Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1547
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 13-11-2-27.3; IC 13-20-2-9.
Synopsis: Landfill proximity to a school. Places restrictions on the
location of a landfill in proximity to a public school classroom building
served by a well as the primary source of drinking water.
Effective: Upon passage.
January 18, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.
Introduced
First Regular Session 114th General Assembly (2005)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1547
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
environmental law.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 13-11-2-27.3; (05)IN1547.1.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 13-11-2-27.3 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA
CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 27.3. "Classroom building",
for purposes of IC 13-20-2-9, means a public school classroom
building served by a well as the primary source of drinking water.
SOURCE: IC 13-20-2-9; (05)IN1547.1.2. -->
SECTION 2. IC 13-20-2-9 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A
NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
UPON PASSAGE]:
Sec. 9. (a) Subject to subsection (b), this section
applies to a landfill for which an application for an original permit
for construction is:
(1) filed after June 30, 2005; or
(2) filed before July 1, 2005, but not granted or denied by the
commissioner before July 1, 2005.
(b) This section does not apply to construction for the expansion
of an existing landfill.
(c) The department may not approve an application for an
original permit for construction of a landfill if the solid waste
boundary of the landfill is proposed to be located within one
thousand (1,000) feet of a classroom building for which
construction is finally approved by the governing body of the
public school before the date of action on the application by the
department. The measurement required by this subsection is made
from the point on the classroom building that is nearest to the solid
waste boundary of the proposed landfill.
(d) The solid waste management board may adopt rules under
IC 4-22-2 for the administration of this section.