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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.394 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19990126 Primary Sponsor:Leventis All Sponsors:Leventis, Ravenel, McConnell, Cork, Passailaigue Drafted Document Number:l:\s-res\ppl\001oxyg.whb.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee 01 SANR Subject:Surface waters, Health and Environmental Control Department not to permit quality lowered; Water and Sewer History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 19990126 Introduced, read first time, 01 SANR referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 48-1-82 SO AS TO CODIFY THE WATER QUALITY STANDARD PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED BY DEPARTMENT REGULATION AND THEREBY PREVENT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, FROM PERMITTING OR AUTHORIZING THE QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS TO BE CUMULATIVELY LOWERED MORE THAN 0.1 MG/1 FOR DISSOLVED OXYGEN FROM POINT SOURCES OR OTHER ACTIVITIES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 48-1-82. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where natural conditions alone cause or may cause a depression of dissolved oxygen in surface water below the applicable water quality standard established for that water body, at no time and under no circumstances may the department establish, permit, or authorize the quality of the surface waters to be cumulatively lowered more than 0.1 mg/1 for dissolved oxygen from point sources or other activities."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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