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STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Hayes and Rose
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Introduced in the Senate on March 24, 2011
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Medical Affairs
Summary: Time required by DHEC to notify public of sewage spill
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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3/24/2011 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 4)
3/24/2011 Senate Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs
(Senate Journal-page 4)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 48-1-65 SO AS TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL TO NOTIFY THE PUBLIC WITHIN FORTY EIGHT HOURS OF A SPILL OF DOMESTIC SEWAGE INTO THE WATERS OF THIS STATE THAT EXCEEDS FIVE THOUSAND GALLONS; TO STIPULATE THE FORM AND CONTENT OF THE NOTICE; TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION; AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Title 48 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 48-1-65. (A) The department and any publicly or privately owned treatment works or a publicly owned satellite system treating domestic sewage shall communicate to the public within forty-eight hours of an incident certain details of every spill of domestic sewage into the waters of this State that exceeds five thousand gallons. The department's communication must be in the form of posting to the department's Internet website, and email to electronic and written media. Any communication required by this subsection must include the date of the spill, the approximate location of the spill, the affected body or bodies or water, the entity that owns and operates the facility that generated the spill, the nature of the spill, and the approximate size and the duration of the spill.
(B) Manufacturing facilities that, as an ancillary component of their operations, operate a treatment works treating domestic sewage are exempt from this section.
(C) Any publicly or privately owned treatment works or publicly owned satellite system who violates this section is subject to the penalties provided for in Sections 48-1-320 and 48-1-330."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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