07 LC
25 4792
Senate
Bill 198
By:
Senators Harp of the 29th and Seabaugh of the 28th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 12 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to solid waste
management, so as to provide protection for certain governmentally owned public
drinking water supply intakes or water supply reservoirs; to provide an
effective date; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and
for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Part
1 of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to solid waste management, is
amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows:
"12-8-25.6.
No
new permit for a landfill or modification of an existing permit for the
expansion of a landfill shall be issued if any part of the site for such
landfill is within seven miles upstream of a governmentally owned public
drinking water supply intake or water supply reservoir."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval and shall apply to all applications for new
permits or modifications of existing permits filed on or after such effective
date.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.