H 3824 General Bill, By Canty, G.A. Brown, J. Brown, Cobb-Hunter, Kennedy, W.D. Keyserling, J.T. McElveen, M. McLeod, J.H. Neal, T.F. Rogers, Scott, C.Y. Waites and L.S. Whipper
    A Bill to amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, by adding Chapter 57, Title 44 so as to enact the "Environmental Equity Act of 1993"; to require the Department of Health and Environmental Control to identify environmental high risk areas containing high levels of toxic chemicals; to authorize toxic chemical user fees and to establish a technical assistance grant program; to require the Department to report significant adverse impacts of toxic chemical environmental pollution on human health and to recommend means to correct these adverse impacts; and to require that a facility siting demographic description must be submitted with an applicant seeking approval for siting a toxic chemical facility and that the siting may not be approved if it does not conform to the purposes and requirements of this Chapter.
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04/01/93	House	Introduced and read first time HJ-9
04/01/93	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs HJ-10