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House Engrossed
solid waste; sludge; water quality |
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(now: prohibition; biosolids; land application)
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-sixth Legislature First Regular Session 2023
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HOUSE BILL 2669 |
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An Act
amending section 49-255.03, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to sewage biosolids.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 49-255.03, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
49-255.03. Sewage sludge program; rules and requirements
A. The director shall adopt rules to establish a sewage sludge program that is consistent with the requirements of sections 402 and 405 of the clean water act. Except as otherwise required by this article, the director shall not adopt any requirement that is more stringent than any requirements of the clean water act. The director shall not adopt any requirement that conflicts with any requirement of the clean water act.
B. The rules adopted by the director shall provide for the regulation of all sewage sludge use or disposal practices used in this state.
C. Notwithstanding any other law or rule, except for exceptional quality biosolids, a person may not register to apply to land and may not apply to land a substance that contains biosolids, sewage sludge or septage within three miles of an area with a population density equal to or greater than one hundred twenty-eight persons per square mile or within one mile of a crop produced for human consumption or any property zoned residential.
D. Notwithstanding any other law or rule, the director shall require any land application of a substance that contains biosolids, sewage or septage to comply with the rules established pursuant to subsection A of this section, including pathogen reduction requirements for biosolids.
E. Notwithstanding any other law or rule, a biosolid combined with a solid waste shall be regulated as a solid waste pursuant to chapter 4 of this title.