49‑117, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the department of environmental quality.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 49-117, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE49-117.  Supplemental environmental project; requirements; nexus

A supplemental environmental project that is initiated or accepted by the department shall comply with this section, shall advance at least one of the objectives of the environmental statutes that are the basis of the enforcement action and shall have an adequate nexus.  A nexus exists only if any of the following apply applies.  The proposed project:

1.  Is designed to reduce the likelihood that similar violations will occur in the future.

2.  Reduces the adverse impact to public health or the environment to which the violation contributes.

3.  Reduces the overall risk to public health or the environment potentially affected by the violation. END_STATUTE