Bill Text: GA SB110 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Waste Management; restrictions on municipal solid waste landfill sites within significant ground-water recharge areas; provisions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-29 - Senate Conference Committee Appointed [SB110 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-SB110-Comm_Sub.html

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12 LC 40 0178S

The House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment offers the following substitute to SB 110:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 12-5-179 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permits and performance bonds for operation of public water systems, so as to require public water suppliers utilizing a waste-water sewer system owned or operated by a county, municipality, or local authority to transmit customer water consumption data to such county, municipality, or local authority; to require public water suppliers to suspend water supply to customers who have failed to pay charges for use of the waste-water sewer system; to provide for exemptions; to amend Code Section 12-8-41 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permitting of land disposal sites receiving waste from septic tank pumping and hauling businesses, so as to extend the date through which such sites operating under a valid permit as of June 30, 2007, may continue to operate; to amend Code Section 31-2A-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of land disposal sites for septic tank waste from one business, so as to provide uniformity; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 12-5-179 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permits and performance bonds for operation of public water systems, is amended by adding a new subsection to read as follows:

"(h)(1) Any public water system within this state supplying water to customers who, incidental to the purchase of such water, utilize a waste-water sewer system owned or operated by a county, municipality, or local authority to dispose of or discharge the water purchased shall furnish to such political subdivision the amount of water consumed by each individually metered customer account during each billing period.

(2) Upon receiving notice from a county, municipality, or local authority described in paragraph (1) of this subsection that a customer has failed to timely pay any charges for the use of the waste-water sewer system, the water supplier shall, within five business days of such notice, suspend water supply to that customer. The water supply to such customer shall remain suspended until such political subdivision notifies the water supplier to resume water service. The water supplier shall be authorized to charge a reasonable fee to the customer for the cost of suspension or resumption of water service.

(3) Nothing in this subsection shall abrogate the provisions of Code Section 36-60-17.

(4) The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to submetered multifamily, multi-industrial, or multicommercial properties."

SECTION 2.

Code Section 12-8-41 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permitting of land disposal sites receiving waste from septic tank pumping and hauling businesses, is amended as follows:

"12-8-41.

The department shall provide by rule or regulation for the regulation and permitting of any land disposal site that receives septic tank waste from any one or more septic tank pumping and hauling businesses. Any new permit issued for such type of site on or after July 1, 2007, shall be issued by the department under this Code section. Any such type of site that as of June 30, 2007, operated under a valid permit issued on or before such date by the Department of Human Resources (now known as the Department of Public Health for these purposes) under Code Section 31-2A-12 may continue to operate under such Code section until July 1, 2012 2014, but a permit shall be obtained from the department under this Code section prior to such date in order to continue such operation thereafter."

SECTION 3.

Code Section 31-2A-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of land disposal sites for septic tank waste from one business, is amended as follows:

"31-2A-12.

Until July 1, 2012 2014, the department shall provide by rule or regulation for the regulation of any land disposal site that receives septic tank waste from only one septic tank pumping and hauling business and which as of June 30, 2007, operated under a valid permit for such activity as issued by the department (previously known as the Department of Human Resources for these purposes) under this Code section. No new permit shall be issued by the department under this Code section for such type of site on or after July 1, 2007, but instead any new permit issued for such type of site on or after such date shall be issued by the Department of Natural Resources under Code Section 12-8-41. This Code section shall stand repealed on July 1, 2012 2014."

SECTION 4.

This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

SECTION 5.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.